Jon Mason

today's completely unsurprising news.

this ban was never about child safety anyway. it was about getting australians to face scan for internet access so tech corps could harvest the data - which then by used for facial recognition in surveillance systems.

same reason the uk wants to do it.

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race

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Morning beach colours

The beach this evening

Cockatoos in Aldinga, South Australia

Low tide

The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

#aied #education #edusky #academicsky

humanstatement.org

Clouds

Another 4Cs … still about #curriculum but not 21st century skills #teaching

#aied #metaphor
The illusion of thinking … & Large Reasoning Models

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beach moments giving
some daily solace

I’m in Darwin, in the north of Australia!

Looks like my beach! 🙂

The beach today
moments
now blown away

The true cost of the AUKUS agreement

Albanese's silence in response to Trump's actions is understandable. In the short term, it may even feel prudent and arguably in Australia’s immediate interest, but caution can easily be interpreted as indulgence and, over time, can harden into habit. satpa.pe/cHOrzxT

Lines in the sand …

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human eva...

New OpenScholar LLM outperforms on lit reviews

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)” In 2016, Laurie Anderson recreated the experience of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music in Saint Mark’s chapel in Brighton.

Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)”

The beach today

… I miss the smell …

#TheWeekinData: Chatbot chat
*Barnsley becomes first UK “tech town”
*Social media for chatbots
*Marginal gains. Ouch!
Silicon Valley. Shenzhen. Barnsley. Previously famous for coal mining, a lamb chop and Kes, Barnsley is to be catapulted into the tech firmament.
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Secretary-General's Press Conference on the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence Good afternoon to all of you.Today, we are taking an important step to help ensure Artificial Intelligence serves all of humanity. I have just submitted for the consideration of the General Assembly a list of 40 distinguished individuals from every region to serve on the new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.

“AI is moving at the speed of light. No country can see the full picture alone.”

40 experts will lead a fully independent scientific panel to build shared evidence on AI’s real-world impacts, while informing guardrails, cooperation, and innovation for the common good.

https://ow.ly/Iyo150Y9lVx

Once were homes …

sure, probably even further back in history. The thing is the "21st century skills" agenda has dominated the conversation in education in recent times & needs a refresh. In a sense this framework is not complete or adequate if we think we need to make things explicit about digital tech. Agency ...

liking the reframing of "human skills" relevant for now - am finding the "21st C skills" agenda needing a rethink

#research #opendata