Dr Keith Wilson 💭

Everyone who's been paying attention to the tech industry.

The biggest scandal of all is that we still have the Tory guidance in place and staff still have no ffp3 respirators for an airborne virus that is vascular in nature and can cause heart damage & blood clots.

The year is 2026. Airline systems still cannot handle middle names.

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

This is so absolutely predictable:

‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language s...

Stephen Wolfram’s article on this is good, though it gets a bit technical. writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...

Finished the week on a high: an extended lecture on the problem of consciousness and epiphenomenal qualia. The students even gave me a round of applause, so I guess they liked it (or maybe they were just glad to get out into the sunshine). Either way, bring on the weekend! 🥳 🍷

Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least

Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least
The productive engine of philosophy depends on novelty and difference. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded.
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/03/phil...

Yes. My only complaint is that they’re a bit chunky. But that will hopefully addressed in the next generation which is rumoured to use a 2nm process for better power efficiency, and an OLED display, allowing a slimmer profile. I’d better start saving… 😅

Sorry to hear that, Pete. I know from bitter experience that it’s an incredibly draining and unpleasant process, and usually something of a lottery given the number of people who apply. There’s a limit to how much of it one can take. 😟

“What the Trump administration did as soon as it took office was put an incompetent Secretary of Defense in charge and [then] fired senior officers who were excellent” #Trumpland #USCorruption

This is an insult to baby penguins.

AI: *bombs a hospital*
AI ETHICS: It's also more likely to assume a doctor must be a man and a nurse must be a woman :((

#GenAI #Anthropic #ResistAI

"AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such"

unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live

Qatar's energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could "bring down the economies of the world", predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel. Saad al-Kaabi told the FT that even if the war ended immediately it would take Qatar "weeks to months" to return to a normal cycle of deliveries following an Iranian drone strike at its largest liquefied natural gas plant. Qatar, the world's second-largest producer of LNG, was forced to declare force majeure this week after the strike at its Ras Lattan plant. While Qatar only exports a small proportion of its gas to Europe, the energy minister said the continent would feel significant pain as Asian buyers outbid Europeans for whatever gas is available on the market, and as other Gulf countries find themselves unable to meet their contractual obligations.

The Iran War could “bring down the economies of the world”, Qatar’s Energy Minister tells the FT.

That’s exactly right. But people should also know that #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Palantir are facilitating and cooperating with the US military in this capacity.

Imo it's a mistake to blame the AI. Gives up all the key ground for nothing. The people are culpable, and they cannot be allowed to shed responsibility to the AI. AI got it wrong? Of course it did, and the people who let the AI decide are 100% culpable

It seems that @bstat.app is no more. The site hasn’t been updated for nearly a month. Pity, as it was a nice way of tracking #Bluesky engagement. Is there something similar that people would recommend? bstat.app

#Ireland has the stupidest housing laws… 🙄

"Microsoft Products are too good to phase out in Europe"

MS Office: Can't wordcount subsections, randomly switches to US English, miscorrects grammar, ...

Reminds me of the part in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where a civilisation rids itself of middle management and bullshit job like ‘telephone sanistiser’ only to be wiped out by a disease contracted from a dirty telephone. Be careful what you wish for!

The probabilistic nature of these mechanisms, like the likelihood of ‘hallucinations’, means that these techniques will never be totally reliable. There are always workarounds.

Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core C...

#AppleSilicon continues to impress. The top of the line #MacBookPro now outperforms the fastest desktop computer #Apple has ever designed. It’ll cost you though. www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/m...

Yep. 😳

the AILG should not be encouraging councillors to use genAI, let alone giving seminars on it

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...