Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I imagine the horror on Pinker's face is the realisation that someone's mistaken him for Thomas Kuhn and he doesn't know the answer 080 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just got myself a ticket to see the new Musk documentary 010 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And if you want a distraction for AI's existential risk, try spending some time with mirror life 260 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That'll be the "rouge AI" we've heard so much about 2172 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Please watch the play, not whatever this is... 100 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026First day of term, and my t-shirt is raising questions not answered by my t-shirt 040 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also, for @stsucl.bsky.social, it's nice to see Gordon Square play its part. Keynes's house - one of the main sets - is opposite our office 010 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sam Altman: We shouldn't treat AI Safety only as an engineering problem... Go on... 110 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI safety debate update. "Safety is an engineering problem" 210 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026An oddly retro-futurist week, seeing Public Service Broadcasting, then the New Scientist birthday party 030 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Apparently they stopped selling swordsticks in the 80s. Boo. 050 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On my way to the government’s expert advisory panel on self-driving vehicles. Passed this guy, stopped in a pedestrian crossing. Oops. 3334 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He had written earlier, in a playful book (The Scientist Speculates), about the "social implications of artificial intelligence" (1962). Superintelligence by 1978, costing about 500 million dollars (with a margin of error, of course). gwern.net/doc/ai/1962-... 031 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Good's (1965) Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine birthed a few stubborn ideas - the technological singularity, AI as "the last invention that man need ever make" and the "intelligence explosion". He was a Bletchley man, Turing colleague and adviser to Kubrick's 2001. 2147 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today is the 50th birthday of my favourite album. I even like the bonkers one about living past 200 on Saturn. 4100 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And if you ask an advanced reasoning model to do it, it pretty much just can (Luxembourg a bit weird...) 100 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Still getting things wrong (Bbulgaria), but not in a funny way 100 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Particle physicists couldn't have anticipated when they named quarks that it would eventually lead to this ridiculous standfirst 240 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Altman raises the NTSB here. They are constituted to learn, rather than to blame. They have a motto: "anybody’s accident is everybody’s accident". It works for well-regulated industries, including medicine. For unregulated ones, it could be seen as letting everyone off the hook 1120 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The "culture" of accident reporting came about through regulation, in the face of massive opposition from airlines. The companies are forced to share their data and have their failures investigated independently. 36727 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This one includes an Uber driver asking me if it’s driverless 100 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Maybe I'm Latour-brained, but I think it's a mistake to read graphs like this as data. It's an illustration, no? 040 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The setting for @easst.bsky.social is replete with autonomous vehicles, divorced from their infrastructures. Bit sad. 141 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Erm. Paula Abdul (and physics) would beg to differ @christianwolmar.bsky.social 171 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They’re still at it. More staying power than those racists 070 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026… a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt etc etc 190 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I’ve gone in search of that group of cosplaying men with a perverse idea of national pride who are holding up traffic. I think I’ve found them 916927 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What are we supposed to make of their failures? Their designers have made them so they can run, but not so they can stop. It's not long before some people will start talking about robot cruelty in the way they talk about animal cruelty. 2171 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's lazy anthropomorphism, expecting us to care because we're used to seeing humans doing these things. It draws attention to an imagined innovation 'race'. But, if we're expected to care about and humanise these things and their successes... 2282 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There's an argument that humanoid robots will be general purpose and therefore useful. I don't buy it. This is pure theatre. These olympian robots aren't being asked to do useful things. 5464 0
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Humanoid Olympics. I have THOUGHTS. On robotic performance, the performance of robotics and collective narratives 2265 0