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Gian M. Volpicelli
@Gmvolpi
covering AI & emerging tech - send me tips: gmvolpicelli@politico.eu - nihilism, sax & kombucha
Brusselspolitico.eu/staff/gian-vol…Joined December 2009

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for years, whenever someone asked what type of music I liked, I shrugged and said "dunno." but by analysing my fav playlists I have concluded that I *do* like two genres in particular. I love jazz and indie. it's not that I don't like music: I just have obnoxious tastes.
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Calling all misinfo researchers: My DMs are open if you want to chat. Unclear if this affect researcher access, too. — can you clarify (given your press team is non-existent)? In short: Twitter cutting down (free) data access just when it's needed most. Fun.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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end of an era. bye bye silicon roundabout
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After a decade transforming UK tech, Tech Nation announces it will cease operations and seek to transfer its assets, following termination of its core government grant funding hubs.ly/Q01zKxSn0 #WeAreTechNation #UKTech #scaleups
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Very excited to announce there’s a wind of change for me and the . I’ll be joining in a unique hybrid position that will straddle the best of independent and “mainstream” media.
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**PRESS RELEASE** POLITICO hires Izabella Kaminska — @izakaminska — as Senior Finance Editor in Europe. Full press release below 👇 bit.ly/40jFHRI
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Not to mention that in its latest version chatgpt has become a prudish, annoying, moralising bore
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ChatGPT lies, all the time, about everything, because there is nothing inherent about a statistical model that predicts what human sentences and paragraphs sound like that entails the ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
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LLMs have no physical intuition as they are trained exclusively on text. They may correctly answer physical intuition questions *if* they can retrieve answers to similar questions from their vast associative memory. But they may get the answer *completely* wrong 1/
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hear hear
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Guys, I have it. The ultimate Belgian customer service story. It has a telecom provider, two distinct fuckups, casual threats of legal action, *and* BPost! It's also a lesson in how you need privilege to avoid paying incorrect fees. This is not good, obviously. Strap in.
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Not sure what triggered this but wtf
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Forwarding this on behalf of Nick Bostrom since he’s not active on Twitter. He wants to explain his views and publicly apologize for an old email that somebody might put out to damage him. nickbostrom.com/oldemail.pdf
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The IDW discourse is out of control this morning (this all started when AI researcher/podcaster Fridman posted a kinda-basic reading list)
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