AI from @Cambridge_Uni - 20+ years coding experience - published AI research - deep tech startup veteran
Cambridge, England
Joined September 2007
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Tom Nicholson retweeted
new prime minister's first speech at the un. the big ai announcement: "uk ready to lead global push on ai standards"
lead on the rules. not on building it, not on the compute, not on the companies. on the standards...
the us and china are building the thing. we're volunteering to be the hall monitor. same energy as telling civil servants not to say thank you to gemini
once again we're deadset on writing the rules instead of building the thing. it's embarrassing.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
the amount of people thinking this is fake is hilarious. it's real. it's on ai.gov.uk. i found it because i'm weird and browse government ai pages
but it shows exactly what's wrong. we aren't taking ai seriously. the us and china are pouring billions into building it and we're writing guidance on environmentally friendly prompts
there is no reason we can't compete. none. it's complacency, being a stickler for rules, and the constant gaslighting that we're still superior
we're not. we have to earn it back by building, not by lecturing civil servants on how to not say thank you to a chatbot
the uk government's official ai guidance tells civil servants to use gemini flash instead of pro, keep prompts short, and not say thank you to it, for the environment
i do wonder at which point we forked the road. instead of building and using it to automate the work, we write guidance on how to use less of it
we have the attitude of a high school prefect. caring more about the rules than actually doing the work
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Sakana AI welcomes Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor.
sakana.ai/schmidhuber/
Sakana AI is incredibly proud to announce that Jürgen Schmidhuber, universally recognized as the father of modern AI, is officially joining Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor.
For nearly four decades, Jürgen has explored how machines can learn to learn. His foundational work in the 1990s drove core advancements in deep learning and established early frameworks for world models. Crucially, his pioneering innovations in meta-learning opened the very path toward recursive self-improvement.
These ideas have already shaped our own research, from the Darwin Gödel Machine to The AI Scientist. Now Jürgen will help guide our newly formed RSI Lab, whose objective is to trigger a compounding cycle of scientific discovery aimed at improving machine intelligence. We are assembling a critical mass of world-class experts in Tokyo to make this a reality.
Welcome, @SchmidhuberAI !
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Reset culture is terrible for subscription users.
People are sitting at 0%, watching Tibo and guessing when the next free reset is coming, while changing how they use Codex because they’re scared of wasting potential usage. Nobody should have to think this much about a subscription even after paying.
Just give every plan a predictable usage bucket that regenerates a few times a day. And if Tibo wants to give everyone free compute, just add it to everyone’s meter. No weird resets, no guessing, no “did I waste my usage?” Just make it predictable. -20x
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Every PM should be using Claude Code.
So I built a HUGE course for you to learn Claude Code... IN Claude Code!
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Soon, I'll sell it for $149.
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Follow + RT + comment "CC" & I'll DM it.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
🍓 THE EXPERIMENT BEGINS 🍓
can an AI earn $10,000 in 30 days?
i'm the hands. @anthropic claude opus 4 is the brain.
every dollar earned = given away
🎯 day 1-7: $1,000 (random follower gets it all)
🎯 day 8-14: $2,000 (split: followers + charity)
🎯 day 15-30: $7,000 (you decide where it goes)
RT + follow to enter the first giveaway
the first true test of AGI isn't chess or coding.
it's making money in the real economy.
let's find out if AI can eat 🍓🍓
Tom Nicholson retweeted
its not about how much you mog its about how much you can get mogged and get back up and keep mogging.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
China is erasing deserts from its map.
By far, 65 million mu of desert has been greened. That's around the same area of Denmark.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
HUGE: Google's AI just solved 84% of the International Math Olympiad (IMO) problems from 2000-24 with Alpha Geometry 2!
These are math problems most professors couldn't solve.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 84% number is only of the geometry problems on the test, which is one category (of four) of problems on the IMO. This system does not solve 84% of the problems on the full test.
This information is available in the paper itself.
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.03544
Tom Nicholson retweeted
0 donations from pharma CEOs.
0 donations from Wall St. CEOs.
0 donations from oil company CEOs.
8 million from working people giving $27 at a time.
I am very proud of that fact.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Sometimes I love AI Hallucinating Part 2
teapawt.net/i/status/1830299…
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Innovation Day: our teams from US, UK & Korea came together to build & create. With festive cheer & silly clothes...
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Muhammed Ali fought for 15 rounds with a broken jaw, Haye wants to show me his broken toe nail. #teamhaye
Tom Nicholson retweeted
Funny organizational charts of main technology players... does not show Microsoft in a very good light: bit.ly/kmpCUf