20th May 2026 - links

 Some links:  When there was no handy paper or vellum to write on around, people drew on rocks.  Patiently picking at the rock till their truth was revealed.  I wonder what it says about the human race? A need to be remembered or a need to create.    The Smell of Water – Dark and True and Tender is the North

When AI went wrong.  There is a reasonable fear about the introduction of this many headed monster, and a rather succinct, but very long, essay notes the fact that American students are beginning to see that AI is not going to find them jobs in the future.  So in some colleges when the subject is brought up, especially at the point when they receive their degrees they boo loudly the speakers who are in favour of IA.  There is a funny video at the end of this link, when AI forgets a host of student names and there is a great flap on the stage as they rearrange for those forgotten.  They go on  to name the students who have obtained their degrees successfully, in the usual manner of a queue.

Superintelligent AI: An Extinction Risk to Humanity | ControlAI  Well interestingly enough that link doesn't go back to the original article in my email, but I shall leave it there.  Perhaps AI is worrying about itself ;)

We are in that political stage at the moment when upstarts (Streeting and Burnham) are trying to pull down the present incumbent of our government, the Prime Minister, Starmer,  A helpful Labour MP has stepped down in his constituency of Makerfield to allow Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham to stand. This by the way leaves the Green Party in a quandary, if they field a candidate, would it break up the vote allowing Reform Party to get in. 

 Brave men, it could mean the ending of careers, should Burnham stop in his successful role as Mayor of Manchester to throw his hat in the ring for Prime minister? Alistair Stewart soothes one's brow ;) Burnham, Streeting & the Fight to Be Prime Minister, and who would want the job anyway ??

My algorithms read me as a person who love golden retrievers and their funny ways, so in actual fact somewhere in the future the golden dog might be ruling us with their gentle, kind ways, you never know.

Gandalph the Great