Senior Journalist with @BBCScotlandNews ✍🏻 🎥 📻 | Interested in Tech/Innovation/Arts/Culture | Musician 🎵 | Love a good book 📚 | [email protected]
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I've been off for a few weeks, and while I was away BBC News published my explainer on a story that is not going away - the issue of data centres in Scotland.
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OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
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I joined Martin Geissler and Joe Tidy on Scotcast to talk about data centres in Scotland, and the wider debate about AI - and what it could mean for all of us in the future.
You can watch it now on the BBC iPlayer.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
It was a pleasure to join Martin Geissler and Joe Tidy on this episode of Scotcast to talk about data centres in Scotland, and the wider debate about AI - and what it could mean for all of us.
Our AI future: have we lost control?
Martin Geissler asks can we get control of AI growth and what is going on with the data centre debate?
Listen to Scotcast: bbc.in/3UItJCR
Graham Fraser retweeted
“You just said that 10% doesn’t seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans”
“Yes”
“Wow… oh my God.”
@vicderbyshire speaks to Nobel Prize Winner and so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton about predictions by an Anthropic researcher that there’s a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade.
#Newsnight
Graham Fraser retweeted
“We have two possible futures...one future is very good and one future is very bad.”
Nobel prize winner and so-called 'Godfather of artificial intelligence', Geoffrey Hinton, issues advice for world leaders on AI.
#Newsnight
I had fun making this one 🌌
Some cool tech, and great to see a team from Edinburgh having a prominent role in this international project.
How a new bit of space tech could change the way scientists see the stars and the history of our galaxy
See more stories from Scotland ➡️ bbc.in/4xuASoC
World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
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Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games
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The Scottish government has announced new planning rules for data centres
- Developments exceeding 50 megawatts will need to be considered by ministers
- Proposed data centre in Edinburgh has been recalled
gov.scot/news/data-centre-pl…
Midnight social media curfew proposed for UK teens aged 16 and 17
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Graham Fraser retweeted
Banned swimmer's twin daughters to realise family's Commonwealth Games dream in Glasgow
Read more about this story ➡️ bbc.in/4vB6W9q
Exclusive - Banned swimmer's daughters to realise family's Commonwealth Games dream in Glasgow.
Thank you to Annette Cowley Nel, Georgia Nel and Olivia Nel for sharing their story with me.
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Exclusive - Construction work has started on the UK's new £750m national supercomputer. It will be on the outskirts of Penicuik/Roslin, near the institute where Dolly the sheep was cloned. It will be able to make a billion - billion calculations per second
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39y…
It is not just the Tartan Army who are looking forward to tonight’s game at the World Cup.
There are about 2,000-3,000 people of Moroccan descent in Scotland, and they are also gearing up for the match.
My piece for Reporting Scotland on the BBC.
Follow all the latest from the World Cup
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Friends and family of Donny Strathie, a 76-year-old Scotland fan who died at a hotel in Boston, plan to remember him with a minute's applause during Scotland's World Cup game against Morocco.
My piece for @BBCNews
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Age verification for 16-year-olds - how will it work?
My post for the BBC News live page, following the ban of social media for under-16s in the UK.
Follow all the latest analysis and updates:
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When will the social media ban start for under 16s in the UK, and which apps will be affected?
Article by Liv McMahon and Duncan Walker
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