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Jack Hardinges @jhardinges
Joined January 2015
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Jack Hardinges@jhardinges
5 Aug 2024
📣 Introducing the eight initiatives now supported by the Data Empowerment Fund. It's a great group, empowering people with data to tackle the climate crisis, advocate for fair work, govern artificial intelligence and address other critical challenges: dataempowerment.fund/#initia…

Data Empowerment Fund

The purpose of the Data Empowerment Fund is to support a diverse set of initiatives that enable greater individual agency or community control over data.

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Francis Evans 🇺🇦@francis_evans
Feb 24
Replying to @thomasforth
This was my favourite, in a crowded field
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'Relationships are complicated! An analysis of relationships between datasets on the Web' research.google/blog/relatio…

Relationships are complicated! An analysis of relationships between datasets on the Web

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I'm trying to keep track of the different tools springing up to enable web users to control use of their data/content. Dark Visitors is a new one to me: darkvisitors.com/
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Nikolay Kukushkin
@niko_kukushkin
7 Nov 2024
We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in @NatureComms shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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I find the disconnect between discourses like 'data can't/shouldn't be financially valued' vs the ongoing practice of pricing and charging for data access quite confusing. eg circular discussions on NHS data vs CPRD charging, right now, £360k pa, for access to primary care data
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Christopher Miller
@ChristopherJM
6 Nov 2024
This chart... via @FT ft.com/content/392e1e79-a8c1…
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I like the way @OpenFutureEU's new report describes the different policy issues discourses around 'digital public infrastructure' openfuture.eu/blog/mapping-t…
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Joe Tidy BBC News@joetidy
31 Oct 2024
Organiser Charles Anderson takes to the stage. Says he’s only had 2 hours sleep in 48hrs since they announced this event. Been bombarded with calls from all over the world. He also claims to have invented ‘energy recovery systems’ in cars. And the show Britain’s Got Talent.
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Giles Wilkes@Gilesyb
31 Oct 2024
oh ffs (puts a new pot of coffee on)
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"the Model Openness Framework (MOF), a three-tiered ranked classification system that rates machine learning models based on their completeness and openness, following open science principles" arxiv.org/abs/2403.13784

The Model Openness Framework: Promoting Completeness and Openness...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers numerous opportunities for research and innovation, but its commercialization has raised concerns about the transparency and safety of frontier AI...

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"Silicon Valley.. [has] retreated into.. dealings that 'blur the lines between doing business and doing philanthropy'" ft.com/content/cf186d7a-ee0f…

The tech entrepreneurs translating their business success to philanthropy

This new class of wealthy elite is shaking up the charitable world with their start-up mentality and technical expertise

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"the Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS), led by the University of York, will be aimed at empowering citizens to take control of their own data and share it safely with researchers.. initially focusing on 90k donations from video game users" ukauthority.com/articles/sma…

Smart Data Research announces £22 million investment | UKAuthority

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Nathan Schneider@ntnsndr
24 Oct 2024
The Collective Intelligence Project has been doing incredible work lately with bringing democratic practices to AI, incl. w/ OpenAI and Anthropic. I've joined them to take this work one step further: bringing democracy into companies themselves. Read here: ...
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Shit Nonprofits Say@nonprofitssay
23 Oct 2024
While this is obviously a great idea that will have immediate positive impact, we have decided to postpone implementation until we know for sure if it can scale.
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'From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for Information Management'... from 2005! (via @agentGav) sigmodrecord.org/publication…
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"Instead of alignment with the preferences of a human user, developer, or humanity-writ-large, AI systems should be aligned with normative standards appropriate to their social roles, such as the role of a general-purpose assistant" arxiv.org/abs/2408.16984

Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment

The dominant practice of AI alignment assumes (1) that preferences are an adequate representation of human values, (2) that human rationality can be understood in terms of maximizing the...

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not really sure why the copyright training data issue is so much more contentious here in the UK than it seems to be in the EU, where the AI Act basically points to existing (*opt out*) text and data mining provisions in the copyright directive ft.com/content/26bc3de1-af90…

UK to consult on ‘opt-out’ model for AI content-scraping in blow to publishers

Critics argue such a system would lead to widespread theft of copyrighted material without remuneration

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"Fair Source Software (FSS): - is publicly available to read. - allows use, modification, and redistribution with minimal restrictions to protect the producer’s business model. - undergoes delayed Open Source publication." fair.io/about/
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"the go-to model for many ['commercial open source'] businesses has come to be known as 'open core', where the core functionality of the software is open source, but a significant portion of the utility is locked behind a paywall" techcrunch.com/2024/10/20/jo…

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"'Open Source Software Capital does not invest in open source. We manage money for people to multiply their investment, and make them tons more money'.. Buried in amongst all this is a bet — a big bet — that open core will ultimately win out over pure proprietary"
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