AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Google something, you used to get a link to my website, but now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic.

"there will always be a way to prompt an #AI system to disregard its rules — it’s just a matter of finding it. There is no finite set of guardrails that is universally robust against adversarial prompts" nist.gov/news-events/news/20… An exciting new attack surface in #cybersecurity

Who cares what his rating is? Last year #onpoli had an opportunity to take part in the only poll that matters, and the majority of Ontarians couldn't even be bothered to show up. Caring now doesn't matter after our apathy handed him another unbounded mandate - it's just noise.

In light of recent developments, these are my new forecasts for the next 2-3 years: As the risks rise, most frontier AI companies will be partially publicly owned. AI models will be regulated more strictly, and in most places, safety certification will become mandatory. Having access to advanced AI models will be seen as essential as having access to broadband internet. There won't be massive unemployment, but most white-collar workers will have to reskill. Most text will be AI-written, and human-to-human interactions will be highly valued. No major discoveries yet, but maybe promising results in medicine. I'm hopeful we'll get it right.

What a f***ing stupid ad. youtu.be/ZMvj2_HBKD0?si=KArl…

First of its kind in Canada pressure vessel complete! Using automated fiber placement (AFP), our first linerless Type V cryogenic compatible composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) has been manufactured. This pressure vessel will undergo destructive testing next, before we begin scaling up to orbital sizes this summer at our manufacturing facility. This type of COPV is critical for modern orbital rockets, and reaching this milestone gives our orbital program a significant boost. Together with the National Research Council Canada (@NRC_CNRC), we are advancing research and development on multiple fronts in many firsts for Canada like this one. As part of a major extension this year of our vertically integrated manufacturing capabilities at our Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Lab (AMA Lab), we are bringing in-house large scale robotic Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) systems to manufacture Tundra’s flight tanks and primary structures, while setting the stage to scale to our Tundra and Tempest medium-lift vehicles at the same time. Capabilities to domestically manufacture advanced pressure vessels such as this one will result in the strongest, lightest, safest and most scalable orbital launch vehicles possible for Canada, while also opening new dual-use options for Canadian industry across multiple sectors ranging from aviation and defence, to energy and transportation. Check out the photograph in the comments for the completed COPV, and if you’re interested in advanced space-grade pressure vessels or additively manufactured components for your own applications, get in touch with our team. Ad astra, per aspera ✨ @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc

Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access. That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4. The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity. Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations. Each new GPT-4 essay added much less. The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas. Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge. Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained. This is the real danger of AI in education. Not that students will write worse. That everyone will write the same. * Full paper in the first reply

Here’s a look inside the belly of the beast! The interior of one of the countless in-house metal 3D printed Hadfield-10 combustion chambers we’ve developed over the years, tested and iterated upon. Much of our team is now working on our orbital-class hardware and infrastructure to get Canada to orbit for the first time with our Canadian-made and owned Tundra light-lift and Tundra medium-lift rockets. However, this is the engine that proved we could design, manufacture, test and soon fly liquid rocket engines from scratch, entirely in-house in a commercial setting, at the pace necessary to reach orbit and deliver operational capabilities. With the upcoming launch of Taiga powered by the Hadfield-10, it will be the first commercial liquid rocket to ever launch from Canadian soil. A necessary step towards launching larger rockets at scale with capital efficiency, technical experience, and operational excellence in a truly made-in-Canada sovereign capacity that lasts decades and beyond. The same architecture also retires significant risk for our Tundra rocket, has grown into our in-house talent development program “Rocket League”, and serves as the design for a future kick stage to deliver payloads to higher orbits. The cross sections and interiors of our combustion chambers reveal critical details our team uses to continue to improve designs and processes. Manufacturing precision related to the integrated regenerative cooling channels, combustion and flow characteristics, carbon layers, injector performance, damage and failure modes from off-nominal tests, etc. That knowledge now flows directly into our patent pending turbopump fed Hadfield orbital-class engine, the most powerful rocket engine in Canadian history. Designed to power our Tundra light-lift and Tundra medium-lift rockets, architected from day one to grow to the thrust levels required for our reusable Tempest (formerly referred to as “Titan”) medium-lift vehicle targeting 5,000 kg to LEO. All while striking the right balance between performance, scalability, heritage, and speed of development to meet the Government of Canada’s targets. Ad astra per aspera 🚀🇨🇦 @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc @Transport_gc

Toronto Police Service-Unprecedented SMS Blaster Arrests tps.ca/media-centre/stories/… Turn off 2G if your phone allows it and be cautious with any unexpected texts.

"this METR graph is even scarier than the CO2 graph Al Gore showed us. Because this line is climbing far steeper. Here, ‘off the charts’ is not 50 years away, but 5 years away" rutgerbregman.substack.com/p…

At @ILA_Berlin, we introduce the Airbus U145: an uncrewed, fully autonomous variant of the H145. Optimised for cargo with no cockpit, an integrated nose door, and full autonomy, its first flight is set for late 2026.

#Canada does not have an equivalent of the U.S. K‑12 #Cybersecurity GCC. Some parallel pieces: -a national cyber strategy -a central cyber agency (Cyber Centre) -few inconsistent provincial K‑12 cyber initiatives ed.gov/teaching-and-administ… Not very efficient @CanadianPM #cdnpoli

The installation of Canada’s 31st Governor General is happening today! Tune in at 10 a.m. (ET) on @CdnHeritage's YouTube Channel: youtube.com/live/1fg_bpzyTE4…

The "Messy Middle" open.substack.com/pub/mollyk… I would only add that this fragile tech-stack will be begging for abuse from digital sabots thrown by disenfranchised humans who work just fine when the power is off and connectivity gone.

AI for All. 🇨🇦 L’IA pour tous.

There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.

Last night, the House chose to stand with Ukraine, and I was proud to cast my vote. We passed military and reconstruction aid for Ukraine, plus hard new sanctions on Russia. We did it over the objections of Mike Johnson and Republican leadership, who spent over a year trying to keep this bill from ever hitting the floor. Eighteen Republicans crossed the aisle and did the right thing. Why does this matter? Because when a giant authoritarian state invades a smaller democracy, there is no gray area. There is no “both sides.” Vladimir Putin is a thug. He started an unprovoked war. He flattened cities. He stole children from their families. Helping Ukraine isn’t charity. It’s the test of whether we still mean a single word we say about freedom. I heard every excuse. The war’s winding down, they said, so let’s wait and see. Nonsense. You don’t strengthen a democracy by going wobbly the second things get hard. You don’t stop the next invasion by telling the world American resolve comes with an expiration date. Putin is watching. So is every dictator who dreams of taking what isn’t his by force. This bill still has to clear the Senate and survive a presidential signature. The odds are long. But the House did its job. And we said it plainly: no country gets swallowed whole just because a tyrant wants it. I’ll keep fighting to see this through. Ukraine’s fight is our fight, and we do not abandon our friends. ms.now/news/house-passes-ukr…

The most crucial aspect of our AI strategy is to ensure that it is safe and works for all Canadians.