Half a million people in Britain do work that, by next spring, a single GPU server can do better. The interesting question is not what happens to them. It is what happens to the rest of us when the bottom rung of the ladder is sawn off.
The Sussex neuroscientist on his new book, on hearing himself misquoted in AI debates, and on why he is increasingly suspicious of the word 'emergent'.
A 1972 IBM System/370 still settles cheques for a private bank in EC2. Photographer Lucy Crewe spent a week with the two engineers who keep it running.
A long-exposure composite from the OPAL programme, captured during last week's opposition window — the ring tilt is the steepest the telescope will see this decade.
Fifteen minutes, no broadcast, no envelopes. The ceremony took longer to plan than to run; the winners had been published in the trades three months earlier.
We argue that inference-time compute should be modelled as orthogonal to parameter count and training compute, and present scaling laws across three model families that support this decomposition.
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