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  Can I get some advice? Every time an application gives me a “summarise this” or “ask rovo” or whatever AI button that I never asked for, should I just click it? That’s gonna cost them some money, and that’s the only thing they understand. Can we burn these arses tokens faster than they burn the planet?

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  Just opened my Easter #whisky order. I’d tossed a coin and included a Thomson Bros Mystery Malt. It cost £60. The Thomson chaps aren’t going to sell you rubbish, but you might get an interesting five year old worth half the price. I got lucky - a Tullibardine 19yo. And oh it’s lovely. Can’t nail down the taste completely, but it’s subtle - not an Oloroso cosh for once.

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  Radio 4’s Artificial Human programme has just wound up a three-parter on the AI bubble. It’s worth a listen for the interview with Gary Marcus at the end (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus). Listen at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002r3n3?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

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  So, half a century ago we got Earthrise, an image that reset humanity’s view of its place in the universe. Now, seen with the perspective of a million kilometres, the earth is setting. Right now it feels like Earthset is all we have been aiming at for the intervening 56 years. The Earth will rise again. It does not care if we are here to celebrate. Are people looking at that amazing image and thinking that? Or thinking “It’s probably AI”?