Most AI Is Now Written by AI

Most AI Is Now Written by AI

What? Most AI Is Now Written by AI? This supercharges AI development by orders of magnitude PATRICK WOOD For the better part of the last two years, I have been tracking what appeared to be a reasonably predictable pattern in AI development: a doubling of capability roughly every 3.5 months. That figure came from METR’s…

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NHS Waiting Times

NHS Waiting Times

The waiting list illusion is over. CARL HENEGHAN, TOM JEFFERSON The illusion that the backlog had been brought under control has lasted barely long enough for the congratulatory speeches to be delivered. Share There was a time, not so long ago, when a Wes Streeting ministerial victory lap greeted every NHS waiting list release. A…

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Labour’s Gagging Acts

Pitt’s anti-radical legislation was designed to preserve elite power, control the public narrative, and protect the lower orders from ideas — what we now call misinformation — reckoned likely to lead them astray. The intent of these laws and the fears they were enacted to allay shed considerable light on Labour’s own attempts at gagging…

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