Ken Nickerson
@kcnickerson
Maker, Coder, Hacker, MaveriX, XanaduAI, SealedCH, HorizonIO, CDL, Synaptrain, xdTaz, xOmers, xFlixel, xRthm, xKobo, xOpenCola, xMicrosoft, xRogers, xBanks, Xs
Call me Ishmael. or What I did (wrote) on my summer vacation ;> link.medium.com/5CBuHo4ZjZ #read #paper #future #war
Every UK household this morning now that the Online Safety Act has come into effect
obese rats everywhere, rejoice! @medical_xpress #obesity #ozympic #health medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-b…
that thing, when you confuse the sandbox for the (kitten's) litter box ;> @sandboxaq @theinformation #chaching #chargeit theinformation.com/articles/lavis…
it's finally happened, robotics and ai are demanding human blood! ;> #health #blood magicnurse.net
Last seen somewhere over the Amazon ;> @amazon @theverge #space #climate theverge.com/news/703091/me…
Censorship = Wilful Ignorance @canada @reclaimthenethq #censorship #privacy reclaimthenet.org/canada-online-…
In my recent talk at the Upperbound conference, I included a slide in which I tried to be a realist about the arrival of AI, setting aside what we might want to happen or what we might fear will happen, and just ask what _will_ happen (as in John Mearsheimer's "realist" school of…
the lights are on, but no one's home. - "useful work" IF trusted (verified), but this is not the path to AGI, no matter how many $T invested. "These are not the droids we are looking for" ;> Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models - arxiv.org/abs/2506.21521 #llm #gpt #ai
Superheros gathered today at Creative Destruction Lab's "Super Session" for a deep-neural discussion on the future of AI ;> @creativedlab @rotmanschool @uoft @canada #ai #cdl
Exclusive: Policies to keep quantum companies in Canada are coming soon, Solomon says. thelogic.co/news/exclusive…
.@XanaduAI opened its new $10M advanced photonic packaging facility in downtown Toronto yesterday. 🔗👇 🧵1/3
Fake it when you make it? @bloomberg @louisvuitton #fake #clone bloomberg.com/news/features/…
First meeting photo with Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Dave Cutler by Mark Russinovich causes a zero-day like glitch in the matrix ;> @billgates @linus__torvalds #davecutler @davepl1968 @microsoft @linux #glitch #matrix
LLMs are 'dumber-than-a-bag-of-hammers' and will remain 'mostly harmless' from any AGI perspective because, they are a statistical parrots sans agency. they are however able to displace 50% of all labor (2030) / 95% of all labor (2040) so, upside ;> #ai #agi #labor #joverc
AI Sing Along! "It's a Law World after all, it's a Law World after all, it's..." @disney @midjourney #ai #content #legal courtlistener.com/docket/7051315…
the ultimate outcome for SPACs (pump-n-dump) - IONQ CEO Niccolo de Masi sells full $103 million in stock. @ionq_inc #ionq #spac #quantum citizenwatchreport.com/ionq-ceo-nicco…
“What is real? How do you define real?” - Morpheus @sealedch #real #ai
thanks to the all-new 'AI Enhanced' Swarovski binoculars, i'm seeing birds that no one has spotted in years! #ai #birds #ornithology #dodo #truelies @margaretatwood
after Disney bought out Star Wars from George Lucas, they immediately began cost-cutting by outsourcing the production of lightsabers! (and scriptwriters) =O @disney @gl_thx1138 @starwars #joverc