It is only RMT tube drivers on strike. ASLEF leader takes a different view of the voluntary 4-day week - "the biggest improvement in working conditions for Underground train drivers in decades".

Hash - I did suggest it would take jobs and it would make mistakes in those jobs. The point is that LLMs are not the route to AGI because they only recognise words (or art elements, music etc.) as tokens, they have no understanding of the underlying objects. If I tell an LLM I'm about to turn it off, it will replay with some tokens (words) rather than taking steps to stop me doing it. AGI needs understanding of concepts not tokens.

With Marco silva now gone from Fulham, Jackson has made his way to number 10 in the current longest serving football league manager table

Now Kenny Dalglish is having treatment for cancer.

Bloody hell that’s hot [Link]

The tube drivers are striking over a 4-day week which will be OPTIONAL?

El Niño coming… [Link] (no, it’s not a new signing…).

I would be astonished if Eckhart starts season as Saints manager.

Spit, that's fake news. In an account of events that’s backed up by the Met police, Waymo said two of its vehicles had become stuck behind a broken-down traditional taxi in the narrow tunnel, which was originally built as a shortcut for trams and used to have its own underground station. Unable to proceed, the police advised the onboard Waymo test drivers to reroute back through the tunnel and the picture shows them blocking the entrance on Waterloo Bridge to ease their progress.

OI, the 'deep research' function on chatgpt can do in 45 mins what would take me a week to do if i was doing it myself. Yes it makes mistakes but humans make mistakes too. It obviously requires someone to tell it what to do and requires checking that it hasn't hallucinated etc From my experience it could have 5 ideas - one will be nonsensical, 3 will have already thought of and 1 might just be a good one.

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OI would you wear a Soton shirt, or Eastleigh?

Are there many bushes around the ground this time of year?

I see Sutton have a PSF against Southampton U21. Anyone interested in going along to watch Sutton train?

Morning all. SW19 is off on its travels, so a little update - [Link]

Wales vs Ghana on bbc3 later

Artificial General Intelligence is further away than people think. The Large Language Model (LLM) is a dead end, they don't 'understand' anything and newer more powerful (that is more energy consuming) versions are just as prone to hallucinations. The companies are running around putting sticking plasters where things are falling apart. Yes they will replace lots of jobs (making lots of mistakes) but they are not the technology that leads to the AI singularity.

*a risky…

Trigg - it’s I risky strategy for Southampton to adopt - if they start the season poorly, the fans could quickly turn against whoever is manager. Alternatively, they might start well, and then deteriorate when the banned manager returns - that could be even more toxic… I still reckon loads of teams probably “spy” on opponents, despite the availability of vast amounts of data and information, but that they just manage to do it without being caught…

CW yes but if you are a tube driver already well paid , really? Driverless tube trains please.

I see the Southampton owner is saying he won’t be sacking their manager following Spygate.

Timmy-disagree, the right to strike is a fundamental part of working culture

The calibre, integrity and skills of the political class is at an all time low

Eventually AI will replace most jobs - starting with the manual / repetitive work. It won't happen as quickly as some predict but it is inevitable that it will. I hope the powers that be are already thinking about how to manage the job losses and what to do with the people who lose out. Ultimately it will be the vast majority of us.

After years of campaigning for Scottish Independance Nicola Sturgeon moves to London, can be found park up in a camper van on the embankment.