The venue for #soocon24, the Brewery in Shoreditch, is pretty cool. I don’t know how much was staged by the @openuk people and how much is here all the time, but whichever it is they’ve done a good job. And I have started the day with a ginger energy bar, to maintain my essential levels of ginger energy.

Interesting opening keynote from Professor Neil Lawrence at #soocon24: the big AI companies are modern day guilds looking to keep the knowledge and power to themselves, and they’re the sorcerer’s apprentice unleashing the multitude of brooms that they don’t know how to control. We need to empower our society to be open and stop them pushing things in their direction only.
Also quite envious of his ability to speak fluently extempore without slides, I admit

@sil here is a blog post from @lawrennd with his keynote: https://inverseprobability.com/2024/02/09/the-sorcerors-apprentice