Haydn Belfield

Mar 28, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Markus Anderljung |Lennart Heim |Haydn Belfield

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Computing power—compute, for short—is a key driver of artificial intelligence (AI) progress. Over the past 13 years, the amount of compute used to train leading AI systems has increased by a factor of 350 million. This has enabled the major AI advances that have recently gained global attention. However, compute is important not only for the progress of AI but also for its governance. Governments have taken notice.

Mar 10, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Haydn Belfield

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Mar 10, 2024 | vox.com | Haydn Belfield

My wife and I went to see Oppenheimer on opening weekend in July, and I wore my best Los Alamos-themed costume. We opted for the biggest screen we could — and as the Trinity test explosion kept on rising higher and higher endlessly upward, I was glad we had sprung for the more expensive IMAX ticket for the sheer spectacle. I could guess, even then, that this film was destined for this weekend’s Academy Awards, where it will compete for 13 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Jul 22, 2023 | vox.com | Haydn Belfield

One would be tempted to describe J. Robert Oppenheimer as a tragic figure — that’s certainly how Christopher Nolan portrays him in the biopic Oppenheimer. The father of the atomic bomb who spent the rest of his life agonizing over what he had helped birth; the ultimate insider who was humbled and brought low; the hopeful scientist who started the nuclear arms race. But then, tragic figures don’t generally spend their retirement yachting around the Caribbean.

Jul 22, 2023 | flipboard.com | Haydn Belfield

"Cry baby scientist": What Oppenheimer the film gets wrong about Oppenheimer the manThe so-called “father of the bomb” helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk. One would be tempted to describe J. Robert Oppenheimer as a tragic figure — that’s certainly how Christopher Nolan portrays him in the biopic Oppenheimer. The father of the atomic bomb who spent the rest …