The Labour government’s plan for economic growth, public service reform, and thus its electoral hopes, rest on the country adopting AI.
But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.
But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.
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On the upside, just about everyone loses their job.
- Destroy the creative industries ✅
- Assist existing US mega- corps ✅
What's not to love?
But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge Magic Beans and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters..."
What is NDP?
Have economists lost the NDP in the Cash Flow? #EconSky
Why no mandatory accounting in schools since Sputnik?
Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times in Wealth of Nations. He used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times.
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Copies of the above post have gotten likes but no comments. Certainly not from anyone disputing my correction of the NDP equation.
Has the US been a planned obsolescence economy since the 1950s?
Heard of Vance Packard?
The Waste Makers
The Status Seekers
The Hidden Persuaders
MANDELSON (whispers): Use Palentir, they're great clients.
STARMER: Sounds legit. Do it.
THIEL: Ka-ching!
VANCE: Super!
How utterly shocking. I am shocked.
"Oh cool, I can cheat on homework more efficiently and write emails slightly faster" isn't exactly a panacea for unemployment, wealth disparity, or inflation. It, in fact, exascerbates those things and people know it.
Well done public.
It's a remarkable, selfless & gratious act to dispose of oneself so many of us with zen-like skills in python, react, figma, elicit, runway, can move ahead with seamless poise.
It's not an optics problem. It's a fundamental principles problem.
Clueless, pointless, and no humanity while generally being on the wrong side of history
Couldn't they at least have use EastEnders as the input?
Make them pay royalties, make everything generated by AI legally uncopyrightable, and slap taxes on the techbro twats.
It is theft of the commons and must be resisted at all turns.
MAGIC AI WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS!
He is. He wants to have AI data centres in the UK for (that's not where the profit is going to be) but weak leaders always like big buildings
There's very little political discussion on this!
Starmer wants to sell the UK into digital slavery, and the people are rightfully angry.
Everyone knows these AI tools are totally useless, make far more work than they save, and will be used as 'computer says no' excuse for even deeper austerity.
Labour are intellectually bankrupt.
this is just an ai lobbying group that registered itself as a 'think tank' less than a year ago.
https://bsky.app/profile/sloanelysbeth.bsky.social/post/3lq5li6b5bs2g
What's that? It's all a load of bollocks and a massive waste that will make a few people richer, steal art & further ruin the planet instead? Piss off, Keir.
Did mobile phones? Laptops?
And AI if abused will eat electricity in massive amounts
It can be used to triage scans or other medical images
I suspect already in use for national security
Few times I tried code it suggested, it gave useful content, but it never seemed to cover the requirement exactly and sometimes commits an obvious error
But then - I'm not perfect either
Can we have ANY unbiased educated leaders?
Every £ spent on AI when the same outcomes could be achieved if services had enough well trained people is a £ wasted. It sucks money out of communities into profits.
Nobody is optimistic about technology anymore - We expect the future to be shit.
Go actually improve public services and then people will be won over - Talking up flashy tech will do fuck all.
Why does Labour support a burgeoning new industry WITHOUT concerning itself with its ethics? Discussions AI experts have been having for decades, all ignored in some mad rush.
What about the UK's environmental commitments?
Probably sponsored by one of the ai moguls
AI has use cases but it's not that transformative.
What it's doing is sort of counterfitting being an AGI.
It's not something you can base an economy on.
Yes, Labour wants to utilise AI more (like most other Gov’s), but it’s not a critical issue for future electoral prospects by any means.
For medical diagnosis, AI is already proving very effective.
It's mainly artists and writers that are (rightly) angry about AI being trained on their work.
AI has it's place, but it isn't for every task.
Marketing has conflated LLMs and other dross with useful Machine Learning, so everyone thinks it's all pants.
What I hate is AI being forced on me every time I do an internet search. This is incredibly wasteful.