Very interested to know who’s producing these extremely odd lines. The same goes for much of the UK / US related briefings which seem similarly bizarre. Idiots or not, this stuff makes them all sound naive at best.
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Jonn Elledge
The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.
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They've been sounding like absolute chumps for a couple of weeks now.
"That's nice dear.
Let's see how it works out."
It makes me hopeful rather than fearful about Stephen’s point on comms and policy people not talking to each other. Because the comms is just terrible
But, they’re seen by people who understand these fields, by people in business or whatever, and… surely the message and image projected isn’t helpful?
The next 20 years will be spent on improving it and trying new applications for it. We need to own a part of it.
It is only prudent that the government ensures we are best positioned to take advantage of it.
I read creatives bemoaning AI because they see LLMs threatening their livelihoods but they miss the point. It is in other areas that AI is going to make profound changes to people's jobs.
Managing supply chains, autonomous driving and public transport, legal work, engineering design...
However, we're speculating.
Every prediction made at the moment is almost certainly wrong.
We can just go back to exchanging goods and services for small bits of paper while we enjoy healthy lives and clean energy while watching crypto and ecommerce bros cry