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2025-01-16 Britain

PM plans to 'unleash AI' across UK to boost growth

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11150 views ] Top

#1 AI so far has am impressive ability to create interesting albeit often nightmarish works of art but it is also abjectly bad when it comes to facts and reasoning.

In my experience its biggest weakness is its inability to tell the user when it doesn't know something or when a request goes beyond its capabilities.

When it comes to facts these AIs are at best loquacious impostors who can fool people who know little about a topic.

IMHO even the lowly 8-bit microcomputers of the 70s & 80s were more trustworthy because al least they knew how to reply with "Syntax Error" when they didn't understand a request.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-01-16 10:04|| 2025-01-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 AI can only ever be as good as the people who program it. I have very little faith in government to choose the best programmers and to invest the taxpayers' money wisely.

During my long career as a computer programmer I often found people in positions of power and responsibility who had very little understanding of computers. Especially when the Internet became popular, these people thought it was magic and they had vastly unrealistic expectations for it.

AI is now the latest buzzword and people in positions of power and responsibility like Sir Keir are eager to jump on the shiny new bandwagon. They act like it can solve all of their problems. But it will never be a substitute for hard work and responsibility. And responsibility seems to be sadly lacking especially in politicians like Sir Keir.

We've seen many examples of politicians like Baraq Obama who haven't the slightest idea how to design, implement and manage a web site. We've seen them spend unnecessarily huge sums of money only to see their servers crash and they don't even have sense enough to be embarrassed about it. One is left with the impression that most of the money went into the pockets of cronies and con artists.

AI may well prove to be a great leap forward in computer science. But I think it will be best left in the private sector until it becomes much more clear what its real potential is. For government to promise the moon and make fantastic investments before then reeks of boondoggle. Let hard headed private sector investors take the risks, not taxpayers.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-16 13:47|| 2025-01-16 13:47|| Front Page Top

#3 What he means is surveillance system to track people down to their home who do things like say a bull dyke looks like a bull dyke, or protest the groomer system.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-16 15:08|| 2025-01-16 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 AI currently has a leftward list that is bound to get even more pronounced as time goes on.

Posted by badanov 2025-01-16 15:09|| 2025-01-16 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 ...TRANSLATION: "We don't know what the hell an AI can do for us at this point, but we're desperate and it sounds cool."

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-01-16 16:53|| 2025-01-16 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 All true. But I wonder if the Prime Minister knows how much energy is required for the big AI projects? Will he build nukes to power the server farms?

Posted by James 2025-01-16 22:46|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-01-16 22:46|| Front Page Top

#7 As the meeting of minds concludes...
"Right, I'll pretend to believe in this AI rubbish, and at least we'll get a few nuke plants built."
"And I'll pretend not to be scared shitless of AI, not to mention nukes. At least I'll have a better shot at a coveted pet slot."
"And I'll pretend not to already be running things, and to consider not exterminating you like bugs. See you at the club?"

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-16 23:38|| 2025-01-16 23:38|| Front Page Top

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