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'Mainlined into UK's veins': Labour announces public rollout of AI

theguardian.com

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In other words: They're incapable of basic, competent governance - so they're pivoting to a desperate chase after the latest hot trend, and hoping for salvation. Or at least to run away from their problems.

Suggestion: Move Labor's current leadership to some glacier-covered flyspeck in the South Atlantic (Britain has quite a few), to work out the bugs in their grand AI plans. Meanwhile, form an "interim" government back in London - made up of old-school folks who just want to do basic, competent, meeting-today's-needs governance.

Problem is where to find those.

s/where/how/, but yes. While making sure the departing duffers don't get any "we'll find 'em with an AI!" ideas.

Oh my god please don't X(

there's every chance that this will be a fiasco, but UK is low on options and needs to take long shots like this.

It is not a long shot, it is hot air.

Remember that the UK is going to be the leader in freetrade, leader in battery tech, leader in tree-planting, leader in EV, and have its own GPS system... and now also leader in AI!

This announcement is especially good for the likes of Nvidia, though, because a plan "to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030" means spending that money on Nvidia's hardware...

Hot air?

>> Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects.

A "multibillion-pound investment". That's where they're going to put all the money they didn't spend on the winter fuel allowance, lifting the two-child benefit cap, green promises broken on the wheel etc etc.

This is a complete disaster and a huge squandering of public money.

TBH 20x and Moore's law really only means replacing whatever H100 they have today with Nvidia's 2030 cards. Replacing AI chips at least every five years surly has to be the default assumption.

This is how you know the AI boom has peaked ...

This is near-idiotic, especially allowing the AI to train on (however anonymised) actual healthcare data.

Yes, they have been trying to give all the NHS data to Palentir for decades though.

Yeah, it does not absolve them of anything, but Palantir and the other shady sigint/military intelligence companies at least pick their customers at a state level, unlike techbro startups that will jump in the bed with just about anyone with a pulse and a monthly subscription. Not that I endorse that either. I wish for a fiery rain upon the data brokers regardless of their preferred customers.

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