They’re gonna create a competitor to OpenAI using the British Civil Service and government spending. Yeah, ok. Best of luck to them.
Using half of what Meta, the smallest of the FAANG, spends in a year alone on AI datacenters.
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#12> We can learn from the US’s and EU’s approach - delivering the dynamism, flexibility and long-term stability that we know businesses want. At least for AI regulation, the EU is the last place I'd want the UK to learn from.
As opposed to the US, which is famous for its hands-on, consumer-friendly attitude to business?
The challenge for the UK is actually building this stuff to a non-zero level of competence. The usual suspects in the IT consulting industry must be collectively having seizures over the prospect of being paid another 7 figure sum to deliver absolute slop several years behind schedule. Sunak beating himself up over the missed opportunity to inject another billion in cash to InfoSys.
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#13> We can learn from the US’s and EU’s approach - delivering the dynamism, flexibility and long-term stability that we know businesses want. At least for AI regulation, the EU is the last place I'd want the UK to learn from.
I hoped as I read that sentence that "learning" could involve learning what not to do as well as learning what to do.
Good point.
I note that they've announced "work starting on a brand new supercomputer", so this is potentially backtracking on a very poor decision made last August to cancel a new exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyx5x44vnyeo)
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#14Have you tried killing all the poor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE
What about changing the hyper-parameters and killing all the poor?
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#15> feed AI through cameras to spot potholes and help improve roads.
This example only makes sense if we're in a position where all the potholes we know about are fixed, and all of the pothole fixing masterworkers are sitting idle, waiting to leap into action at the next report.
But the reality is there are many, many potholes that are known about, but we can't/won't fix them due to things like budgets and staffing constraints.
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#16I await JobCentre being filled up with prompt engineers in about 2 years.
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#17> Sovereign AI compute, owned and/or allocated by the public sector, will enable the UK to quickly and independently allocate compute to national priorities. [...] Sovereign AI compute will almost certainly be the smallest component of the UK’s overall compute portfolio. > NB: this review has not considered the requirements of non-AI high-performance computing, for which there is already a well-established case, incl…
> The government, or at least who ever is writing this report, seems to imagine "AI" as a uniform and distinct process, where you turn on the AI machine, electricity goes in and AI comes out
This is how a large chunk of the general public think of "AI" as well. They're just waiting for someone to flip the AI switch or add a bunch of `from ai import magically_do_everything` to products and services they use.
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#18>the AI industry needs a government that is on their side, one that won’t sit back and let opportunities slip through its fingers. And in a world of fierce competition, we cannot stand by. We must move fast and take action to win the global race. This sounds like desperation more than anything else. I think a rush to use AI in public services without thorough planning and a critical mindset will inevitability lead to…
Worse. Much worse. Healthcare and social care will be involved almost immediately and forced to suck up all the bad ideas and inappropriate uses to keep interest up. People who raise rational objections will be silenced.
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#19Interesting that it was published within days of the US AI docs
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#20They’re gonna create a competitor to OpenAI using the British Civil Service and government spending. Yeah, ok. Best of luck to them.
"Sure OpenAI is ok, but what if we created a competitor with the imagination, innovation and work ethic of the British Civil Service, all on a fraction of the budget"