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 David Gerard   ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details

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UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details

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 David Gerard   ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago
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The UK government today announced its “AI Opportunities Action Plan” — a rough and buzzword-saturated sketch promising to spend billions on this magical new technology that will achieve unprecedent…
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  •  o7___o7   ( @o7___o7@awful.systems ) 
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    Keir Starmer methodically applies clown makeup, ultimately transforming into a fully-realized Rishi Sunak

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    this is just so nakedly a scam, it’s a little startling. I feel like if your whole pitch - as it appeared to me - was “we will be like the tories but more competent and less corrupt,” then it would behoove you to at least try to appear more competent and less corrupt

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    Terrible priorities

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    the only TBI i knew of before this article was traumatic brain injury

    •  David Gerard   ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) OPM
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      and it still is

  •  Phil   ( @pja@awful.systems ) 
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    The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.

    If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.

    •  David Gerard   ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) OPM
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      eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don’t exist yet.

      they’ve already made it clear they’re gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I’ll credit them with

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