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Fuck off fuck off fuck off

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

"It also involves students being pushed on to AI-focused courses to produce thousands of new graduates as ministers plot to build up capacity in the new technology"

The Independent · Starmer’s 50-point plan for artificial intelligence revealedBy David Maddox

Two years ago, these gullible fools would have been pushing the students onto "NFT-focused courses" wouldn't they?

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These people looked at Sam Altman and thought, "yes, there's a man I can trust"

I should very much like the Prime Minister to watch this youtu.be/gjQUCpeJG1Y?si=QzP0Bc and then explain to us how any of this makes any sense

Starting to think that Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle might not have any idea what he's talking about and is just being led around by the jingling keys of some tech grifters

Peter Kyle would have bought a monorail from Lyle Langley

"The AI will fix the potholes" CAN YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

"There will also be a new “supercomputer”, which the government boasts will have sufficient AI power to play itself at chess half a million times a second"

Jingling fucking keys

The Guardian · ‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AIBy Robert Booth

@pikesley How differently things might have turned out had they only hired their first choice Sam Mainman

@pikesley Not really sure about the aspiration to "reduce public sector admin jobs".
Are they supposed to go and fill potholes or join the ever growing numbers on inadequate benefits?

@pikesley Once Upon A Time I used to be able to get potholes fixed. A resident would report a pothole to me, I'd report it to the relevant council department, and it'd be fixed by the time I passed it on my way home from work the next day.

Until the service got cut, of course.

@pikesley My *exact* thought when I first read about this:

@pikesley That's what it seems like, and a larger trend

@pikesley As we know the news agenda is set by the right. This is one of the few government-led stories I can remember recently. It's a subject which the media will run with as it's in the interests of the owners to big up AI wherever possible for the simple reason that they see it as a way of further reducing their costs.

In other words, this is either brain-addled drivel from the government, or a smart way of getting a positive news story into the cycle.