Fighting fire with fire? Plan to make UK the world leader in AI.

Beeches

Monica here’s a screen grab of countries ranked by AI infrastructure and leadership in the field

I have never questioned Britian's place as one of the top AI countries in the world. But all the AI companies named by Starmer in his speech are foreign owned, or dependent on major foreign investment. Starmer's speech gave us no hope that that was likely to change

What I would have like to see was a stirring speech showing how this was going to change and what was going to be done to change this situation so that at last one of our top AI companies was owned adn FINANCED in Britain.

M0nica

It is meaningless tosh. Anyone can make aspirational speeches about what will happen in the future, but unless you then indicate how you intend to reach that nirvana, it is absolutely meaningless.

I am sure every other developed country has such aspirations. We heard similar speeches from various poiticians when in power about the wonders electric cars and battery plants would have in taking the economy forwards - and we can see what is happening there. The cars are made in China and the efforts to build battery plants has been disastrous.

As for our history of developing technology, yes we do - and then sell it off to the highest bidder, usually American and they make the money.

You are so right. I thought exactly the same when I heard him speak.

David49*, I think AI produced novels are currently thought to be derivative!

Unsurprisingly!

I see google search results now have an AI answer at the top. I've just asked a question about the position of decks/cabins on a particular cruise ship, and the AI answer was patently wrong. Not very encouraging.

bookwormbabe don't forget the stuff you can access easily hasn't been updated for some years now.
Maybe this has something to do with it?

DS is an academic. He is always writing papers for publication. So (tongue in cheek) he decided to see how AI could assist him. He fed a description of the subject matter of a research paper into an AI system and waited for the result.

The result was a hilarious, as NotSpaghetti says its research base was years out of date, it referred to research projects that did not exist, referenced to DS publications he had never written in journals that do not exist and its conclusions, to put it mildly, were eccentric.

Still is supplied us all with a source of innocent amusement.

bookwormbabe

I see google search results now have an AI answer at the top. I've just asked a question about the position of decks/cabins on a particular cruise ship, and the AI answer was patently wrong. Not very encouraging.

For my husband's business the results were quite helpful. However the input information was correct records. He was looking for and found long trends, data baking up potential profit and loss areas. Worked well.