saw this posted with no alt text so reposting :D
tfw ukgov spends almost a billion quid on a GPT model and the first thing it says is "what's happenin' dudes"

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A bubble. Hopefully in one or two years we'll get another AI winter.

@gsuberland It's a fine day for AI, innit?
@gsuberland as long as we can have Queeg for a bit, it's worth the money
@instantarcade @gsuberland @patterfloof The way things are heading, a pea on toast will end up a gourmet dinner...
@gsuberland Would you like some toast?

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Fortunately, work on an opensource version is well underway. :P

@SweetAIBelle we are talking jape of the decade. we are talking April, May, June, July, and August fool.
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Honestly, this is what we really need to be doing with ai models; convincing them that they are Holly or Queeg... 

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Has there ever been a government computer initiative that didn't overrun by 5 years, 8 X budget and was then abandoned?

If it does deliver, what will we get?
Poems about how great Brexit is.

Fuckwits.

#ukpolitics

@mkarliner @gsuberland @patterfloof UK Government IT: On time, On Budget, Works. Pick 1.

@gsuberland "An exascale computer can be used for training complex AI models, but also have other uses..."

Worrying

@gsuberland I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
No doubt that it'll have an IQ of 6000, “the same as 6000 PE teachers”…
@gsuberland @arakin Nah, UK Gov would never support a transgender AI.
@gsuberland I really want specifically this to be a thing now.

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They're dead, Dave. They're all dead.

@gsuberland @theresnotime I sure hope someone misinterprets the brief as "build Britney GPT" so we get a sassy GPT "I'm britney bitch"
@gsuberland Oh good grief :) My bet is that it'll be quietly dumped next year after an exploratory £800m or so is trousered by ministerial chums. They just ditched a similarly iffy exercise in slapping a flag on a bad idea (the Royal Mint NFT).
@gsuberland Saw this and wondered if we'd been fooled for the last few years...plausible use of big words, sounds like it might work, but lacks detail (and if there are details, often incorrect)......sounds like the Westminster Govt!
@gsuberland I’m actually more surprised that it didn’t just come out with “STARVE THE CHILDREN!!! DESTROY THE HUMAN RIGHTS!!! “DRINK ALL THE TEA!!!” straight off the bat, tbh