Thursday, 24 August 2023
With the trust and knowledge
Kir Nuthi has an interesting CAPX piece on the opportunities for Britain in the age of AI. Interesting because it manages to be enthusiastic and inadvertently grim at the same time. It could almost be satire or written by AI. Maybe it's both.
Britain and its startups should lead the Age of AI
The age of Artificial Intelligence isn’t coming, it’s here. At the Startup Coalition, we talk regularly to startups already using AI to detect cancer, sequence as yet undiscovered drugs and improve customer service. The debate is no longer if, but when, AI will have succeeded in completely transforming life as we know it.
And it’s clear too that AI could make or break the UK’s economy. We already have a strong innovation ecosystem. We know this because we can see the numbers – over 1500 high-growth startups contributing more than 20,000 jobs and £1bn in revenue to the economy – and because the Startup Coalition has been meeting and talking with founders and startups almost every week this year.
Opportunities all over the place. Splendid, but after the enthusiasm here's the grim bit for those with a longer memory than goldfish -
With the trust and knowledge of partners like the Tony Blair Institute and Onward, and the diverse startups that make up the UK’s AI ecosystem, we’re sure we can take on challenge.
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4 comments:
1. There's a government "Office of AI"? Who knew?
2. Somehow the ideas "Tony Blair" and "Artificial Intelligence" sit well together.
3. I think the piece is AI generated. "See! Even this article is written by AI, and you didn't even notice! That's how good we are!"
The AI thingies that people are fussing about are just Regurgitation Engines.
Seems to me that AI is a natural choice for cleaning up social media. Program it to block any communication that is a personal attack, threat, encouragement to self-harm etc...
Sam - I hope the government Office of AI uses AI to generate all of its reports. Then one person working from home could run the whole thing.
dearieme - the problem seems to be that this is what most people do most of the time. Many pundits and journalists don't do much more than that and maybe that's where the fussing comes from.
decnine - it's probably doing something like that already.
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