{"id":214105,"date":"2025-01-13T12:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/with-ai-hype-cooling-pm-hopes-the-technology-will-boost-his-efficiency-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:33:35","slug":"with-ai-hype-cooling-pm-hopes-the-technology-will-boost-his-efficiency-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/with-ai-hype-cooling-pm-hopes-the-technology-will-boost-his-efficiency-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"With AI hype cooling, PM hopes the technology will boost his ‘efficiency’ mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’d be forgiven for thinking your AI was hallucinating.<\/p>\n

The last government hastily convened an “AI safety summit” over fears AI could destroy civilisation.<\/p>\n

The latest has just announced a plan that “mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation”.<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>UK to ‘mainline AI in the veins’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

All that has really happened is the hype around AI has cooled – and with it have the comparisons to Terminator.<\/p>\n

Even the people making the largest, most powerful AIs seem to still be figuring out what they’re good for.<\/p>\n

The economic realities of training ever-larger AI models and paying for the hardware and energy to power them is another factor.<\/p>\n

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To be fair to the previous government, it’s main interest in AI was also potential for economic growth – but given the mood at the time, it had to be circumspect with language.<\/p>\n

Not so for Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

And, with an agenda geared more towards efficiency, public-sector improvement and stimulating UK industry, AI fits his mission well.<\/p>\n

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Complex algorithms are well-suited to repetitive, tedious admin tasks that take up too much of our teachers’, nurses’ or tax officers’ time.<\/p>\n

AI can also see patterns or solve problems in large data-sets too unwieldy for human brains to manage well.<\/p>\n

Cutting NHS waiting lists, discovering new drugs from huge patient databases or simply freeing up teachers’ or nurses’ time to do their real jobs are all attractive to politicians.<\/p>\n

As are the highly skilled, well-paid jobs in a sector in which the UK is already strong.<\/p>\n

It’s a tricky road however. It will take more than a plan to encourage more big tech companies to grow or invest in the UK.<\/p>\n

Risky too – the NHS and projects like UK Biobank are the largest single source of patient-level healthcare data in the world.<\/p>\n

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They are immensely attractive to big tech companies fast running out of real information on which to train their ever-hungry AI models.<\/p>\n

How to make such data available in a way that benefits his mission without AI taking over some of the UKs most valuable, and most private resources, is Keir Starmer’s challenge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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