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Thread #174300 Message #4236722
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
10-Mar-26 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
Subject: RE: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
Guess where :-) .... or should that be "guess whence"?
[...] Not everyone is on board with the AI revolution. One senior civil servant said: "None of the AI case studies turn out to be as good as the press release, and not a single one will transform government's cost base... There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall."
.... in which the comments include a correction ("a naiive techno-utopianism in Westminster"), plus the following gem:
The better-half ordered a new desk from on online supplier which arrived minus some hardware. She rang the company and had to endure an ai slave. Two days later a complete new desk arrived and a week after that a third turned up. We've checked credit card statements and haven't been charged for the two new ones and guess what...trying to return them caused the ai to offer to despatch replacements.