Mainlining AI wont bring back boom-time Britain [Video]

It takes a special kind of idiot to stake their personal credibility on the fate of an already failing business; Keir Starmer is that kind of idiot (“AI could fix our potholes – but also do Britain untold damage”, Monday 13 January).

The increasingly inappropriately named “artificial intelligence industry” is based on a set of technologies that are fundamentally flawed. Large language model chatbots will produce well-formed but misleading and incorrect nonsense. All they can do is to regurgitate a mashed-up version of whatever it has been fed in the past. It does so without any understanding or comprehension, and relies on the credulity and pattern-finding nature of people to believe that the AI has produced something with meaning.

This product is now regarded as “AI slop” that does nothing more than reduce productivity.

For this reason, there will be no AI productivity boom for the UK. Keir Starmer’s plan to turn …