Correct. AI data scientists and AI chip designers are the people to ask about AI’s technical capability in 2025. Still, they are not the people to ask the ethical questions about a fast-evolving technology that could possibly replace humanity at some future date. AI currently ‘hallucinates’.

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Every manager is talking about AI, politicians can't be quiet. Just don't ask what it all means.

Get really good at clicking on pictures of traffic lights and bicycles

It's a new policy for staff training in Great British Railways

Waste government money to hand it over to some people who run a company that can 'train people in AI' and probably donated money to the TBI or Peter Kyle.

I hope he is not speaking of the Palantir AiP C7ISR cognate behavioral training process.. Because it gives major headaches and fairly strong Tinnitus...

Just as AI hallucinates 'facts', Starmer is now hallucinating the benefits.

Speaking from the perspective of technical writing and marketing communications - I would urge people to step away from GenAI and use proper sources, like interviewing the expert concerned or using back editions of technical / peer reviewed journals.

He meant like this: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

I was hoping people like you could tell me that. 🤷‍♀️

I thought AI needed us to train on.

Absolutely nothing, just words, same as 99% things related to AI

Train AI to make their job.

Learn prompting?.. not exactly exciting policy

Its a train that crashes because it had only been fed stolen data from people who drive on roads.

#FuckAI

It means he doesn’t understand AI

Train in AI now means AGI(Automated General Intelligence)To, make AI think for itself-possibility make cures for diseases that we can't find current diseases...

7.5 million folks learning back propagation would be quite the thing...

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Probably prompt writing and learning what an LLM is.

"Prompting 101"?

Reading a thesaurus ?

"11 major companies". That sounds like another free transfer of public money, too.

Get better at lying?

That sounds like work. I thought AI was supposed to save on work. Now we have to work for the AI. Always seems to work out like that in the long run. Whee.

is the new “learn to code” carrot 🥕 on a stick

Supply them with prompt skills? (Pun intended)

Teach them LISP? That might be a bit dated

Drop the “in” and it makes sense

Study poetry.

Let’s hope it means, the public sector is going to invest in automating low value repetitive tasks

Well…you could give me lots of money and I will present you with a Certificate to say you are trained in AI. Nothing else of value but the Certificate is printed with nice pixels.

So ~22% of employed people in the UK. Probably just a couple of emails explaining what chatgpt is

It's faith based.

Teach AI how to do their jobs.

Same thing as the tories' "retrain in cyber" at a guess?

They're going to pay AI companies a lot of money.

They are taught to write job applications using GenAI.

"re-train" maybe?

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I hear those things are awfully loud.

Teething problems 🙂 … in a few years time it’ll be a big beautiful world beating monorail 🚝 that’ll solve all your problems 😉

If you’d only said “It glides as softly as a cloud” I would have gone line-for-line on the song with you. This is like the time I text my friend “You remind me of the babe” and she replied “Who’s the babe”. Turns out not every millennial is Labyrinth literate.

Sorry 😞

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It means teaching people how to use 'AI' effectively in a number of different contexts.

We desperately need expert prompt engineers to tell us how to derive any value from GenAI.

Many comments here seem to think AI only means chat bots, but the army has a scheme to scale training in AI which is based on the Machine Learning Mastery with Weka book by Jason Brownlee. Every chance that a national scheme would be similar.

Unfortunately most folks don’t understand the differences and overlap between AI, machine learning and data science. It’s all lumped into “AI”. I guess until the program is substantiated it will all be all guesswork as to the content.

Yes, in most cases "AI" is what you call machine learning, data science and model fitting when you want VCs, reviewers and voters to think you're doing something really cutting edge.

Unfortunately it also gives science deniers (like the one in the comments here) a reason to angrily refuse any drug that used AlphaFold in its preclinical development, and possibly threaten the healthcare providers who offer it.

The silver lining is that this has happened with @eliothiggins.bsky.social as the original poster, so the AI fear mongering is a new example of malinformation he can use in his next talk that has just landed in his lap!

Training people to think about what kind of questions they can ask of the huge datasets that are becoming more common is arguably a good idea. Saying "but ChatGPT made up the name of a song" is not an argument against using XGBoost to speed up diagnostics of some disease.

More people will be working in cross-disciplinary teams with data scientists, so it won't hurt them to know more about computers than how to use Office 365

It was written by AI.

Starmer going heavy into AI, just as the sector is about to collapse. Fairly typical of politicians without any science/tech background to get bamboozled by techbro hype.

It's exactly the same as back in the day, right before the dot com crash.

I really fucking hope the sector does collapse, but I'll believe it when I see it.

That doesn’t mean it will go away— just you won’t be able to get venture capital just by inserting AI into the pitch. This cycle repeats every few years…