Maybe. It wouldn’t be the Gen variety, but you might be able to do some interesting stuff with a more serious application. Trouble is it’s likely to be messy - like the crime prediction systems which basically replicate our prejudices.
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But… traffic flow for public transport? School places? Health risks and hospital beds? All kinds of things seem plausible, with good data and an awareness of what the system can and cannot do with it.
sep 2, 2025, 10:22 am • 3 0 • view
Traffic control? What could go wrong? 🦈
sep 2, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
“When driving, ignore Left and Right signs. These are merely political slogans.” - Gerald Hoffnung
sep 2, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
Ah. Flow. Design. Not real time control.
sep 2, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
I am sure Firewatch said much the same thing at the start... 😅
sep 2, 2025, 11:28 am • 1 0 • view
But it’ll take work and sensible governance! So… maybe.
sep 2, 2025, 10:23 am • 5 0 • view
I’m interested in that dataset analysis. IBM describes it as a form of Generative AI. www.ibm.com/think/topics... At some point (like now), we’ll have to see the limitations, and I think the reaction will be to set some regulations (restrictions) on its use. The genie is out.
sep 2, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
The public discourse is so hyped that the terns of art are a bit broken. ML vs AI vs AGI etc. Say, then, that eg an AlphaFold for traffic flow seems plausible to me, but I’m concerned about the quality of human social data.
sep 2, 2025, 10:43 am • 1 0 • view
And certainly I’d be hesitant about whether an individual MP - already under-resourced given the gravity of the job - has access to the necessary staff, data, expertise & compute. Maybe a group?
sep 2, 2025, 10:26 am • 3 0 • view
My biggest concern with MP's using AI for constituency work is that they will be sharing sensitive and personal information with the AI provider, perhaps without consituents realising this is the case. There's a Data Protection element to it that, as you say, individual MP's may not appreciate.
sep 2, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
At this point I’d be happy if a government would accept the basic notion of privacy in the digital space.
sep 2, 2025, 10:45 am • 2 0 • view