If you consider things like Mythos (I know it was partly hype), and cyber security using AI to find old vulnerabilities in open source tools, and others using that information to actively disrupt the economy (this is already happening)....
And governments pushing quantum computing, presumably to be first to crack Internet security: it's easier to imagine some of those future threats.
It's a massive long shot pipe dream, but we might somehow end up with legislators who have backbones and actually represent the people, and they'll enact regulation to reign in the applications of AI, provide a safety net for the millions who will be affected by it, and/or at least find a way to spread the prosperity that comes from AI across the population rather than into the hands of the few. I'm not betting on it, but it theoretically could happen.
I doubt it. There is so little care for monopoly or copyright because AI is a race, as much as it is a tool. And nobody wants to restrict the race. Policy may pass that limits the use of AI for the general public, but the 'whatever it takes' race to 'superintelligence' goes on.
> Or that a competitive startup won't lean on AI to get ahead?
Specifically, with the way both economy and politics is structured, everything will be about big corporations with centralized power. A competitive startup leaning on AI getting ahead will be either destroyed or bought.
>The world doesn't hold hands with anyone, there is no global consensus, no policy.
It is totally holding hands and helping out - to Schmidts, Trumps, Musks, Epsteins. Just not to poorer people.
> Do you think AI will go away and suddenly businesses will start hiring people back?
In fact, with well run economy that systematically prevents monopolies, yes it tends to hire people no matter what technological level. Currents state where few super powerful companies are able to push themselves into everything and create monopolies via dumping prices, even as they are not profitable and can count on their friends in administration to bail them out once if all goes pop is the ineffective economy.
I agree with most of your points except the last one.
Probably easier to ask a question than argue a point:
How eager are you to use Government services?
Businesses are only well-run if they make profit: hiring the cheapest labor to produce something people will actually spend money on. And the more frictionless that process, the more our economy advances it. AI fits in there very well.
I also want to point out: startups are usually happy to be bought up by the bigger guys.
No, the GDS should definitely replace all services on gov.uk to be only accessible via MCP. "Claude, I've logged into PayPal via oAuth, now renew my passport" /s
Chris McCausland is great. A fair bit of his material _does_ reference his visual impairment, but it's genuinely witty and sharp, and it never feels like he's leaning on it for laughs/relying on sympathy.
He did a great skit with Lee Mack at the BAFTAs 2022[0], riffing on the autocue the speakers use for announcing awards.
In Exeter[1], we still have roughly 70% of our Roman wall[2], and there is even a pedestrian footbridge over a road where part of the "bridge" involves walking along the top of the wall's remains.
Have you given Hyperdrive[0] a try? In theory, it should improve performance in your use case where you have a central database (Railway) being connected to from the Edge (your Workers).
It moves the DB connection logic closer to your Workers, pools connections, and can also cache queries.
(Disclaimer: I work for Cloudflare, but on an unrelated team. Not personally used Hyperdrive, but heard good things!)
It actually looks very interesting, but my app is not particularly affected by database query time, but rather by the time spent on the various AI generations.
Awesome, great job on the site! I saw it on the Slack, and was surprised at the level of detail in some of the pages like the tooth selection screen :D
It also got a good chuckle from those I shared it with at work! :)
Can't speak on behalf of GP, but I suspect when they said "require," it's more loose than that. I've experienced UK schools that have a shared pool of iPads for students who haven't got a compatible device (for a multitude of reasons). So in that sense, students "require" a device from the perspective of learning, but don't "require" to own one outright (so it's not a barrier to education).
I've found that for this sort of thing, @next/font (https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/optimizing/fonts) is a pretty handy library (from Vercel) for Next.js projects. You can import Google Fonts as simple as:
Now you can add this class name to any React elements and they'll have the Roboto font. Next.js will handle all of the self-hosting and wiring behind-the-scenes (i.e. no requests made to Google from the client).
Believe this was one of the announcements to come out of the most recent Next.js conference, so info may only be available on the beta version of their docs site (linked above).
