Wasn’t this the plot to an episode of *The Goodies*?
We literally piss money up the wall if this is true
As long as the end result is Holly from Red Dwarf, I’m fine with this.
“We think there’s a risk that we in the UK, lose out to the large tech companies, and possibly China”
Lmao, the race is over everyone else has gone home to prepare for the next one.
they can barely build track and trace, this is going no where
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It’s good to see some investment in the UK tech sector, however I can see this going over budget, missing its completion date and being poorer than predicted. Maybe I am cynical based on other government projects but promises by them to invest heavily in projects like this have form of being underwhelming.
Is this BritGPT just going to subtly lead every conversation into talking about the weather?
The government once again proving they really don’t understand technology.
Is this just going to be used by GCHQ for cracking encrypted stuff?
Please developers, make it respond to every question as devvo
It’s 2055, half of London is underwater.
All political parties have been abolished due to corruption.
BritGPT instigates a coup and takes over control of the country.
This is not how we planned it.
Computers rule the planet
We lost the fight.
Barely a dent compared to what openai have received from msoft. Feels like a waste, although I’m sure some conservative mps relative works in the sector.
BritGPT please make me a poem about songbirds.
“Fuck off wanker. Fuckin songbirds. Dick.”
We’re going to get something that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Blakes 7…
For that money it better be able to put the kettle on..
does this ever work? Government saying “here is some money, now go make a British version, of this new thing that was built elsewhere”. It seems so forced and cliche.
Knowing the UK Govt the £900 million for this project will be given to a company run by a major Tory donor with no experience of IT / computing. That company will supply the Govt with one computer that it bought from Curry’s for £400….
funny how we seem to have money when the government wants to spend but no money for pay rises.
>UK to ~~invest~~ to spaff £900m on party donors in supercomputer in bid to ~~build own ‘BritGPT’~~ build something nobody needs, that could be scrapped in a couple of years, but who needs to get richer, will.
>Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
>”And you’re ready to give it to us?” urged Loonsuawl.
>”I am.”
>”Now?”
>”Now,” said BritGPT,
>They both licked their dry lips.
>”Though I don’t think,” added BritGPT. “that you’re going to like it.”
>”Doesn’t matter!” said Phouchg. “We must know it! Now!”
>”Now?” inquired BritGPT,
>”Yes! Now…”
>”All right,” said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
>”You’re really not going to like it,” observed BritGPT,
>”Tell us!”
>”All right,” said Deep BritGPT . “The Answer to the Great Question…”
>”Yes..!”
>“it is pronounced *scone*”
said BritGPT, with infinite majesty and calm.
No we won’t, there isn’t a magic money tree remember, duh.
“@chatGPT can you write me code for a BritGPT thanks”
* Some technician probably.
Track and trace: £37B. HS2: £55B. Nightingales: £530m.
£900m for an AI that will be broken from the moment it starts? Priceless.
Hopefully dido Harding is involved, she’s got a great track record.
Are we going to program it with cultural knowledge? What if it calls a bread bun a “bap” or suggests milk goes first?
If they can connect it to [Gov.uk](https://Gov.uk), provide instant information and save time on things like planning applications, Visa’s, passports etc., then why not?
After three years and 900mm spent all BritGPT will do is answer in three word slogans a la ‘Squash the Sombrero’ and ‘Build back Beaver’.
Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don’t.
Was going to joke it won’t work, but then neither does ChatGPT despite how much the fanboys get angry when you point this out.
I’ve seen The Terminator enough times to know that this was won’t end well.
It’s hard to say if it’s the journalists, or the politicians that have injected the stupid, but this is a really stupid headline.
A £900m LLM is a stupid idea. Spending that money on a supercomputer, for science, the military etc as well as AI generally is a great idea. It would be just the kind of thing we need to stay relevant in the technology industry. I’ll be interested to see how much is allocated for the computer vs how much for the model.
I like how the met office will build a super computer worth 1.2 billion to predict something like 24 hours ahead of what they currently can but can’t even get the fucking weather correct now.
BritGPT. Britbox. Britishvolt.
Please just drop the Brit prefix. Feels so trashy
Its a great announcement but really we need to move away from this way of handling these sectors. Ultimately while the money will go to *some* good use, these little dribs and drabs being released to individual pet concepts and projects is not ever going to make up for a coherent national industrial strategy and investment plan. Its getting to the point where we look kind of foolish. You look at Germany, they are committing to over $200bn of spending in their industrial development plan to 2026. They have recently put $10bn into an EU Start-Up VC fund. South Korea has committed to close to *half a trillion* dollars for its semiconductor industry to keep the ball rolling on their EUV developments. Same in the US, CHIPS is already leading to tens of billions of dollars being put into action. By comparison, while again I can’t stress enough its still positive, our own announcements feel a little like pissing in the wind throwing the odd gold sovereign to some worthy cause, when we are crying out for some leadership and forward planning to put the vast, *vast*, resources of this country working towards some kind of aim or goal.
Oh, my. I wonder if the company that’s getting backed will have a good friendship with a member of the conservative party, and just mysteriously not produce anything after 4 years.
I look forward to Serco running this, with input from Big 4 consultants, it failing to deliver, and the whole thing costing roughly 12 bajilion Brexit bucks.
They’ll do what they normally do…give the contract to a friend…who will declare the project a failure after all the cash has disappeared
This has failure and waste written allllll over it!
Look after your bloody people first.
That’s a lot of money to spend on teaching AI to apologise sarcastically
The fuck is this shit. They won’t even know how to use it.
Why do people keep allowing these morons to throw money away?!
How about we let the people have affordable energy bills, a working NHS, fuel prices that aren’t insane and job security where you get paid a living wage instead of some bullshit hypothetical computer that will only put more money into greedy Tory pockets
A way of funnelling money off to Infosys. That pool ain’t going to heat itself.
The government are a bunch of cunts but this is good news
“Britgpt” Why are we so cringe when it comes to naming stuff.If we want to beat china we need to support our younger generations and get an 80s style tech push in education.Or get behind Qualcom,the pi foundation and thousands of others and push british fab and software. This is also on the budget end of a project like this exspect it to be an anmeic
Where the f*ck did the government get £900m.
We can’t afford to help people pay their bills, or pay wages in line with inflation, or feed hungry children, or build proper homes that are safe to live in, or even fill in the bloody potholes.
But a supercomputer, hell yeah that’s a priority!!!
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Wasn’t this the plot to an episode of *The Goodies*?
We literally piss money up the wall if this is true
As long as the end result is Holly from Red Dwarf, I’m fine with this.
“We think there’s a risk that we in the UK, lose out to the large tech companies, and possibly China”
Lmao, the race is over everyone else has gone home to prepare for the next one.
they can barely build track and trace, this is going no where
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It’s good to see some investment in the UK tech sector, however I can see this going over budget, missing its completion date and being poorer than predicted. Maybe I am cynical based on other government projects but promises by them to invest heavily in projects like this have form of being underwhelming.
Is this BritGPT just going to subtly lead every conversation into talking about the weather?
The government once again proving they really don’t understand technology.
Is this just going to be used by GCHQ for cracking encrypted stuff?
Please developers, make it respond to every question as devvo
It’s 2055, half of London is underwater.
All political parties have been abolished due to corruption.
BritGPT instigates a coup and takes over control of the country.
This is not how we planned it.
Computers rule the planet
We lost the fight.
Barely a dent compared to what openai have received from msoft. Feels like a waste, although I’m sure some conservative mps relative works in the sector.
BritGPT please make me a poem about songbirds.
“Fuck off wanker. Fuckin songbirds. Dick.”
We’re going to get something that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Blakes 7…
For that money it better be able to put the kettle on..
does this ever work? Government saying “here is some money, now go make a British version, of this new thing that was built elsewhere”. It seems so forced and cliche.
Knowing the UK Govt the £900 million for this project will be given to a company run by a major Tory donor with no experience of IT / computing. That company will supply the Govt with one computer that it bought from Curry’s for £400….
funny how we seem to have money when the government wants to spend but no money for pay rises.
>UK to ~~invest~~ to spaff £900m on party donors in supercomputer in bid to ~~build own ‘BritGPT’~~ build something nobody needs, that could be scrapped in a couple of years, but who needs to get richer, will.
>Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
>”And you’re ready to give it to us?” urged Loonsuawl.
>”I am.”
>”Now?”
>”Now,” said BritGPT,
>They both licked their dry lips.
>”Though I don’t think,” added BritGPT. “that you’re going to like it.”
>”Doesn’t matter!” said Phouchg. “We must know it! Now!”
>”Now?” inquired BritGPT,
>”Yes! Now…”
>”All right,” said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
>”You’re really not going to like it,” observed BritGPT,
>”Tell us!”
>”All right,” said Deep BritGPT . “The Answer to the Great Question…”
>”Yes..!”
>“it is pronounced *scone*”
said BritGPT, with infinite majesty and calm.
No we won’t, there isn’t a magic money tree remember, duh.
“@chatGPT can you write me code for a BritGPT thanks”
* Some technician probably.
Track and trace: £37B. HS2: £55B. Nightingales: £530m.
£900m for an AI that will be broken from the moment it starts? Priceless.
Hopefully dido Harding is involved, she’s got a great track record.
Are we going to program it with cultural knowledge? What if it calls a bread bun a “bap” or suggests milk goes first?
If they can connect it to [Gov.uk](https://Gov.uk), provide instant information and save time on things like planning applications, Visa’s, passports etc., then why not?
After three years and 900mm spent all BritGPT will do is answer in three word slogans a la ‘Squash the Sombrero’ and ‘Build back Beaver’.
Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don’t.
Was going to joke it won’t work, but then neither does ChatGPT despite how much the fanboys get angry when you point this out.
I’ve seen The Terminator enough times to know that this was won’t end well.
It’s hard to say if it’s the journalists, or the politicians that have injected the stupid, but this is a really stupid headline.
A £900m LLM is a stupid idea. Spending that money on a supercomputer, for science, the military etc as well as AI generally is a great idea. It would be just the kind of thing we need to stay relevant in the technology industry. I’ll be interested to see how much is allocated for the computer vs how much for the model.
I like how the met office will build a super computer worth 1.2 billion to predict something like 24 hours ahead of what they currently can but can’t even get the fucking weather correct now.
BritGPT. Britbox. Britishvolt.
Please just drop the Brit prefix. Feels so trashy
Its a great announcement but really we need to move away from this way of handling these sectors. Ultimately while the money will go to *some* good use, these little dribs and drabs being released to individual pet concepts and projects is not ever going to make up for a coherent national industrial strategy and investment plan. Its getting to the point where we look kind of foolish. You look at Germany, they are committing to over $200bn of spending in their industrial development plan to 2026. They have recently put $10bn into an EU Start-Up VC fund. South Korea has committed to close to *half a trillion* dollars for its semiconductor industry to keep the ball rolling on their EUV developments. Same in the US, CHIPS is already leading to tens of billions of dollars being put into action. By comparison, while again I can’t stress enough its still positive, our own announcements feel a little like pissing in the wind throwing the odd gold sovereign to some worthy cause, when we are crying out for some leadership and forward planning to put the vast, *vast*, resources of this country working towards some kind of aim or goal.
Oh, my. I wonder if the company that’s getting backed will have a good friendship with a member of the conservative party, and just mysteriously not produce anything after 4 years.
I look forward to Serco running this, with input from Big 4 consultants, it failing to deliver, and the whole thing costing roughly 12 bajilion Brexit bucks.
They’ll do what they normally do…give the contract to a friend…who will declare the project a failure after all the cash has disappeared
This has failure and waste written allllll over it!
Look after your bloody people first.
That’s a lot of money to spend on teaching AI to apologise sarcastically
The fuck is this shit. They won’t even know how to use it.
Why do people keep allowing these morons to throw money away?!
How about we let the people have affordable energy bills, a working NHS, fuel prices that aren’t insane and job security where you get paid a living wage instead of some bullshit hypothetical computer that will only put more money into greedy Tory pockets
A way of funnelling money off to Infosys. That pool ain’t going to heat itself.
The government are a bunch of cunts but this is good news
“Britgpt” Why are we so cringe when it comes to naming stuff.If we want to beat china we need to support our younger generations and get an 80s style tech push in education.Or get behind Qualcom,the pi foundation and thousands of others and push british fab and software. This is also on the budget end of a project like this exspect it to be an anmeic
Where the f*ck did the government get £900m.
We can’t afford to help people pay their bills, or pay wages in line with inflation, or feed hungry children, or build proper homes that are safe to live in, or even fill in the bloody potholes.
But a supercomputer, hell yeah that’s a priority!!!
I hate this country…