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I know the Dutch government, did lot of dev work for them, these pilots mean a lot of taxpayer money. Half of the pilots won't be completed and the other half

I know the Dutch government, did lot of dev work for them, these pilots mean a lot of taxpayer money. Half of the pilots won't be completed and the other half won't be used. There is no way that in 6-7 months experimenting will lead to different insights then we have now. It does mean a lot of expensive consultants and reports. The only useful thing would be an on-premise solutions, which I'm sure lots of startups are working on; not something these pilots will be able to manage in 6-7 months unless with lots of luck (finding the right people) & cash.

lozenge 3y ago
Yes, this seems like somebody seeing AI as an area they can "take over" including prestige and a headcount. In this case, every department of the government already has a legal team, a privacy and data use officer, etc, responsible for the use of any product. Why does this need to be centralised? In my org, somebody got hold of 50 license seats for a popular code generating AI, and required users to fill in lengthy forms and provide regular feedback about their "use cases" and "experience". Somehow, this "pilot" never ends, because then their makework would end.
- bobthepanda 3y ago
  This becomes an issue if each department is not consistent with each other. Recently at an American university a department was banned for new tenure positions for two years after it was found that their hiring process differed from the university's as a whole, in a way that could get the university as a whole into legal trouble. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-action-after-faculty-hiring-process-inappropriately-used-race-as-a-factor/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-... Getting ahead of it with a universal policy to set a minimum bar doesn't sound like the worst idea.

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I know the Dutch government, did lot of dev work for them, these pilots mean a lot of taxpayer money. Half of the pilots won't be completed and the other half

by wouldbecouldbe 3y ago

lozenge 3y ago
Yes, this seems like somebody seeing AI as an area they can "take over" including prestige and a headcount. In this case, every department of the government already has a legal team, a privacy and data use officer, etc, responsible for the use of any product. Why does this need to be centralised? In my org, somebody got hold of 50 license seats for a popular code generating AI, and required users to fill in lengthy forms and provide regular feedback about their "use cases" and "experience". Somehow, this "pilot" never ends, because then their makework would end.
- bobthepanda 3y ago
  This becomes an issue if each department is not consistent with each other. Recently at an American university a department was banned for new tenure positions for two years after it was found that their hiring process differed from the university's as a whole, in a way that could get the university as a whole into legal trouble. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-action-after-faculty-hiring-process-inappropriately-used-race-as-a-factor/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-... Getting ahead of it with a universal policy to set a minimum bar doesn't sound like the worst idea.