So much techno-utopianism about AI, particularly from @InstituteGC, in recent months.
Even the tiniest amount of experience of delivering digital/data/AI systems in the public sector would reveal it's a bit more complicated than that.
🧵 Ten challenges that need to be tackled
Just reading through @InstituteGC's report on reimagining DWP, and it's so completely unserious.
It fails to engage with any of the realities of data/AI in government. You may as well replace each instance of "AI" with "magic" for all the sense it makes.
https://t.co/eNLwOhSy2y
People who think that there's some advantage in scattering team members all over the planet (or even locally) need to look very closely at this chart (From @scottwambler https://t.co/No50Lzegoo).
@DanielW_Kiwi Because performance of cursors across a high latency link may be worse than downloading the entire dataset and doing your filters and joins locally.