The UK has long been horribly short of teachers because the pay and conditions are rubbish. The incoming Labour government has no other tricks up their sleeves — so they’re going all-in on the Tony…
  • arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    The only bright spot is that the new educational AI model doesn’t exist yet and there’s plenty of time for the whole project to go sideways before launch.

    Do you really think that will stop them?

    • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      I have faith in the ability of the UK public sector (or rather, the relentlessly incompetent outsources they hire) to catastrophically fuck up delivery of any software project.

      For example, capita has already lined up at the trough: https://www.capita.co.uk/news/capita-advances-approach-next-generation-ai-microsoft

      If you’re unfamiliar with capita, that’s probably a good thing. I’m not aware that they’ve ever been successful in anything, other than their continued ability to fleece the government. They’re basically too big to fail in the uk, because HMG’s procurement processes mean that they basically can’t stop giving them money.

        • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          To my limited knowledge, no, for various values of “someone”. It is just a sort of malign beige juggernaut that’s shitty all by itself without needing external direction.