Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two different and brief presentations, I hoped to share some insights that would be useful to the people currently at the helm, the people who can or must make decisions about AI policy. Many thanks to the NPD and AWTI for the invitations and the stimulating discussions!
As useful as LLMs are, I have always been skeptical of hype. It makes it really difficult to separate actual facts from all the hype. When you claim that a technology can do everything, built on stolen data and exploits the poor, I question the industry and it’s optics that says we will hype now and apologize later. That should not how institutions or corporations should operate. On hype and flimsy excuses.