Palace insiders confirm the Prince found this “unhelpful” but “very relatable”
By Isla Campbell | Central London. Dedicated to covering the Crown fairly, humorously, and without being put in the Tower.
Sources: Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
A Royal Encounter With Artificial Intelligence
Following the arrival of OpenAI in London, I have been reliably informed — by which I mean I am speculating with great confidence — that Prince William attempted to understand what artificial intelligence actually does and was advised to “search online for more information.”
His Royal Highness reportedly found this response “somewhat circular” and “less helpful than James,” James being his equerry, who explained it as “like a very fast, very confident intern who occasionally makes things up.” The Prince is said to have replied, “Ah. So, politics then.” Nobody laughed. Everybody wanted to.
The Palace and the Algorithm
The Royal Family’s relationship with technology has been a journey. They got email in the nineties. They got Instagram in the twenty-tens. They used it to post photos of wildflowers and then got into enormous trouble anyway. Technology, the Palace has learned, is something that makes everything easier right up until the moment it makes everything much, much worse, at which point you release a statement and go to Balmoral.
The BBC’s royal correspondents are, I am certain, even now working out how to explain neural networks using metaphors involving corgis and the Changing of the Guard. I would read that piece. I would read it twice.
My Modest Proposal
Let the monarchy adopt AI fully and openly. Let there be a Royal Chatbot that answers constitutional queries at 3am. Let it respond to republican petitions with patient, measured, infinitely diplomatic non-answers. Let it apologise without meaning it, which AI is now apparently trained to do. The Crown has been doing that since 1688. This is simply modernisation.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/openai-opens-london-office/
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