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Stuart Mackintosh

Dr Stuart P M Mackintosh is Executive Director of G30, the consultative group on international economic and monetary affairs, and author of Creating the National Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Pound: Establishing an Institutional Pathway and a Timeline for Success

Dr Stuart P M Mackintosh is Executive Director of G30, the consultative group on international economic and monetary affairs, and author of Creating the National Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Pound: Establishing an Institutional Pathway and a Timeline for Success

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Rishi Sunak with Elon Musk

Stuart P.M. Mackintosh: Foolish, shocking and dangerous – the rush for AI riches

The proposed solution is foolish, shocking, and dangerous – the use of synthetic data. Firms including Anthropic are addressing the lack of new data by using one LLM to generate synthetic (fake) data, this is then used by another LLM, which makes a judgement on whether the former LLM’s data is correct one not. This construct is potentially ominous and problematic.