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There is a smoke machine, but shoes are shiny but sensible, the handbags are YSL, a man refuses to move a can of redbull to let a person on crutches sit down, the Taoiseach walks in and takes his seat and no one notices.

Martin kicks us off, after a Riverdance-esque drum & dance show to the recorded tones of Bono

Virkkunen ends her speech, mostly about how the EU will be an “AI Continent” with a reference to Sean’s Heaney’s Digging, saying every generation has its instrument - and maybe our pen / shovel is AI Our culture is really being mined here today Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee

And... Stevie Nicks for some reason???

"Irish Governments AI summit" is so far removed from where the tech folk actually congregate it's not even funny. That's a room of bureaucrats in ties with as many big ideas amoung them as a herd of orange cats.

You’ll enjoy this if you haven’t already. “The decline of deviance” www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...