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I’m at the Govt’s AI Summit, reminiscing about when tech conferences had people with purple hair & big ideas Overheard conversations between grey suited people this morning are how backs are holding up after multi-hop trips from Bxl, & the €900 someone paid Ryanair to get here

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.

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

Google’s Demis Hassabis “Our AI systems are good at solving problems, but it’s up to the scientists and artists to pose the questions”

Mairead McGuinness nods as Zalando and Siemens talk about value creation, application layers and 8% increases in inventory something something Meanwhile the guy who had to fly through Munich appears to be falling asleep, and whoever the Redbull can was holding a seat for never showed up

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