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Calling all, um, 'general AI' practitioners: Blighty needs you for public sector glory
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/28/ukgov_general_ai_contract/
The UK government's procurement arm has floated the creation of a framework to allow public sector techies to buy something that hasn't been invented yet: artificial general intelligence, er... general artificial intelligence.
OK, so the wording in the prior information notice (PIN) from Crown Commercial Services is perhaps wilfully misinterpreted by El Reg. It is likely to mean AI in general, rather than sentient software that can do multiple tasks like a human and is but a distant reality.