But the point here isn't to fund AI research, it is to use AI to benefit concrete fields.

By funding AI slop, you're funding AI slop, not AI research, or, quote, "drive adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture"

False, research works on grasping at the possible but not quite knowing how. Slop has stumbled into accidental success on a number of occasions.

> research works on grasping at the possible but not quite knowing how

If these are public money, you want to reduce the blind grasping

> Slop has stumbled into accidental success on a number of occasions.

So, show me these occasions where AI slop led to "transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture."

Knowing the outcome of research before attempting it isn’t research, it’s development.

Being honest with taxpayers about what research is is probably possible unless the population is low IQ.