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Paddy, the temptation was just too much, I knew you couldn’t resist to reply doing your pathetic best to try and neutralise the post.

Oh, btw, you aren’t the only one that has an IT background. I have spent many years there before retirement.

Trying to debunk AI on posts that don’t meet your criteria is very childish and makes it very embarrassing for you and I guess many people will have seen through you today for what you truly are.

A post to everyone but Trouble, Paddy and STP, it will be just too much for them to take in and digest. Blood vessels will blow and a coronary is likely.

Of course, this is generated by AI, in the same spirit that Lloyds will be embracing it for the future.

Lloyds Banking Group is extensively embedding AI across its entire business operations and customer interactions, with its head of AI stating that 80% of customer interactions could be managed by AI within five years. The bank views AI as a core strategic enabler and has integrated it into numerous functions, from customer service to internal productivity and fraud detection.

Key Areas of AI Use

Customer-facing AI Financial Assistant: Lloyds is launching the UK's first large-scale, multi-feature AI-powered financial assistant for its 21 million mobile app customers, with a public rollout planned for early 2026. This "agentic AI" tool will provide 24/7 personalised coaching.

Employee Productivity: Nearly 30,000 employees are actively using Microsoft 365 Copilot to summarise documents, saving an average of 46 minutes per day.

Customer Service Support: The bank uses "Athena," a large-scale generative AI product, as a knowledge hub for 30,000 customer-facing colleagues. This has reduced average search times from 59 seconds to around 20 seconds, freeing up time for colleagues.

Operational Efficiency: AI is used to streamline back-office processes, such as handling customer complaints ("Merlin"), fraud investigations, and lending reviews. An AI algorithm has reduced the income verification step in mortgage applications from days to seconds.

Software Engineering: Nearly 5,000 engineers use GitHub Copilot to accelerate software development, converting 11,000 lines of code in half the expected time.

Strategy and Scope

Significant Investment: The bank announced a £4 billion investment in technology to support its AI ambitions.

Extensive Deployment: Lloyds has over 800 AI models in production across the group.

Talent and Training: The Group has hired over 4,000 people in tech and data roles and has an AI Centre of Excellence. A bespoke AI training programme has been developed in partnership with Cambridge University.

Partnerships: Lloyds collaborates with leading tech companies and universities, including Google Cloud, Microsoft, and the universities of Edinburgh and Bristol, to accelerate innovation. They have also invested in AI fintechs like Aveni.

In short, Lloyds Bank is "all in for AI" and is integrating it as a fundamental part of its business to drive efficiency, enhance customer experience, and ultimately, "Help Britain Prosper".

Paddy

“ so many”

Where are your data sources for this and can you name them?

How many do you think there are?

It is interesting how Sharon Graham is openly criticising the Labour party and in particular Starmers failing leadership. This is the union that refused to endorse the manifesto of Labour. SG is openly saying that the successor to Starmer has to tread a different path to the one it is on now otherwise it will be on a course to self destruction, it’s there already, isn’t it?

The party Is also described as being ‘rudderless’. Well she got that bang on, it has been rudderless from day one and will always be rudderless.

So what is SG’s answer to it all, more borrowing and increasing taxes further. We are back to the old Labour of years ago, another failed entity which has followers that never question what they are doing is wrong, just a bunch of zombies meandering in the wilderness.

All this will lead to more businesses failing, job losses, homes being repossessed and banks picking up an increased level of bad debt.

Let’s have a GE in the new year and get a party in that can get us out of the hell hole we are in now.

It’s pretty embarrassing news if you are a Labour supporter, I wouldn’t want to let people know I was supporting a failed party which is slowly destroying this country.

A right wing message then STP from a lefty union leader, it can’t get any better.

What I like about Trouble is, he lacks a sense of humour. He must be real scintillating company at a party, not.

Another lefty that likes to wind people up but can’t take it when on the receiving end.

The Labour government appears to be stalling on signing a deal to manufacture the next generation of helicopters at Yeovil.

Leonardo’s Yeovil plant is the UK’s last remaining helicopter manufacturer and employs around 3,300 people. The company has publicly warned that the future of that site is at risk unless it wins a major Ministry of Defence contract, namely the £1 billion New Medium Helicopter requirement to replace the ageing Puma helicopters.

Leonardo has communicated this risk directly to the UK government and highlighted that without new orders it cannot sustain the Yeovil operations in the long term.

Instead of growth we are looking at accelerated stagnation.

Merry Christmas to everyone as well, and a Happy New Year for 2026

The ‘Dorf’

Paddy - it’s interesting because when I use it you are critical and dismissive of my posts, as if anything I post that has been a result from AI has to instantaneously be discarded, but it sounds like when you use it that is OK, oh well, double standards, just like Trouble.

And yes, I have also used it for some SQL work I still get involved in, especially linking three tables together.

HD - I guess it’s all about how you present it in a valid situation.

Trouble

“ My earlier point has been proven.”

Which was?

Gray1

Management’s niece lives in Strasbourg and she says we must go over to visit and see the family and Strasbourg itself. We did see it briefly back in August on our great rail trip to Switzerland. It was on our return and we rolled in late afternoon and had a meal in the evening. The annoying bit was that we were literally only about 400 yards from them but just couldn’t fit a quick visit in.

I know Paddy is dismissive of ChatGPT but I asked it to set up a seven day driving itinerary around Strasbourg with all the typical sight seeing places with hotels, timings between all places and it came back with something that would have taken hours to do in about 10 seconds. I will look to see if a few searches of my own pick a few places that may be a better option and run it again. What’s not to like about AI?

Gray1 - makes sense now re Cyprus. ‘Management’ had arranged for us to go with our daughter, husband and two grandkids to the Albert Hall Christmas Carol service, so missed all the early banter.

‘Management’ used the Lloyd’s dividend account to treat them to a day out. Not only does it provide us with several holidays home and abroad but it allows us to do other treats as well.

Next year ‘management’ is planning some upgrades with the increased divi. Crete already booked for easing into first overseas start in May. A river cruise on the cards in Portugal. A 10 day break in Strasbourg to see relations and tour around and then another one or two week breaks in the UK. Lastly a week in Nuremberg at Christmas.

Roll in 2026, what’s not to like with the increased dividend.

You raised Cyprus for no reason at all, it didn’t have any direct connection with beatings and you in the UK, it was deflecting for whatever reason you wanted to introduce it, so what connection does it have with your case? Have I missed something?

As to who US is, well I will let your mind go rampant with names, good luck.

Trouble- I like to be inclusive, like we and us.

Bit like you with Paddy, STP and ASI.

So Cyprus was deflecting then.

In 1967 corporal punishment was first considered unlawful, but generally ignored.

It took until 2013 to finally get the loophole closed.

You would have thought the ECHR would have stepped in years beforehand to stop it. Why didn’t it?

Trouble - I don’t have a dog in the fight for either of HD’s issues.

Never commented or responded to any postings, so neutral.

Trouble - I didn’t mean on the body I meant geographically, you mentioned Cyprus, was that deflection or ?

Trouble - going to give us an update then on where the beatings took place and over which time frame?

Silence tells a sad story

So where did these beatings take place and over which years?

If, allegedly, they were used to it then why do it if you knew it wasn’t going to achieve anything.

It just tells me you got great personal satisfaction for administering it and looked forward to it. Were you were the number one go-to person for dealing with these cases?