First robot Prime Minister

Today, telegraph has published a very encouraging story about the first ever robot supermodel been unveiled by Japanese engineers.

According to the reports, the robot costed around £1.4 million and has 30 motors in her body that allow her to walk and move her arms as well as eight motors on her face allowing her to create facial expressions such as anger and surprise. It means she can imitate the gait and pose of models.

The report highlighted the technology gap between Japan and United Kingdom, which had seen it's own artificial intelligence project, launched with much fanfare about a year ago, falling on hard times recently.

With costs of the project nearing £1 trillion, the robot aptly named Gordon Brown ( with initials GB highlighting not only the fact that it was invented by British scientists, but also that it has been subsidised by taxpayer money ), is fully incapable of creating any realistically looking facial expression, of showing any emotions or developing any kind of independent thinking.

When programmed by experienced engineers, it can alternate between simple sentences which are pronounced in reasonably convincing monotonic voice. However, the limitations of the system don't allow it to be re-programmed frequently, leaving robot to repeat same sentences for periods of up to 3-4 months.

As it's Japanese counterfeit, it was originally designed to be used to entertain visitors in amusements parks - however, as the cost of the project spiralled out of control, it was decided that the country can't afford to maintain it along with bearing the costs of running the government and the product was launched as a live version.

Many experts expressed doubts as to whether enough testing was performed and potential damage costs estimated before Downing street deployment took place. However, government authorities assured at the time that all the necessary precautions were taken.

After a tumultous year, during which the robot's shortcomings were well exposed, the experts agree that the robot completely lacks any self-learning capacity, which is thought to be a cornerstone of any successfully developing artificial intelligence.

Initially, the project was supposed to run for 2 years, until the summer of 2010, but now questions are raised whether the country can afford the obviously failed experiment to continue for another year.