The UK's AI strategy is missing one crucial piece: compute
Britain is starting to treat AI as a matter of national security as well as economic growth. Last week at the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced a new AI partnership between the UK and US, designed to protect critical national infrastructure from sea lanes to airspace.
It is an important development, particularly as AI moves from chatbots and productivity tools into defense and other systems where reliability really matters. But underneath it sits a rather basic question that receives far less attention: where will the computing power come from?
AI and Financial Inclusion Strategist at io.net.
We have become accustomed to talking about AI in terms of models. Britain has strong universities, a healthy startup ecosystem and a growing collection of companies building products around the technology.
Yet their work all depends on the same thing: reliable access to compute. Models have to be trained somewhere, inference...
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