Supercomputer, artificial intelligence (AI) exclusive park, AI big infrastructure… … On the 12th local time, the Stamer government has laid out a series of grand ambitions to make the UK a“World leader” in AI and unleash a wave of“Supercharged” economic growth. Public opinion caused a high degree of concern about the embarrassment is that some British internet users seem to be particularly“Sober” on the matter, that the Labor government’s“Pie” this drawing a little big.
According to the Daily Mail of January 12, British Prime Minister Stamer will unveil the government’s more detailed“Ai Opportunity Action Plan” on January 13. Britain will“Liberate” the AI industry and“Inject AI into the lifeblood of the country”, the country’s leadership said in a statement on the government’s website Thursday. Britain is set to achieve a 20-fold increase in AI computing power by 2030, making the country a“World leader” in artificial intelligence. The Labour government’s“Ai Blueprint” is based on an industry report, the AI Opportunity Action Plan, drawn up by Matt Clifford, the government’s adviser on Artificial Intelligence. The government is said to have fully adopted the report’s 50 recommendations and, once implemented, will embark on a major“AI infrastructure” initiative, starting with the creation of AI parks. The first park will be in Oxfordshire, where the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is located, the Guardian reported. At the same time, the UK will work on“Supercomputers” that will provide the computing power for artificial intelligence. It will also build AI big data centres to train AI models using public information drawn from official databases, such as patient information held by the National Health Service. Although the move raised concerns about privacy, the government said it had“Strong privacy protection measures” and promised that personal data would“Never be obtained by private companies”.
Moreover, the Stamer administration’s latest move appears to mark a significant shift in the industry, particularly as the key statement that the government would give its full support prompted a positive response from tech companies. Hardman, Chief Executive of Microsoft UK, said the economy was being driven by the government’s“Ambitious vision” for AI and that the company was doing all it could to make that vision a reality. Three large technology companies-Vantage data centre, Nscale, the UK’s leading AI technology company, and KYNDRYL, an IT infrastructure services company-have pledged to invest # 14bn in the UK’s AI infrastructure, and created more than 13,000 jobs.
However, the Labour government’s“Ai Vision” was soon met with scepticism from the opposition. Tory MP Alan Mak said: “Labour’s plan is not to make the UK a tech superpower, they are just playing the same old game in the digital age.” Mak added: “The AI industry is really promising, but Labour’s lacklustre master plan and lack of economic know-how is bound to leave the UK ‘behind’ .”
There was media speculation that Stamer was proposing an“AI blueprint” to cover up the dire state of the British economy. In the comments section of the Daily Mail, there was also widespread pessimism about the government’s latest vision. One person wrote that the UK“Doesn’t even understand the accounting software”, it is“Brave enough” to leave many life-and-death matters to the AI. More prosaic questions were asked: “The development of AI requires a huge supply of electricity. The UK is currently highly dependent on the EU for electricity imports. where is the spare power to support such a huge project?”