The U.K. government has announced a national AI strategy — its first dedicated package aimed at boosting the country’s capabilities in and around machine learning technologies over the longer term.
It says it hopes the strategy will lead to an increase in the number and types of AIs being developed and commercialized in the U.K. over the next 10 years.
The plan to prioritize and “level up” development and applications of artificial intelligence follows earlier industrial and digital strategies — which talked up the promise of AI. But Boris Johnson’s government is now inching onward, announcing a 10-year plan to invest in making Britain “a global AI superpower”, as the government’s PR puts it — by targeting support at areas like upskilling and reskilling in the hopes of reaping AI-driven economic rewards down the line.
Whether there’s much of policy substance here, as yet, looks debatable.
Continue reading: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/uk-announces-a-national-strategy-to-level-up-ai/
It says it hopes the strategy will lead to an increase in the number and types of AIs being developed and commercialized in the U.K. over the next 10 years.
The plan to prioritize and “level up” development and applications of artificial intelligence follows earlier industrial and digital strategies — which talked up the promise of AI. But Boris Johnson’s government is now inching onward, announcing a 10-year plan to invest in making Britain “a global AI superpower”, as the government’s PR puts it — by targeting support at areas like upskilling and reskilling in the hopes of reaping AI-driven economic rewards down the line.
Whether there’s much of policy substance here, as yet, looks debatable.
Continue reading: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/uk-announces-a-national-strategy-to-level-up-ai/
