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there's every chance that this will be a fiasco, but UK is low on options and needs to take long shots like this.
by hunglee2 2y ago
there's every chance that this will be a fiasco, but UK is low on options and needs to take long shots like this.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoIt is not a long shot, it is hot air. Remember that the UK is going to be the leader in freetrade, leader in battery tech, leader in tree-planting, leader in EV, and have its own GPS system... and now also leader in AI! This announcement is especially good for the likes of Nvidia, though, because a plan "to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030" means spending that money on Nvidia's hardware...
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoHot air? >> Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects. A "multibillion-pound investment". That's where they're going to put all the money they didn't spend on the winter fuel allowance, lifting the two-child benefit cap, green promises broken on the wheel etc etc. This is a complete disaster and a huge squandering of public money.
- ZiiS 2y agoTBH 20x and Moore's law really only means replacing whatever H100 they have today with Nvidia's 2030 cards. Replacing AI chips at least every five years surly has to be the default assumption.