Is this a future we should want? A raft of American tech companies have opened their wallets to fund Britain’s AI industry. The government is ecstatic. But not everyone is so keen.
UK to be an ‘AI superpower’ by 2030
Chips are up: Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive of AI chipmaker Nvidia, says he is taking a stake in NScale, a UK cloud computing company which, he predicts, will earn revenues of up to £50bn over the next six years. Glossary
Infrastructure - The basic systems and services that a country needs to keep it going.
Supercomputers - Extremely powerful computers designed to perform massive numbers of calculations at incredibly high speeds. They are much faster and more capable than ordinary personal computers or even standard servers.
Metrics - Measurements used to assess performance.
Dementia - A syndrome associated with memory loss and other declining brain functions.
Icon - A person or thing considered worthy of worship.
Windfall - An unexpected, unearned, or sudden gain or advantage.