To be the world leader in the quantum economy. An ambitious goal that the United Kingdom has set itself. The country announced during the presentation of its budget for the spring of 2023 an endowment of 900 million pounds sterling (just over a billion euros) to meet this objective, the British newspaper points out. The Guardian. This budget should make it possible to finance an “exascale supercomputer”, a computer equipped with very high computing power.
This supercomputer should eventually make it possible to establish real competition in terms of artificial intelligence. With why not a “BritGPT”, an equivalent of ChatGPT in English time. The objective of the United Kingdom is, therefore, to become competitive with the pioneering countries in technology.
One million pound reward
The supercomputer of the future can be used to train artificial intelligence, but also for projects not related to technology, such as science or defense. The objective will also be to be more alert about global warming or the new drugs used by the population.
The will of the United Kingdom is, above all, not to suffer, or even become sovereign, over the language models, the technologies used in particular by OpenAI for ChatGPT. The country will thus establish a bonus for innovative people or companies in the field of artificial intelligence.
This award will be called the “Manchester Award”, in homage to the “Manchester Baby”, the first minicomputer, created in 1948. At the time, the computer was the first in the world to be able to run an electronically stored program. in memory of him. . It took him 52 minutes and 3.5 million calculations to accomplish this feat. A far cry from the few milliseconds it now takes computers to respond to multiple requests from Internet users.
Source: BFM TV
