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Government to create new lab to keep UK in the fast lane on AI breakthroughs

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A new UK AI research lab will be created to unlock breakthroughs which could transform healthcare, transport, science and everyday technology.

  • New government-backed lab will support transformational AI breakthroughs to be made in UK – with the country’s AI experts invited to pitch their biggest ideas
  • up to £40 million for blue sky AI research that UK researchers are perfectly placed to pursue, plus access to large-scale computing power to drive cutting-edge research
  • fundamental research could tackle the basic flaws that still plague AI models, like hallucinations, short memory and unpredictability – and unlock new capabilities for AI

    • A new UK AI research lab will be created to unlock breakthroughs which could transform healthcare, transport, science and everyday technology.

    In a tiny space of time AI has gone from being the staple of science fiction, to an everyday tool used in schools, hospitals and workplaces worldwide. That includes using it to screen patients for cancer and design better batteries.

    But we are still only scratching the surface of this technology’s potential. Ambitious work that aims to solve longstanding problems in how AI works – such as hallucinations, unreliable memory and unpredictable reasoning – and to develop new approaches that could make future AI systems far more accurate, transparent and trustworthy, could make it possible for AI to do even more.

    Bold, high-risk scientific work of this sort is precisely what the lab will support - backed by £40 million in UK government funding being confirmed today (Wednesday 4 March). These are efforts that often have a challenging path to success, but this is a task that the UK’s wealth of top-tier researchers are perfectly placed pursue. And with ambitions high, those ideas that do reach fruition could be gamechangers.

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