The speech of artificial intelligence experts came during a session in the British Parliament, on Wednesday, according to the British newspaper “The Guardian”.
Adrian Joseph, data and artificial intelligence officer at the British BT group specializing in communications, said that the government needs to provide investments to support the large language models, on which the “ChatGPT” robot is based, which produces coherent texts within seconds.
He added, speaking to the Science and Technology Committee in the House of Commons, that without this technology, Britain would suffer a lot in the field of competition at the international level, expecting that his country might lose to major companies and perhaps to China, and eventually lag behind in fields such as cybersecurity and health care. .
arms race
He likened what is happening in terms of developing fast-performance chatbots to a “massive arms race”, and said that this race had existed for some time, but its pace has increased a lot recently.
Expert Dame Wendy Hill, who co-directed the British government’s review of artificial intelligence in 2017, agreed with the view that the development of a chatbot was needed.
She said, “If we do not do this, we will turn into a country that provides the service industry only,” noting that this can be avoided by harnessing and employing technology to direct jobs and create jobs.
But what hinders Britain from progress in this field is that excellence in the field of artificial intelligence requires expensive tools, and the lack of these tools prevents British researchers from competing with major American companies that receive large funding from the government.
A research paper concluded that given that artificial intelligence systems will become an essential part of the economy and society, this means that they will threaten Britain’s national security and economic competitiveness, as it will become completely dependent on external providers.
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