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What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?
What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?
While the median founder, investor, or civil servant will cheerfully roll their eyes at the mention of the ATI, what’s less understood is why the UK’s national AI institute has proven such a flop, despite spending over quarter of a billion pounds since its inception. Then director and chief executive, Adrian Smith said, “We have delivered numerous briefings to government officials, hosted training and contributed to several roundtables on this topic, as well as offering commentary through media and broadcast interviews.” The Turing 2.0 relaunch strategy from the same year contains a single reference to LLMs across its 66 pages. Neil Lawrence, who holds a DeepMind-sponsored professorship, slated the UK government’s “appalling” discussion of AGI and accused it of celebrating big tech companies for “solving problems that no one ever knew they had”.
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