There goal is to steal Deepmind and Stability AI an companies AI talent. They are more likely to be successful if those people don't have to move their homes whilsts moving jobs.
So London is their best choice.
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It pretty funny that US congress thinks China needs US money to make progress in a industry, any industry. An china has kept up with AI simply because why Nvidia newest chips might make it cheaper and faster to train models, old hardware will do just fine, it will just takes longest and need more money. An most of the major breakthroughs in AI by the likes of Google an other companies and universities has been and publish online before US started it cracked down.
They seem to claim that the images were copied on to a seperate harddrive and then use to train the AI, Stability AI doesn't seem to deny that, in fact they seem to be saying the responsibility for this issue doesn't lay with them, that lays with a non profit in Germany where they obtain their training data from.
The intuitive I tried to apply for, the people who was running it and the government who set up lack common sense, they wanted me to attend a meeting up in Ipswich because I live in Essex I come under East England and Ipswich which is 2hrs by public transport was their closest offices, instead of one 30 minutes away from me because that office pot of funding was dedicated to people who live in London/South East.
An that was a 4hr round travel for a 30 minutes introductory meeting, there would have to be other meetings as well.
1 - Done, Already mandated by the government legislation.
2 - Done, the law now require all charges to take chip and pin
3 - Done RAC already have mobile car battery rechargers https://www.rac.co.uk/innovation/ev-boost
So all your demands are being met already. Anything else you want to add on to your list.
You say that but Branson is now working with Rolls Royce and Reaction Engines on producing a engine for his Mach 3 supersonic jet.
It no guarantee but I could eventually this partnership being expanded to include the construction of a SSTO vehicle at some point, after Virgin Galactic has run it sub orbital service for a couple of years and is turning over a profit.
I also think it only a matter of time before Virgin Galactic is merge back with Virgin orbit.
Also someone other than me has got to be thinking Virgin Galactic and stratolaunch would be another good merger with such a aircraft capable of handling Virgin Orbit launches and possible multiple SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rockets at once all with the same vehicle.
Universities will now have to review their chosen students some pupils who were awarded better grades than their mocks will now have only their mocks grade which might not be good enough for that university. Expect a lot of changes and a lot of anger. Luckily for universities they have got a slight get out of jail free card in that the number of foreign students are expected to be low, freeing up spaces for english students this year.
All sides in this debate is playing project fear card.
Fact is, if the chinese want to spy on us they are going to spy on us, Britain not having a huawei of our own going around installing gear on mobile networks around the world didn't stop GCHQ from hacking country wide mobile phone systems , it isn't going to stop the chinese. This is why GCHQ just don't about what equipment they use, they know if they can hack anything, the chinese can.
You would lose any such vote. No under the stupid rules you put in place but under rules that would be written by the electoral commission and where someone who isn't making a vote is presume to vote no, I might not turn up to vote but I have no problem with the technology.