Google DeepMind's Andreas Kirsch proposes a dedicated frontier AI laboratory for the United Kingdom and Europe to boost regional compute

@BlackHC Deepmexit?

@BlackHC Urgently

@BlackHC yup it makes completely no sense by foreign nationals are working at google, anthropic or openAI. why the hell is Demis Hassabis at Google (USA) as a UK National, knowing this problem will come in the future.

@BlackHC Yes. Like, many months ago. But, bar that, asap…

@BlackHC that is a massive missing piece of the puzzle right now

@BlackHC 1. build compute yesterday 2. get the best people in a frontier ai lab filthy rich building a competitive open source model 3. subsidise enterprises post training specialized models for their use cases on top of that model.

@BlackHC But once a frontier AI lab gets big enough, it gets eaten by another entity. 🫪

I can't speculate for him but if you want you be part of the effort that discovers AGI/ASI there is a bit of a prisoner's dilemma where it's unlikely that someone outside the US/without US compute resources will be able to get there, so you have a lock-in effect

Even if in the end, it means you might still get locked out

@Paperviewr @BlackHC Demis is not doing anything wrong. Working at international companies headquarted in the US is not the problem. The Trump administration is the problem here.

@BlackHC investment and policy wise or just the hardware availability? feels like Europe talks about it a lot but execution always lags

@BlackHC whats stopping it though? regulatory hell or just not enough money flowing into the compute?

@BlackHC fair point but where is the capital gonna come from for all that compute