Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top Universities (telegraph.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 4, 2018 @03:25AM from the closer-look dept.

British outlet The Telegraph reports: Britain faces an artificial intelligence "brain drain" as Silicon Valley raids its top universities for talent, data compiled by The Telegraph shows. Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK's top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms. More than a tenth have moved to North American universities and nearly a tenth are currently working for other smaller US companies. Meanwhile just one in seven have joined British start-ups.

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Bad for Britain by 110010001000 · 2018-09-04 03:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Britain is falling behind on Go-playing technology. Pretty soon they won't be able to compete in Go-playing tournaments. Definitely more government money needs to spent on funding British AI startups.