High-Tech ‘Golden Triangle’ Brews Storm in Tea Cup: AI Investments Skewed!
Grab your biscuits, folks, because we’ve got a perfect brewing storm for your afternoon tea chat. The high-tech ‘golden triangle’ (no, we’re not talking Bermuda, nor Harry Potter, but Oxford, Cambridge, and London) is gobbling up investments in artificial intelligence like a starving student at a Sunday roast. Meanwhile, the rest of England is left scavenging for the leftovers, which, if you ask me, might just lead to some classic British ‘tutting’. And by ‘tutting’, I mean “deepening regional inequalities” as eloquently put by research!
What’s all this fuss about?
- Investments in AI are “profoundly skewed” towards the ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. That’s like winning the Triwizard Tournament before it even started!
- These lopsided scales risk intensifying the already existing disparities across regions. Economic teeter-totter, anyone?
- Ministers are all song and dance about leveling up the country and narrowing the gap between the whipped cream at the top and the scraps at the bottom of the scone.
- However, the swift rollout of generative AI could do a little jig and step on that aspiration, says the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW). Squashed dreams, or what?
Chipping in with Final Thoughts…
Ah, the sweet, sweet irony. Artificial intelligence, the very tool we created to boost our productivity, and which has been hailed as the great leveler, is now playing favorites in England. Reinforcing historical power centers like Oxford, Cambridge, and London while leaving the rest of England biting the dust (presuming they can still afford dust, that is). Let’s hope ministers manage to sprinkle some AI investment fairy dust across the rest of England because, as us Brits know too well, it’s never fun to be left out of a good party. Now, have some tea, cheerio!
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/clustering-of-ai-firms-in-south-and-east-of-england-will-foil-levelling-up-report
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