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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alex Hern

UK needs its own ‘BritGPT’ or will face an uncertain future, MPs hear

Microsoft ChatGPT and Google Bard have stolen a march on AI development.
Microsoft ChatGPT and Google Bard have stolen a march on AI development. Photograph: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock

The UK needs to support the creation of a British version of ChatGPT, MPs were told on Wednesday, or the country would further lose the ability to determine its own fate.

Speaking to the Commons science and technology committee, Adrian Joseph, BT’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer, said the government needed to have a national investment in “large language models”, the AI that underpins services such as ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Google’s Bard.

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