[kolikotime]

Wide ranging restrictions such as these are being tactically applied throughout the world. Germany and France enacted similar policies last year. As Ian Hogarth sketched out last year, we're entering an era in which AI becomes part and parcel of a country's geopolitics, an era of AI Nationalism so to speak.

Hogarth expressed the opinion that Google's purchase of DeepMind(A UK based company initially) is going to be seen increasingly in the future as an amazing coup, a unit with some of the world's greatest minds on Deep learning allowed to be sold to a foreign conglomerate. I have to say as time goes by and governments realize how strategic their AI community is, I agree.

[justicezyx]

Well, if it's not deep mind, Google can buy some other companies and let them use the world's most advanced AI compute infrastructure and who knows what they would do.

I do not doubt deep minds talents, but your comment seems to me an overstatement on its value.

[blattimwind]

> Germany and France enacted similar policies last year.

Source?

[Semaphor]

Searched and couldn't find anything for Germany.

[wbl]

It's the UK and the US. The UK traded VX for the hydrogen bomb and gets Trident from us with their warheads on top.