Steve Brown

But I think broad alliances with the US and China are probably smart for the UK.

It did make some mistakes.

You're talking about the figure robot.

Right.

They put it, yeah, they actually gave up after 200 hours.

They originally wanted to see, could it do an eight hour shift?

And they let it run for nine days and said, okay, 200 hours, let's call it done.

And they put it up against one of the best human... I mean, all it was doing was taking packages as they came off a line and orientating them so that the barcode was down so it could be read on a scanner as it went over a conveyor belt, which is mind-numbing work.

But robot doesn't care.

They had a human up against that robot...

And the human marginally beat it by fractions of a second.

Come on, the humans!

But does a human really want to do that?

No, thank you.

um from that point of view than it is to maybe in London or anywhere else really yeah and I'm I'm not in the heart of Silicon Valley I'm actually in the Silicon Forest up in Oregon so I'm in the state north of California but I venture down there quite a lot I have a lot of friends down there I spend a lot of time down there when I was working at Intel um the buzz in Silicon Valley is completely different than anywhere else in the world the energy there I mean

If you want to just go to any coffee shop and you will hear people talking about AI, you will overhear them all over the place.

And it's just that's what everybody's focused on.

The people who are there live and breathe it.

And that's where all these startups are growing up.

And the UK needs to have that same kind of startup excitement.