Tim Bradshaw
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126 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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But I think the idea with this kind of moonshot trend is that the biggest hits are going to get bigger.
And so you've got to be more ambitious in what you're backing.
They require a lot more capital to get off the ground because they're working in the physical world.
And they're also harder technically to pull off.
And so first you have to solve the science problem and
Then, assuming you do solve the science problem, you have to sell it.
And the commercialization risk of this technology is as hard as it would be for any other venture-backed company.
Just because you have a great scientific or engineering founder doesn't mean that they'll be great at commercialization.
And so the risk is multiplied and the capital involved, the capital at risk is multiplied.
It's go big or go home.
I don't think there's a huge risk of fallout for regular people on the street from this.
We're talking about tens of billions of dollars a year going into this deep tech outside of AI.
And so I think the risk really is that if the AI boom slows down, then all of these other bets will be off.
That will stop the overflow of capital into these other kind of slightly crazier and more ambitious ideas.
Thank you.
So Google bought DeepMind back in 2014 for, I think, somewhere around 400 million pounds.
And so pretty soon after that deal happened, there was a fair amount of hand-wringing in the UK tech community about whether what was clearly a very, very promising British AI startup should have been allowed to be sold to foreign ownership.
It was very obvious that Demis Hassabis and his co-founders were doing really important work.
And Demis has said that they sold because they needed huge amounts of computing infrastructure and Google's deep pockets to fund the kind of research that they wanted to do, which was to build this once sci-fi idea, but now seemingly quite close idea of an artificial general intelligence, an AI that can do anything that a human can do.
I think the whole concept of AI sovereignty has been bubbling up ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and governments around the world that weren't American or perhaps Chinese realized that if AI develops into the economic force that many people in Silicon Valley believe it can be, then they're going to be at a disadvantage because their economies are going to be hollowed out by American businesses and a very small number of American businesses.
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