No 10 suggests UK still EU member in tweet gaffe

Downing Street has had to close a tweet, aft it suggested the UK is inactive a subordinate of the European Union.

In a station connected X, the caller sanction for Twitter, the authoritative No 10 relationship utilized a graphic saying the UK "is location to doubly arsenic galore AI companies arsenic immoderate different EU country".

It was deleted and a caller graphic, saying "any EU country" instead, was reposted 45 minutes later.

The UK near the trading bloc successful January 2020, aft the 2016 referendum.

The station was promoting the government's concern successful artificial intelligence, including an announcement of £13m for usage of the exertion successful healthcare specified arsenic surgical robotics.

The thread besides highlighted the assignment of experts Matt Clifford and Jonathan Black, tasked with starring the preparations for the archetypal large planetary acme connected the liable usage of AI, which the UK is acceptable to big aboriginal this year.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said helium wants the UK to pb efforts to guarantee the benefits of AI are "harnessed for the bully of humanity".

He has pledged £1bn successful backing implicit the adjacent 10 years to assistance the UK go a planetary hub for AI, and founded a UK taskforce with a remit of maximising the benefits of the tech portion keeping it safe.

But immoderate experts person questioned the UK's enactment credentials successful the field.

Downing Street's station pointed retired that starring AI steadfast DeepMind was founded successful the UK much than a decennary ago, portion OpenAI and Anthropic AI some opened their archetypal planetary bureau here.

However, DeepMind was sold successful 2014 to US elephantine Google and immoderate experts person suggested it is easier for tech start-ups to turn successful the US.

The word AI covers machine systems capable to bash tasks that would usually request quality intelligence.

This includes chatbots capable to recognize questions and respond with human-like answers, and systems susceptible of recognising objects successful pictures.