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It looks like Britain is joining the ranks of and to develop its own set of AI tools to tackle problems in two sectors notorious for slow adoption: education and health care.

The country is investing around $125 million (or 100 pounds) into developing foundational models similar to the language models is known for.

Just to help you understand how far (or not far) this money goes, ChatGPT rival nabbed $124 million in Series A funding back in 2021, per 附近上门 data.

Compared to the literally billions of funding into AI since ChatGPT broke the tech industry in 2022, Britain鈥檚 humble allotment is a mere drop in the bucket.

But while Microsoft is using ChatGPT to bolster its search engine Bing and Google does the same with Google Bard, Britain鈥檚 investment 鈥渨ill build the UK鈥檚 鈥榮overeign鈥� national capabilities so our public services can benefit from the transformational impact of this type of AI,鈥� .

The potential for AI in the public sector

Venture capitalists, startup founders and AI enthusiasts have long waxed poetic about the ways AI will dramatically change technology for the public good (though I鈥檝e mostly seen it used to create marketing content and deepfakes of and ).

Health care, thanks to a pandemic-era push into embracing technology, is experimenting with AI already. Microsoft鈥檚 AI-powered notetaking tool can be used in hospitals to ease burnout . Another, , raised $12.5 million in 2022 for a similar tool.

This actually seems to be the most popular application for generative AI in health care, which is good, because I don鈥檛 want to hear anything about a Dr. ChatGPT (though it did ).

Speaking of passing the medical licensing exam, students are using generative AI platforms to write essays and answer homework questions . But just as the calculator forced math teachers to change how they taught equations, some education experts say there鈥檚 room to embrace generative AI in a way that forces students to ask critical questions.

鈥淲ith AI set to contribute billions of pounds to UK GDP, the work of the taskforce will help deliver on the Prime Minister鈥檚 priorities to grow our economy, whilst generating better outcomes for people across the country through better public services,鈥� the press release said.