I love this boy – and he is a boy, 16 years old, younger than both of my sons! (19 and 17)… And he has taken the phenomenally brave decision to suspend his GCSE’s for one year and moved to San Francisco in order to pursue his dream of setting up a visionary AI company, called Beem. 16 years old and he has already secured a $1 million dollar start up investment, and formal acknowledgement that in any venture created he will be majority shareholder!
He has just spoken on Radio 4’S, “The World at One”, with Sarah Montague, and given one of the slickest most naturally professional interviews I’ve ever heard. Modest and ambitious; a genius but with concern for the application of his Project before any personal consideration… He’s meeting our Prime Minister tomorrow, and already has the maturity and insight to say to Keir Starmer, that it is an awful shame that he, as literally a fledgling entrepreneur, has had to relocate to San Francisco instead of developing his vision here, with both state backing if necessary and more importantly, state facilitation and the freedom to act without second guessing an amateurish tax regime that appears to be learning on the job.
He says, “It’s built on something called proactive context which means it learns about what you do or what you like and it can remind you to do certain things. It keeps the human in the loop as much as possible but handles all the grunt work.”
It is acknowledged internationally that the UK is a world leader in creative applications of AI, and we have a pedigree of pioneering successes in the tech sector – but I’m with Christina caffery in arguing that the overbearing attention on the promotion of competition at the expense of fostering the growth of international titans, in any given sector, lowers the growth potential and Investment scale necessary for achieving the supremacy the we have seen in some of the US tech giants. Not all tech wizzes need to be “Tech Bros”… Some of them can be unassuming and quite quietly wonderful!
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