Britain faces artificial intelligence brain drain | Artificial intelligence

faces an artificial intelligence “brain drain” as Silicon Valley raids its top universities for talent, data compiled by The Daily Telegraph shows.

Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.

More than a tenth have moved to North American universities and nearly a tenth are currently working for other smaller US companies. Meanwhile just one in seven have joined British start-ups.

The Daily Telegraph surveyed 150 people who had gained either a postgraduate-level degree or had held research positions at Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, UCL and Oxford Brookes universities.

It comes amid growing…