Sir Tim Berners-Lee writes about Ditchley in his new memoir

Sir Tim, the inventor of the worldwide web, writes that some of the UK’s leading technologists, strategists and politicians gathered at “influential think tank” Ditchley to hash out the implications of the public debut of ChatGPT.

He describes Ditchley Park as “a grand old English country house near Oxford that was used as a refuge by Winston Churchill during the Second World War…”, adding however that “Ditchley is not as old-fashioned as it appears.”

“In the large library where we met, many of the bookshelves concealed cameras, and the table contained a host of modern teleconferencing equipment, as well as a huge screen that played a video digest of our discussion in real time. The room felt almost like something a Bond villain would create,” he writes.

You can read the full interview and excerpt here [PAYWALLED].