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Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by Duckxon@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] fulgidus@feddit.it 1 points 3 minutes ago

Suck my LLM (Long Lingual Mallet)

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Holding on to one's preferred human culture and values is not being 'left behind' in any sense ... they may in fact be 'left ahead'.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

lol

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 51 points 17 hours ago

Capitalist pig says buy our product or else. Story at 11.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 35 points 17 hours ago

"You know who doesn't buy my drugs? Maidenless losers." Said every drug dealer in history. It's not even good marketing hype, it's just sad at this point.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 17 hours ago

heroin entrepreneur says all the cool kids are doing heroin

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 26 points 17 hours ago

I for one do not welcome these AI overlords. Get fucked.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago

Eat shit Georgie.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh boy, it's time to show this gif of George Osbourne off his tits in Parliament again!

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't he the chancellor who introduced the tax on take out food.

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

The very same

[–] Khari@feddit.org 17 points 17 hours ago

He seems to have a financial incentive to say this.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can I get left behind?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 16 hours ago

Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

"My farts smell nummy" - George Osborne

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

FOMO, fear of missing out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomo

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 9 points 15 hours ago

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

"Please be an early adopter, otherwise we might run out of money if you wait for the technology to mature and sufficient use cases to emerge"

[–] omarthemediocre@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

That OpenAI that is strugglin to make any money out of their tech and will probably go bankrupt in a year? Ok