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Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by Duckxon@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Justifier@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Shiiit,

Don't threaten me with a good time

Leave my country behind thanks!

I can do without this flavour of development: wealth concentration, surveillance, censorship, and inevitable enshitification

Call me in 20-30 years when its testing grounds have been burned down and its a client side only, fully open sourced consumer favored code

Don't need or want your Ai slop enshitified distopian dream thanks, Mr/Mrs dozen golden parachute packing multi-billionaire wannabe CEO

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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'.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 45 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

lol

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 34 points 19 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.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You lived ignorant/happily under the current Oligarch overlords - at least for a while..

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 points 31 minutes ago

Happily? That's a stretch.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 22 points 19 hours ago

heroin entrepreneur says all the cool kids are doing heroin

[–] db2@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago

Eat shit Georgie.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 18 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 17 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 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

The very same

[–] Khari@feddit.org 16 points 20 hours ago

He seems to have a financial incentive to say this.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

"My farts smell nummy" - George Osborne

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can I get left behind?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] omarthemediocre@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 9 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

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