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Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] Justifier@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours 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

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

"left behind" sure I think most of the world is fine with that.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

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

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 5 points 22 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'.

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day 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.

[-] fulgidus@feddit.it 1 points 16 hours ago

Suck my LLM (Long Lingual Mallet)

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 33 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago

Happily? That's a stretch.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

heroin entrepreneur says all the cool kids are doing heroin

[-] db2@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Eat shit Georgie.

[-] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

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

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago

The very same

[-] Khari@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago

He seems to have a financial incentive to say this.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Can I get left behind?

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago

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

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

"My farts smell nummy" - George Osborne

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

lol

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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