UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King’s ransom
Political leaders are given to the odd flight of fancy, but yesterday UK prime minister Rishi Sunak created a whole new fantasy realm in which his dreams for the nation's future could flourish unhindered by encounters with reality.
It would all be so funny if it were not real. But it is, at least in the fact that he really did say it., in a desperate effort to seem on trend with the large language models of the OpenAI ilk which promise to transform business, medicine, and government beyond our imaginations, or press the red button triggering a doom cycle in the fall of civilization, depending on your perspective.
“We just launched a campaign in… Silicon Valley. Just talking about, you know, our companies what they were doing. A lot of ministers were out there the other week, and it was a huge success, right. And it was called, what was it called?” he said, turning to an aide whom we can only assume would rather have been in Sudan than owning up to a moniker which seemed such a good idea after three glasses of Champagne and a trans-Atlantic flight.
To be fair, the British prime minister probably meant unicorns as in startups achieving a billion-dollar valuation —
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