Bulls’ AI: funding artificial intelligence
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Artificial Intelligence has gained ground so fast that OpenAI, the firm powering ChatGPT, is changing Silicon Valley’s investment model and how it innovates. Why the global nuclear order may be in peril (10:24). And an alternative type of electoral forecasting is gaining ground: political astrology (19:02).
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the truth about AI. |
| 0:02.0 | AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. |
| 0:05.0 | Service now puts AI to work for people across your business, |
| 0:09.0 | removing friction and frustration for your employees, |
| 0:12.0 | supercharging productivity for your developers, |
| 0:15.6 | providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier. |
| 0:19.6 | All built into a single platform you can use right now. That's why the world works with |
| 0:25.1 | Service Now. Visit Service Now.com slash UK slash AI for people. |
| 0:30.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:38.0 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:42.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion of |
| 0:46.1 | our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:50.8 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:56.0 | BP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm your host Rosie Blore. |
| 1:18.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:36.2 | Remember those nuclear arms agreements that limited the number of warheads to keep us safe safe, well they're actually about to expire. If you think things are grim now, they could get even grimmer. |
| 1:39.6 | And are you tired of all the data and polls and objective measures of political fortunes? |
| 1:47.0 | Good news, our correspondent looks at an alternative type of forecasting that's proving surprisingly popular. |
| 1:54.6 | We meet the political astrologers. But first. |
| 2:07.0 | These days we hear about AI all the time. |
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