The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned.
Sam Altman, a co-founder of OpenAI, talked to Peter Kyle about a potential agreement to give UK residents access to its advanced product.
According to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, the idea was floated as part of a broader discussion in San Francisco about opportunities for collaboration between OpenAI and the UK.
Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn. But the talks show the enthusiasm with which the technology secretary has embraced the artificial intelligence sector, despite concerns over the accuracy of some chatbot responses and implications for privacy and copyright.
£2bn for food and housing would be nice.
I’d rather have an angry wasp enema, ta!
please don’t use people’s tax money for this
for two billion fucking quid, they should own the entirety of open ai, and have sam altman become the british public’s official jester for 5 years.
Can we stop depending on American scraps and make our own AI monoliths.
Based on everything I’ve heard I think your power is genuinely too expensive for it to be worth while. In the US and china power is much cheaper.
A lot of the problem is the way electricity is priced, based on the most expensive unit, gas.
I would think that can use data centers abroad or look at more power effecent models. But that’s the aim that all the ai companies have.
When I see a screenshot of Google Gemini saying that the word Oreo is a palindrome (it’s spelt the same backwards and forwards), I don’t know why we’re all running towards AI to do everything. Plus there’s the environmental cost as well.
