If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them | John Naughton

If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them | John Naughton

There’s a moment in the 1967 film The Graduate that has become renowned. At a party thrown by his parents to celebrate his graduation, Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) is approached by Mr McGuire, an elderly bore who wants to say “just one word” to him: “plastics”. “Exactly how do you mean?”, asks the hapless Ben. “There’s a great future in plastics,” says McGuire. “Think about it.”

Listening last week to the spending plans of the techlords who run Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon…

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