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By: Clare Barclay

Clare Barclay is chief operating officer at Microsoft UK.

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  • Artificial intelligence could solve Britain’s productivity puzzle

    Artificial intelligence could solve Britain's productivity puzzle

    At a time of technological innovation and low unemployment, why is UK productivity close to 16 per cent behind other advanced economies in the world?  Experts disagree on the causes of the UK’s “productivity puzzle” but they, the government, and technology companies like ours agree that artificial intelligence (AI) will form a crucial part of [...]

    Last week Open AI introduced Sora - their text-to-video model - that creates realistic videos from a simple prompt. Open AI CEO, Sam Altman, also expressed his desire to raise an eye-watering $7 trillion, or 3.5x the current total crypto market cap, to fuel chip design and manufacturing to cater for increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).

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