標題:OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Are AI’s New Power

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正文：In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Group had missed out on it. “I haven’t been able to do anything,” he thought, according to a speech he gave to SoftBank investors last year. “Can I just get old like this and die?”

知識點：statue n.

A statue is a large sculpture of a person or an animal, made of stone or metal. (石或金屬做的動物或人的) 雕像

...a bronze statue of an Arabian horse. …一座阿拉伯馬青銅雕像。

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