The original paper that launched all of this was called Attention is all you need

I am not sure that is correct. AI didn't come out suddenly out of nowhere. It is just good old exponential growth. Text generation models have become more powerful year after ever since RNNs started to do something like 10 years ago. GPT-1 was 6 years ago and attracted attention (no pun intended) all over. Only with ChatGPT did the wider world take notice.

You can get a better 4G signal in most African cities than you get in corners of San Francisco or New York. Much cheaper too: https://prepaid-data-sim-card.... - the idea that Africa is completely backwards when it comes to Internet is rather outdated.

This https://tradingeconomics.com/s... says unemployment in South Korea is 3.6%

Look at this graph: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/content/Goog-Growth-Q1-2012.png CPC go up and go down. But not like Wolff says, always going down. They went sharply down around 2008, then went up for a bit, now go down. I blame economic contraction in Europe which account for half of Google's traffic.