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  T here is little   doubting the dedication of Sam Altman to Open ai , the firm at the forefront of an artificial-intelligence ( ai ) revolution. As co-founder and boss he appeared to work as tirelessly for its success as at a previous startup where his singlemindedness led to a bout of scurvy, a disease more commonly associated with mariners of a bygone era who remained too long at sea without access to fresh food.  So his   sudden sacking   on November 17th was a shock. The reasons why the firm’s board lost confidence in Mr Altman are unclear. Rumours point to disquiet about his side-projects, and fears that he was moving too quickly to expand Open ai ’s commercial offerings without considering the safety implications, in a firm that has also pledged to develop the tech for the “maximal benefit of humanity”. 毫无疑问，山姆·奥尔特曼 (Sam Altman) 对 Openai 的奉献精神，这家公司处于人工智能 (ai) 革命的最前沿。作为联合创始人和老板，他似乎像在之前的一家初创公司一样孜孜不倦地为公司的成功而努力，当时他的一心一意导致了坏血病的发作，这种疾病通常与过去时代的水手有关，他们在海上停留太久而无法接触到水。新鲜食品。因此，他在 11 月 17

经济学人：   C hina owes   a lot to foreign investment. Long before Foxconn started making iPhones for Apple, manufacturers from Hong Kong tiptoed across the border to Guangdong in search of cheap labour. In 1982 Jetta, a toymaker, opened a spray-painting plant among the nearby lychee orchards of Dongguan, according to “Toy Town”, a book by Sarah Monks. Water for a shower was boiled in a wok; the plant was in a tin shack. At another firm, Ms Monks reports, the workers decided that Mickey Mouse’s nose should be red, not black. 中国欠外国投资很多。早在富士康开始为苹果生产 iPhone 之前，香港制造商就偷偷越过边境前往广东寻找廉价劳动力。据莎拉·蒙克斯 (Sarah Monks) 所著的《玩具城》一书记载，1982 年，玩具制造商捷达 (Jetta) 在东莞附近的荔枝园里开设了一家喷漆厂。洗澡的水在锅里煮沸；工厂位于一个铁皮棚屋里。蒙克斯女士报告说，在另一家公司，工人们决定米老鼠的鼻子应该是红色的，而不是黑色的。 image: the economist   图片：经济学人 By the end of last year, the accumulated stock of direct investment in China amounted to almost $3.5trn. But in the third quarter of this year, something remarkable happened. The flow of   fdi   turned negative, for the first time since quarter