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Supremacy

AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World

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From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson, Supremacy is the astonishing, untold, behind-the-scenes story of the battle between two AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the dangerous direction that they're now going in.
"They declined his offer too, not realizing how much the thin-skinned Musk didn't like it when people said no. Soon enough though, Hassabis got another email. This time, it was from Google."
When ChatGPT was released, the world changed overnight. Even as we all played with the new toy, a very real danger was quickly coming to light: that untested automations would undermine our way of life insidiously, sucking value out of our economy, replacing high-level creative jobs and enabling a new, terrifying era of disinformation.
It was never meant to be this way. The founders of the two companies behind the most advanced AIs in existence – Open AI (ChatGPT) and DeepMind (Bard) – started their journeys determined to solve humanity's greatest problems. But they couldn't develop their technologies without huge amounts of money – money that Microsoft and Google were more than happy to give them, in exchange for the most powerful seats at the table.
From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson, Supremacy is the astonishing, untold, behind-the-scenes story of the battle between two AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the dangerous direction that they're now going in. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life characters, including Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel, Supremacy is a story of manipulation, exploitation, secrecy and of ruthless, relentless human progress – progress that will impact all of us for years to come.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 8, 2024
      This animated report from Olson (We Are Anonymous), a technology columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, recounts the competition between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis to bring artificial intelligence software to market. She explains how Altman’s belief that it was in humanity’s best interest for OpenAI to create the technology as soon as possible led him to abandon the organization’s nonprofit status so it could partner with and receive funding from Microsoft. Hassabis followed a similar trajectory, establishing DeepMind in 2010 out of a desire to develop AI capable of answering “where humans had come from and what their purpose was” before he sold the company to Google to secure long-term funding. Though Olson frames the narrative as a clash of titans, there’s surprisingly little direct conflict between Altman and Hassabis, aside from a tense 2020 dinner during which Hassabis accused Altman of enabling bad actors by releasing GPT-3 (the precursor to ChatGPT) to the public. Nonetheless, Olson’s punchy prose and eye for detail brings her subjects to vivid life (she writes that Altman is “bright as any geek, charismatic as any jock”). Though somewhat lacking in drama, this attests to how quickly humanitarian ideals devolve into brazen profit-seeking in Silicon Valley. Agent: David Fugate, Launch Books.

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