Supremacy : AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world / Parmy Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Parmy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Altman, Sam, 1985-.

Altman, Sam.

Hassabis, Demis, 1976-.

Hassabis, Demis.

OpenAI (Firm).

Google DeepMind (Firm).

ChatGPT.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2024.

Summary:

"In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world's two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive - until now. In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech monopolies whose power is unprecedented in history. The story focuses on the continuing rivalry of two key CEOs at the center of it all, who cultivated a religion around their mission to build god-like super intelligent machines: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind. Supremacy sharply alerts readers to the real threat of artificial intelligence that its top creators are ignoring: the profit-driven spread of flawed and biased technology into industries, education, media and more. With exclusive access to a network of high-ranking sources, Parmy Olson uses her 13 years of experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Act 1: The dream. High school hero

Winning, winning, winning

Save the humans

A better brain

For utopia, for money

The mission

Act 2: The leviathans. Playing games

Everything is awesome

The Goliath paradox

Act 3: The bills. Size matters

Bound to big tech

Myth busters

Act 4: The race. Hello, ChatGPT

A vague sense of doom

Checkmate

In the shadow of monopolies

Acknowledgments

Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250337740

1250337747

OCLC:

1404446039

Publisher Number:

90101381001

40032479489