Supremacy:AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World - Winner of 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award!
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Discover the never-before-told story of the ruthless shadow race between Microsoft and Google, as both compete to develop a mass-market AI while juggling existential questions of ethics, human progress and the future of the world as we know it. "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. Review: Good read on AI. - This is such a good book. I wanted to finish it on one go. It intelligently intertwines the history, the development, the politics, everything in a very beautiful and engaging story. The writing is very lucid and easy to read by. We are going to learn a lot of things and I especially learnt how these organizations work and how these high-performance people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk think. I got a little peek inside their brain, I can say that . Review: Good
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,779 Reviews |
R**A
Good read on AI.
This is such a good book. I wanted to finish it on one go. It intelligently intertwines the history, the development, the politics, everything in a very beautiful and engaging story. The writing is very lucid and easy to read by. We are going to learn a lot of things and I especially learnt how these organizations work and how these high-performance people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk think. I got a little peek inside their brain, I can say that .
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Good book
P**R
Good read
Found it interesting and informative. AI is going to change the world and it has to be regulated. This book shows why it has been difficult to do so...
K**R
Worth the hype
The book delves into things in yhe AI race which are unknown to common people. The book carefully balances the ai narrative and it's opposing viewpoint
S**I
Excellent read
The race for AI supremacy written as a thriller
S**C
Racy and pacy writing.
Non-Fiction is written in fiction style. Very interesting.
A**R
Great book for Business and new tech overview
Great book for Business and new tech overview
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Interesting
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M**N
great history
As a slow and limited book reader I learnt a lot from this book
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Highly recommended
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Undoubtedly one of the best book I have read
A masterful and deeply engaging exploration of the high-stakes race to dominate the world of AI. Through meticulous research and compelling storytelling, Olson paints a vivid picture of the key players – Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of DeepMind – and the intense rivalry driving the AI revolution. She deftly weaves together the personal narratives of these visionary leaders with the broader implications of their work, exploring the ethical dilemmas, the influence of Big Tech "Leviathans," and the profound potential – and perils – of advanced AI. In doing so, Olson transforms a complex technological narrative into a captivating human drama. What truly sets this book apart is Olson's exceptional writing style. She doesn't just present facts; she crafts a compelling narrative, drawing the reader into the heart of the AI race with the skill of a seasoned storyteller. Her ability to humanize the technology and the individuals behind it makes this book not just informative, but utterly absorbing. This is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the forces shaping our future."
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二人の起業家の物語
ジェフリー・ヒントン氏のチームがGPUにCNNを実装したAlexNetを使って画像認識でブレークスルーを起こしたのが2012年です。 5年後の2017年にGoogleのチームがAttentionモデルを使ったTransformerアーキテクチャを発表し、大規模言語モデルが誕生します。このTransformerの論文”Attention is All you need"の執筆者は、現在のAIを牽引する企業に散らばり、 一人はChatGPT開発の中心人物です。ChatGPTやLlama、Geminiは、Transformerアーキテクチャの系譜を受け継いでいます。 OpenAIは2024年12月にText-to-Videoの製品を発表しました。デモを見ると、ハルシネーションは発生していないようです。 深い層から構成されるニューラルネットに何ができるのか、理論的な限界や境界がはっきりしているわけではなく、誰にもわかりません。5年後シリコンベースのチップアーキテクチャの演算能力が、さらに強力になっていることは明確に断言できます。これは人よりも深く大規模なニューラルネットワークによるリアルタイム処理が普通に利用できることを意味します。 本書は、二人の起業家、サム・アルトマン氏とデミス・ハサビス氏について執筆されています。二人を中心としたAIビジネスに関わる人々の物語です。現代のトーマス・エジソンとジョージ・ウェスティングハウス関係のように、二者を対比させています。 二人がどのようにテクノロジーに関わり始めて、起業してAIを牽引していくか、それを軸に米国と英国における20年ほど前から現在までのこの分野におけるテクノロジー企業の動きがわかります。例えば現在のxAIを起こした起業家のOpenAIに対する反目の理由、2023年11月のOpenAIの一時的なガバナンスの混乱時に何があったのか等がクリアになります。 本書に記された物語の後、ハサビス氏は望みが叶いノーベル化学賞を授かっています。 また、著者は新しい技術の負の側面についてもバランスよく記しています。 タイトルの...,and the raceには、本書に登場する企業のrace to build AGI(Artificial General Intelligence)だけでなく、human raceに対するAIのサイバネティックス的な意味も暗示しているのでしょうか。おそらく近いうちに邦訳が出版されるでしょうが、そのときこの微妙なニュアンスは消えるのでしょう。 Transformerアーキテクチャは、コンテキストの中の位置関係で頻度の高いワードを予測して、ワード間の結びつきの強さから意味を特定します。それでもワードの持つ意味はその言語体系特有のもので、歴史や文化と結びついているので、韻を含んだ表現などは異なる言語に変換するときに伝達されません。最もこれは、言語の構造に依存しているため、人でもAIによる処理でも同じことです。少なくともChatGPTのような現在のアーキテクチャによるAIは、歴史や文化の異なるあらゆる言語の構造を学習します。 本書の主役である二人が起業した二社を含むテクノロジー企業は、今後もタレント、資金、計算リソースを投入し、現在のアーキテクチャよりさらに洗練されたアーキテクチャをリリースしていくのでしょう。それは社会システムや人の生活様式を変えていくことになるでしょう。
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