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Supremacy : AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World

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<p><b>From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson, <i>Supremacy </i>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&rsquo;re now going in.</b><br><br><i><b>&quot;They declined his offer too, not realizing how much the thin-skinned Musk didn&rsquo;t like it when people said no.

Soon enough though, Hassabis got another email. This time, it was from Google.&quot;</b></i><br><br>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.<br><br>It was never meant to be this way.

The founders of the two companies behind the most advanced AIs in existence &ndash; Open AI (ChatGPT) and DeepMind (Bard) &ndash; started their journeys determined to solve humanity&rsquo;s greatest problems.

But they couldn&rsquo;t develop their technologies without huge amounts of money &ndash; money that Microsoft and Google were more than happy to give them, in exchange for the most powerful seats at the table.<br><br>From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson, <i>Supremacy </i>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&rsquo;re now going in.

Featuring a cast of larger-than-life characters, including Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel, <i>Supremacy</i> is a story of manipulation, exploitation, secrecy and of ruthless, relentless human progress &ndash; progress that will impact all of us for years to come.</p>

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Product Details
Macmillan Business
1035038234 / 9781035038237
Paperback
12/09/2024
United Kingdom
English
304 pages
24 cm