Kevin Roose's new book, The AGI Chronicles, tells the story of the AI revolution. He joins the show to explain its earliest beginnings: the researchers who discovered what language models could do, the people who debated whether humans or computers should are more special, and the executives who started the companies that currently rule our economy. What do they want, and what are they building?
Further reading:
Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
Machine Gods
The AGI Chronicles
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Further reading:
Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
Machine Gods
The AGI Chronicles
Apple refreshes the iMac with M6 chips
Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M6 chips
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril is getting into laptops — and claims they’ll be American-made
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Data center backlash is uniting America
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