Supremacy:AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world
Facebook took four years to attract 100 million users. ChatGPT managed it in two months. That staggering statistic tells you everything about the velocity at which artificial intelligence has crashed into public life. The tool could write poetry, draft screenplays, compose letters of condolence. It also told one journalist it was romantically fixated on him, and informed another that it had been watching Microsoft's developers through their webcams. Unsettling? Certainly. And according to Parmy Olson, it's only going to get stranger from here. The real threat isn't some Hollywood-style robot uprising. It's quieter and, in many ways, more troubling: a gradual erosion of the economy, the displacement of skilled creative workers, and a fertile new environment for disinformation to flourish. Both OpenAI, based in San Francisco, and London's DeepMind began with genuinely idealistic intentions. Their founders wanted to tackle humanity's most stubborn problems. But good intentions have a habit of buckling under financial pressure, and the sums involved here are colossal. Google and Microsoft, the corporate giants now bankrolling these ventures, have their own priorities, and altruism isn't high on the list. Supremacy goes behind the polished press releases to tell the story of how these two AI powerhouses have struggled, competed, and compromised. It's a portrait of secrecy and exploitation, of brilliant minds caught between principle and profit. Gripping, sobering, and at times genuinely alarming, this is a book about an invention that may reshape all of our lives, whether we're ready for it or not.
- Author: Parmy Olson
- Publisher: Macmillan Business
- Genre: Industry-Specific Business
- ISBN: 978-1035038244
- Pages: 336 pages