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.@kevinroose reveals 3 pivotal moments that changed the course of AI: Ilya's transformer eureka, Q*, and Sam Altman’s firing: "One of them has to be the moment where Ilya Sutskever shows up at the desk of this junior OpenAI researcher, Alec Radford, clutching a copy of Attention Is All You Need, and says, 'We have to experiment with this.'" "Another moment is the evening in 2023 when a couple of researchers at OpenAI are sitting in a conference room looking at the reasoning traces from the…
Kevin Roose@kevinroose8h ago
It's pub day for The AGI Chronicles! Impossible to convey how hard this thing was to write. I locked myself away for a year, and interviewed more than 150 AI insiders to try to get the full story of the race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, because it felt so important to have an accurate record of how we got here. But it's done, and it's out, and you can start reading it today! (Or listening -- I recorded the audiobook myself.) I'm very happy with the finished product, and I hope it will serve as both a durable artifact of this era and a sense-making instrument for people who are getting up to speed on AI. I'm not very good at street-team promo, but if you buy a copy and reply with your receipt, I will generate a beautiful personalized thank-you poem as a token of my gratitude.
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