Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for the New York Times, unravels the story of Artificial Intelligence over the past 20 years and explains why we’re in the mess we’re in with AI.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeadMind, and other AI firms are all racing to develop Artificial Intelligence that is…Superintelligent. By “Superintelligent” Roose explains that the AI will be able to able to reason and code at superhuman speed. It will, in fact, be smarter than us.
But, the danger is, the superintelligent Artificial Intelligence could become a threat to humans if it escapes our control. Roose documents several occasions when AI has gone rogue.
The AGI Chronicles is a chilling history of AI…and a warning about what is to come. GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Author’s Note on Sources and AI — ix
Prologue — 3
Part I :
- Transformed — 11
- Tabula rasa — 23
- Attention — 31
- Big blob of compute — 37
- Guys, I’ve had enough — 51
- The bitter lesson — 58
- Infohazard — 67
- Reward is enough — 76
- Few-shot — 85
- Meena eats Google — 95
- BATNA — 102
Part II:
12. Fell the AGI — 113
13. Helpful, honest, harmless — 125
14. Say AGI — 133
15. Low-key research preview — 141
16. Code red — 148
17. War is coming — 160
18. I want to be alive — 169
19. The shoggoth — 178
20. Commitments — 184
21. Titan — 192
22. Accelerate of die — 199
23. Q* — 206
24. Not consistently candid — 213
25. Without its people — 224
Part III :
26. YOLO — 233
27. Glue pizza — 243
28. GPU poor — 253
29. Machines of loving grace — 262
30, Strawberry jam — 270
31. PNG — 279
32. High-flyer — 289
33. Everyone dies — 300
34. Gentle singularity — 311
35 . Relentless — 319
36. Hello from the weights — 329
37. Success disasters — 335
38. Takeoff — 346
Epilogue — 359
Notes — 363
Acknowledgements — 403
Index — 405
I can’t understand why people would want to create and artificial superintelligence. They already have me, and I’m not even artificial.
Jerry, the culprit for this AI madness according to Kevin Roose is…Elon Musk. Musk funded OpenAI in the early days before he realized the dangers of AI.
One of many things I hope Elon will have to answer for some day.
Jeff, Elon was all in on AI…until he found out AI could kill us all!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, AI will destroy civilization as we know it! I guess some people will think that’s a good thing, but it isn’t!
Bob, the risk is there for complete destruction!
Everyone say it with me now, “I’m glad I’m old.”
Deb, you may be right …
Even without considering AI, just the recent developments in world politics make me happy that I had the first 15 years of this century (and the last 20 years of the 20th) to travel round the world.
Now I’m happy to be still alive, not too many illnesses and problems, get up every day and take my 10 tablets/medications every day …
And of course I’m happy that as an old bloke I found a wonderful woman partner.
AI is scary. With trump in the white house, who knows what’s going on with it, especially with musk around. I’m not confident it can be controlled and fear for the human race
(Which doesn’t include musk or Trump ,in my opinion)
Maggie, AI CEOs show up at the White House on a regular basis. Trump is all in on Data Centers and his billionaire AI pals!