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🤖🏢👁️ New book ‘Empire of AI’ investigates OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
🤖 AI Summary
- 🧐 Investigative journalist Karen Hao expresses a skeptical view on OpenAI’s direction.
- 💰 OpenAI shifted from its non-profit origins to a for-profit structure, despite claims of building AI for social benefit.
- 🏢 After a $1 billion investment from Microsoft, OpenAI became more competitive and secretive. 🤐
- 👨💼 OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, embodies Silicon Valley’s “growth at all costs” philosophy. 🚀
- ⚡ Training AI models on the entire internet strains global energy resources and 😥 exploits labor.
- ⚠️ The real threat of AI is the consolidation of economic and political power in the hands of AI companies, which are described as “new forms of empire.” 👑
- 🤖 These companies monopolize knowledge production, exploit labor, and control top AI talent, threatening democracy. 🏛️
- ✅ Task-specific AI models, designed for well-scoped challenges, offer broad-based benefits, as opposed to the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). ✨
📚 Book Recommendations
- 👁️🗨️💰⛓️👤 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff: This book provides a comprehensive look at how technology companies collect and use data, and the societal implications of this new form of capitalism.
- “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by Cathy O’Neil: This book explores how algorithms and big data can perpetuate and even worsen existing social inequalities.
- “The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values” by Brian Christian: This book delves into the challenge of building AI systems that are aligned with human values, a central theme in the discussion of AGI.
- 🤖⚠️📈 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom: For a deeper dive into the potential risks and long-term future of artificial intelligence, this book is a foundational text.
- 🧬👥💾 Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark: This book offers a broad overview of the potential futures with AI, from the near term to the very distant future, and discusses how we can steer the development of AI in a beneficial direction.
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🤖🏢👁️ New book ‘Empire of AI’ investigates OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
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🏢 Company Origins | 🚀 Growth Philosophy | 💰 For-Profit Structure | ⚡ Energy Resources | 🏛️ Political Power | 🤖 AGI vs Task Specific AIhttps://t.co/8n3dWDBdqT