{"title":"Technology \u0026 Engineering - Social aspects","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"empire-of-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-in-sam-altmans-openai-9780593657508","title":"Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . 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At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpoiler alert: it didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history--toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry--Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too--as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. 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