Inside zealous pursuit of Openai of the domination of AI

Later this month, Openai should publish the latest version of Chatgpt – the AI inauguration chatbot which became the fastest application in history when it was launched in 2022.

When Sam Altman presented an ambitious plan for the first time to develop artificial intelligence, he compared it to another changing world, potentially in the world destroying the effort: the Manhattan project, in which the United States ran to build an atomic bomb.

The sale argument he made at Elon Musk worked. Altman was promised a billion dollars for the project and even received a name: Openai.

In a new book, “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman’s Openai”, technological journalist Karen Hao recounts the secret and zealous pursuit of general artificial intelligence of society.

Today, Hao joins the show not only to remove the curtain on the interior functioning of the company through its astronomical rise and its very public controversies, but also on the very real human and environmental impacts it has had, all in the name of the progression of its technology.

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