Fiction might work as well here. As an uneducated observer,I feel like there is a Tiger-by-the-Tail aspect to the business of AI, and as with social media, any kind of meaningful regulation of it is always multiple steps behind. Or maybe I’m wrong. I want to know… just what is the endgame here?
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Empire of AI by Karen Hao. It’s a journalistic take on the founding and growth of OpenAI.
It focuses specifically on the LLM aspect of AI, but Denis Yi Tenen’s *Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write* is a good read.
Max Tegmark’s speculative **Life 3.0** presents the spectrum of futures mankind faces due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. He’s a physics professor and leans heavily into how it could occur. And he’s also wordy.
Written in 2017, today many of the things he posits are rapidly becoming reality.
One of my favorites on this topic is The Coming Wave, written by the cofounder of Deep Mind, which became the foundation for Google’s AI function.
It walks through Deep Mind’s work and milestones over the last 15 years and explores different scenarios that we might see unfold in the future. Interestingly, he makes the argument that regulations in the way we currently understand them are not likely going to be sufficient in achieving safety.
Fast, engaging, introductory level read. Highly recommend.