[the notes from the book were retrieved with kobogarden, with the purpose of aiding to create a map of the ideas the book left me. The full list of book highlights can be found here.]

It felt necessary to have a catching up with some of this culture. AI (or, rather more precisely, what goes under llm and adjacent spectra) is moving very quickly. That is at least the general impression one has: since ChatGPT was made available to the public in 2021, it has since become much more reliable - for certain tasks -, the tech-savvy public have found their niche tools, and the public at large is already aware - and are users - of this new technology. Strong competition is sprouting, and the technology is evolving in many areas of research.

This book tells the story of Sam Altman and Denis Hassabis – openAI and DeepMind – and all the adjacent entities (Microsoft is now involved with the first, while Google adbsorbed the latter). It is not a technical book; more a recounting of the last decade in the space. It helps make sense of how things fell into place, understanding its driving motivations, and put faces and some background into who have now become big agents of change in the current technological landscape.

[more highlights and excerpts to come; but, alas, I broke the kobogarden script]]