AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race
Kevin Roose, formerly of the New York Times and Hard Fork, joins ChinaTalk to discuss AGI Chronicles, his new history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the people who believed in AGI long before it was cool and could make you trillions. Kevin is launching his own show, Machine Gods, later this October.
We discuss…
Why AGI was built on belief, not just money, GPUs, or talent, and how Google had every piece of the puzzle except the conviction.
What drives Sam, Dario, and Demis, some of the most competitive people alive.
Whether the Manhattan Project analogy holds, and why the government can’t…
The skinny
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