Tel Aviv University before a talk from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in June 2023
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Supremacy
Parmy Olson (Macmillan Business (UK); St Martin’s Press (US))
For most people, ChatGPT appeared to materalise out of thin air. Within weeks of OpenAI’s quiet launch of the AI chatbot, it had become the fastest-growing app of all time and, almost two years later, it is nearly as well known as Google or Facebook. In the meantime, companies worldwide have gone gaga for the technology, with little time to pause to consider the wider societal consequences. So how did we get here and who was responsible?…
