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Kevin Roose's new book, The AGI Chronicles, tells the story of the AI revolution. He joins the show to explain its earliest beginnings: the researchers who discovered what language models could do, the people who debated whether humans or computers should are more special, and the executives who started the companies that currently rule our economy. What do they want, and what are they building?
0:00 Intro
00:18 90 Seconds on The Verge
01:53 Introducing AGI Chronicles
03:41 Google and DeepMind fears
09:26 The Race to a Successor Species
16:31 The T in ChatGPT
20:12 Google Misses the Moment
24:05 ChatGPT launch shockwave
26:50 Chatting Beats Perfection
29:03 Training Data Ethics
35:45 Reflecting on Sydney
40:38 Have We Reached AGI?
46:16 One More Thing
48:22 Wrap Up
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