The funniest, most bizarre, and just plain weird moments from Kevin Roose's new book about OpenAI and Anthropic
Source: Business Insider ·
Tech journalist Kevin Roose documented the history behind major AI advancements and at times crazy moments that led to where we are today.
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A new book recounts how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever led a bizarre ceremony during a 2022 company retreat.Jack Guez/AFP via Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman once helped burn a demonic statue while wearing a bathrobe.The moment occurred during a 2022 OpenAI retreat outside Yosemite.The episode is one of the wild stories tech journalist Kevin Roose recounted in his new book.AI is the inescapable story.In "AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence," tech journalist and podcaster Kevin Roose recounts how the breakthroughs and beefs of a band of researchers, academics, and entrepreneurs have set the stage for the future of … well, everything.The book's title comes from Artificial General Intelligence, the at-times loosely defined theory that AI may one day match or surpass humans across a wide range of capabilities. While Roose ultimately concludes that no technology can equal the human brain, he writes that AI…