The AGI Chronicles

This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial general intelligence. For the last decade, a handful of AI companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence, or AGI―a computer system capable of outdoing humans at almost anything. Some of them hoped AGI would cure diseases and heal the planet. Others feared it could kill everyone on Earth. They decided to build it anyway. Kevin Roose’s The ...