How AI Ate the World: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence - and Its Long Future
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Chris Stokel-Walker (Author)
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Artificial intelligence will shake up our lives as thoroughly as the arrival of the internet. This popular, up-to-date book charts AI's rise from its Cold War origins to its explosive growth in the 2020s.
Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker (TikTok Boom and YouTubers) goes into the laboratories of the Silicon Valley innovators making rapid advances in 'large language models' of machine learning. He meets the insiders at Google and OpenAI who built Gemini and ChatGPT and reveals the extraordinary plans they have for them.
Along the way, he explores AI's dark side by talking to workers who have lost their jobs to bots and engages with futurologists worried that a man-made super-intelligence could threaten humankind.
He answers critical questions about the AI revolution, such as what humanity might be jeopardising; the professions that will win and lose; and whether the existential threat technologists Elon Musk and Sam Altman are warning about is realistic - or a smokescreen to divert attention away from their growing power. How AI Ate the World is a 'start here' guide for anyone who wants to know more about the world we have just entered.
About the Author
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) - the first popular book on TikTok.His latest book is The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O'Mara Books).
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- Contributor: Chris Stokel-Walker
- Imprint: Canbury
- ISBN13: 9781914487323
- Number of Pages: 320
- Packaged Dimensions: 153x234x25mm
- Packaged Weight: 380
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Canbury Press
- Release Date: 2024-05-09
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) - the first popular book on TikTok.His latest book is The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O'Mara Books).
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