**Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardUpdated edition with a new preface from the author.The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative artificial intelligence – and, therefore, the future of humanity. From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson.**Two titans of Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google, rushed to embrace artificial intelligence. Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI, creato...

«Stimolante, chiaro e ben documentato.»The Wall Street Journal«Sconvolgente. Olson ha accesso a fonti assolutamente esclusive.»Financial Times«Un resoconto indispensabile delle promesse e delle minacce dell'intelligenza artificiale.»Bloomberg«Un libro brillante e accessibile sulla storia e sull'impatto dell'intelligenza artificiale.»Kirkus Revie...

WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDIn November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI eff...

In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy. In 2011, LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal. The groups have infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia. They have attacked the CIA and NATO. But instead of being sanctimonious and secretive, these cyber activists are flippant and taunting, never hesitati...

★英國《金融時報》與施羅德投資2024年商業書籍獎★★美國亞馬遜書店編輯選書★矽谷金童山姆．奧特曼領軍的OpenAI與開發AlphaGo擊敗世界棋王的DeepMind競相打造超越人類智慧的AI產品微軟、Google、特斯拉等科技巨頭也看準商機想用AI謀利AI能否超越人類智慧？人類的未來又會往哪個方向走？2022年11月，名為ChatGPT的AI聊天機器人悄然上線。它比語音客服更具人性，比Google搜尋更便捷，徹底顛覆人們對科技應用的想像。ChatGPT的誕生也為AI大戰正式點燃烽火。》》》一場AI霸主之爭，勢不可當開發ChatGPT的OpenAI執行長山姆‧奧特曼矢志打造超越人類智慧的機器，讓他不但成為矽谷新一代的精神領袖，也成功吸引金主們的注意，包括相信AI末日論又亟欲控...

Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024'A clear and compelling read about one of the most consequential races in the world' - Madhumita Murgia, bestselling author of Code Dependent and AI Editor for The Financial TimesDiscover the never-before-told story of the ruthless shadow race between Microsoft and Google, as both compete to develop a mass-market AI while juggling existential...

A thrilling, exclusive exposè of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.We Are Anonymous is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds -- and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented access, drawing upon hundr...

In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishi...