I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.
The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.
Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.
Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.
Daniel Wayne Armstrong
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •