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Kevin Roose’s new book, The AGI Chronicles, traces the past decade of AI, from OpenAI’s founding to the agent boom. A New Scientist review says it pairs the history with accessible explanations of how large language models work.
Why it mattersRoose interviewed more than 150 people at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, the review says. Its reservation: his belief that human-level AI is near may tilt the story towards the industry’s own view of events. That makes this more than a reading recommendation: it is a primer with a point of view worth keeping in mind.
Discuss: Should AI histories lean on insider access, or does it risk letting the industry write its own origin story?
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