New pod: THE BITTER RIVALRY BEHIND THE AI ARMS RACE I talked to @kevinroose about his illuminating and delightfully gossipy new book THE AGI CHRONICLES about the people building AGI and why they're doing what they're doing Incl: - the three-man race to build AGI Sam Altman vs. Dario Amodei vs. Demis Hassabis—why, in many ways, they're so different and how, in some ways, they're the same - the books, stories, frameworks, experiences and philosophies that have motivated them - how two 2017 papers—one very famous (Google's Attention Is All You Need) and the other obscure (Amodei's internal memo Big Blob of Compute)—shaped the AI boom - some salacious gossip about why OpenAI fired Sam, why Dario quit, and why Google fell behind