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“The wine was great,” I say, collecting myself. “But there was a fly in it.” “Was there?” He doesn’t believe me. I don’t know how I know, but I know. And he knows that I know. I can see it, no—I can feel it. There’s a tingle at the base of
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“He’d always stubbornly insisted he was right. Momentum. His life had been about momentum. Problem was, it was all too easy to gather momentum in the wrong direction, and it became harder and harder to change course.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“The thing is, the deepest truths always sound a little trite. Because we all know them, and feel foolish being reminded.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“There is a different way forward. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be what it is today. We don’t need to accept the logic of unprecedented scale and consumption to achieve advancement and progress. So much of what our society actually needs—better health care and education, clean air and clean water, a faster transition away from fossil fuels—can be assisted and advanced with, and sometimes even necessitates, significantly smaller AI models and a diversity of other approaches. AI alone won’t be enough, either: We’ll also need more social cohesion and global cooperation, some of the very things being challenged by the existing vision of AI development.”
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
“It was all too easy for the privileged to grow accustomed to moving through the city in ways that shielded them from seeing the realities of how the other half lived. The dichotomy encapsulated how the tech industry could profess big, bold visions about changing the world and building a better future while ignoring the very problems at its door.”
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
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