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Review of Supremacy Supremacy is about how 2 men – Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) – shape the future of AI. AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term coined in 1956 at a workshop at Dartmouth College. Language and terminology plays an enormous role in the development of AI, driving interest to sometimes maddening effect. In the beginning, AI focuses on specific tasks and can only be good at one task that it is trained in. AGI Hassabis and Altman both aim to develop AGI (artificial general intelligence). AGI aims to replicate human-level intelligence in a machine, allowing it to think, learn, and understand like a human. Hassabis believed that AGI would unlock the mysteries of science and the divine while Altman saw it as the route to financial abundance for the world. Unintended consequences Each time AI’s capabilities grew, it unleashed an unintended consequence that often caused harm to a minority group. As the data that the researchers feed into the system contain bias, the outcome is also biased. Mission drift As both OpenAI and DeepMind needed money to expand their capacity to create AGI, they accepted the offer from Microsoft and Google respectively. Nonetheless, as both…

Introduction Power and Progress is about the direction of technology development. This book explores the nature of the economic, social, and political choice, the historical and contemporary evidence on the relationship among technology, wages, and inequality, and the ways to direct innovations to work in service of shared prosperity. After reading Poverty, by America, I stumbled upon this book and decided to read it. Author Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received several awards and honours, including the John Bates Clark Medal, the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in economics, finance and management, and the Kiel’s Institute’s Global Economy Price in economics. Simon Johnson is the Roland A. Kutz Professor of Entrepreneurship in Sloan School at MIT. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund in 2007-2008. He has been a Fannie Mae director since February 2021. Contents Power and Progress has a prologue and 11 chapters. The chapters are 1) Control over Technology 2) Canal Vision 3) Power to Persuade 4) Cultivating Misery 5) A Middling Sort of Revolution 6) Casualties of Progress 7) The Contested Path 8) Digital Damage 9) Artificial Struggle 10) Democracy Breaks 11) Redirecting Technology…

Introduction Poverty, by America is the author’s attempt to answer this question: Why is there so much poverty in America? It is a book about poverty that is not just about the poor but also how the other half lives, about how some lives are made small so that others may grow. I would like to know the answer to the author’s question. Author Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. Contents Poverty, by America has a prologue, 9 chapter and an epilogue. The chapters are 1) The Kind of Problem Poverty Is 2) Why Haven’t We Made More Progress 3) How We Undercut Workers 4) How We Force the Poor to Pay More 5) How We Rely on Welfare 6) How We Buy Opportunity 7) Invest in Ending Poverty 8) Empower the Poor 9) Tear Down the Walls Review In Poverty, by America, the author discusses the persistent poverty in the United States, despite its abundance. Definitions The technical definition of poverty is that a person is considered “poor” when they cannot afford life’s necessities. However, poverty is more than that. Poverty is…