Inside the early days of the AI revolution | The Vergecast

Kevin Roose's new book, The AGI Chronicles, tells the story of the AI revolution. He joins the show to explain its earliest beginnings: the researchers who discovered what language models could do, the people who debated whether humans or computers should are more special, and the executives who started the companies that currently rule our economy. What do they want, and what are they building? 0:00 Intro 00:18 90 Seconds on The Verge 01:53 Introducing AGI Chronicles 03:41 Google and DeepMind fears 09:26 The Race to a Successor Species 16:31 The T in ChatGPT 20:12 Google Misses the Moment 24: