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The optimist : Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the race to invent the future

Hagey, Keach. Auteur

W.W. Norton & Company - 2025 - 1 volume (x, 367 pages)

A detailed biography of Sam Altman, tracing his rise from a precocious youth to a central figure in the race to build artificial general intelligence as CEO of OpenAI. Through over 250 interviews, Hagey paints a nuanced portrait of Altman as a visionary risk-taker with near-religious faith in technological progress, whose dramatic 2023 firing and swift reinstatement underscored his influence and the volatile pace of the AI industry

Prologue. Part I : 1985-2005. Chapter 1 : Chicago.
... Chapter 2 : St. Louis. Chapter 3 : "Where are you?". Chapter 4 : Among the "nerd's nerds". Part II : 2005-2012. Chapter 5 : "Stopping out". Chapter 6 : "Where you at?". Chapter 7 : From "weak" to "cool". Chapter 8 : The douchebag badge. Part III : 2012-2019. Chapter 9 : "A ride on a rocket". Chapter 10 : "Sam Altman for president". Chapter 11 : "A Manhattan project for AI". Chapter 12 : Altruists. Chapter 13 : Pivoting to profit. Part IV : 2019-2024. Chapter 14 : Products. Chapter 15 : ChatGPT. Chapter 16 : The blip. Chapter 17 : Prometheus unbound. Epilogue. Lire la suite