Free speech is meant to enable a fair battle of ideas, so the good ideas outweigh the bad. That's what classical thinkers like John Stuart Mill proposed. But when social media platforms optimize for engagement, the crazy stuff often outweighs nuance and truth. That's not a

'Supremacy' just got named one of Amazon's "Best Nonfiction Books of September!" And it's longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024. Pre-order here if you want the story behind the AI boom: amazon.com/Supremacy-Chat…? It's out Tues Sept 10.

🚀📚 Having covered the tech industry for the last 14 years and the field of AI for the last 7 years as a journalist, I'm so pleased that one of my most enthralling and fascinating projects, a book on story behind the AI boom, is now available in the US. "Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT

A salient takeaway from the book - thank you Steve Brock

A thousand congrats to Parmy for the 🇬🇧 pub day! I was honored to read an early copy. It's a fantastic, accessible read that anyone interested in the topic (and its big egos) will enjoy tremendously.

Fascinating to see the mass scraping of European user activity described as an attempt to "understand the EU’s rich cultural, social and historical contributions"

Also reading: Parmy Olson’s definitive account of the nascent AI boom and what it means for tech, society and the future. “Supremacy.”

This was such a fun chat to have with Will and Richard Kramer on their podcast 'Bubble Trouble.' We talked about key points from my book 'Supremacy' read.macmillan.com/lp/supremacy-9…, the AI boom and why Big Tech is like a giant squid sucking all the air out of the room.

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build data centers to power AI. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than they’re reporting. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Had a great time chatting with Alex Kantrowitz on one of my fav podcasts - Big Technology - about OpenAI's new o1 model, the latest in generative AI news and my new book "Supremacy."

Someone pinch me. My book 'Supremacy' just got shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024. 🙀 You can get your hands on the book here for the US: read.macmillan.com/lp/supremacy-9… Or here for UK readers: amazon.co.uk/Supremacy-Chat…

This is fascinating, dystopian and I could absolutely see it catching on.

"Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World" - prompted by an ad that came my way on social media, I decided to download an audio version of this new book by Parmy Olson. I'm now 16% of the way through it, and finding it fascinating goodreads.com/book/show/1998…

A contradiction facing SaaS companies is that they charge per employee who uses the software but are investing in AI whose selling point is companies need fewer employees. Salesforce is pivoting to charging $2 per “conversation” with a chatbot as their new usage based model.

The more I talk to businesses about how they're using generative AI, the more graduates in the next few years look vulnerable. Many are using AI to displace entry-level roles eg. at legal firms and hedge funds, also contractors, front-line sales and front-line customer service

something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails

This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.* Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy. And big tech has nothing to say about it. bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revita…