author of Outliers and The Tipping Point
With a touch of magic
revelatory account of the individual who is leading us into what he himself has called “the intelligence age
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future Self Help author of Outliers and TheFrom an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17, 2023, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was summarily