January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h
English
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PART IFoundations of the RenAIssance
AI is going to revolutionize industries, sciences, and daily life. It will solve the existential problems that have confounded us for millenia, and those we’ve created for ourselves in just a few generations. It will rewrite social constructs and redefine what it means to be human.
But before we get into where we are going, I am obligated to explain to you how we got here. At the risk of boring you, and losing your interest forever, I urge you to read about the remarkable confluence of forces and events that made the rapid advancements in AI possible. This matters to you for two reasons:
- An understanding of AI’s essential ingredients—architectures, compute, data, open collaboration—will help to leverage the technology better in your life and work.
- AI may be the last technology that humans invent on our own, but it won’t be the last technology. You should take a keen interest in how we built the bedrock of superintelligence so that you can make better sense of the waves of innovations to come.
I’m also obligated to tell you the ways in which AI could (and likely will) compromise our lives before I tell you how it will reduce suffering and increase joy.
Only with this history and the appropriate disclaimers, do I consider it honest and reasonable to tell you about my vision for a much brighter future.
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