In 2014, the British company DeepMind was acquired by Google. From the perspective of the subsidiary, this book follows developments in artificial intelligence over the subsequent decade.
Google, OpenAI, Meta, X, Amazon, Microsoft, and countless startups battle to build the world's smartest machines. Real milestones have been crossed. In the form of games, language models, image generators, video generators, and other applications, tangible products have been created. Every industry wants a taste. Advances in healthcare are promising. Advances in military weapons systems are debatable.
Attempts have been made to proceed with caution. But competition is ubiquitous in the natural world. Thus, the race is on. And nobody knows what good, bad, and ugly outcomes await. There will be copyright issues. The CCP and Chinese companies will try to win the race.
Today, AI learns from the corpus of existing information. It can also simulate complex systems. It may or may not be close to pioneering new knowledge.