#499 — The Birth of AGI
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Kevin, thanks for joining me. Thank you so much for having me, Sam. Well, you have written what uh what I think is probably the first uh proper history of the birth of uh AGI. The the book is the AGI Chronicles. The inside story of the race to create artificial superintelligence. Very fun read, very uh behind the scenes. And um
Maybe before we jump into the book and and its various uh players. Can you just summarise how you came to focus on this topic? Because you were not always on the On the tech beat. So uh how did you get into A Gi and when w when did you first Convince yourself that this was Worth paying attention to above
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