Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the Race to Invent the Future and the ordinary people who

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Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the Race to Invent the Future and the ordinary people whoOn 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 fired on a video call by the company's board. The firing made headlines around the globe: OpenAI is the leader in the race to build AGI artificial general intelligence, or AI that can think like a human being and Altman is