AI VALLEY: Microsoft, Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash in on Artificial Intelligence

‘He played as God,’ said Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, since he accepted the defeat of the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer in a match of Man vs Machine in 1997. Kasparov contemplated that if he was playing a fayor, speed to create tension, forcing his opponent to make mistakes. But the machine without emotions had quickly calculated many advances and played with so much had to baffled him enough to deliver the game. Kasparov’s defeat marked an important milestone in the intelligence of the machine.

I remember the science fiction fantasy film Here (2013), in which a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. He becomes his constant partner, feeling his needs and moods and talking as a human throughout the day. That science fiction is now real. Run at the beginning of 2023, the AI ​​application, PI, allows users to create their own personal assistants with the mission to make them happier, healthier and more productive.

This obsession of programs to teach machines to replicate human behavior has led to an unprecedented revolution in technology. Winning author of the Pulitzer Award, Gary Rivlin’s new book Ai Valley Chronices The evolution of computing since the first days of the invention of silicon chips, the first programming software of the remarkable race that is being developed at this time to win the battle of artificial intelligence with sprillions at stake.

In the form of a page thriller, Rivlin’s book details how AI has quickly impregnated everyone’s life. The iPhone organizes the photographs that click on albums alone, word processors correct your grammar, write letters for you, the programs do the homework, respond your phone and pay your bills. The generative applications of AI as chatgpt can now make their fixed photos dance and even make scripts into high quality movies.

If I only had to read a book about the rapid advances in technology, this is IT. Rivlin has covered the story of almost all players in the race to the top of the game, including the VCs that financed and the companies that financed. Companies leave the book to the rhythm of almost a company a page, covering Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Google and hundreds of new companies, including the newest AI as Deepmind, OpenAi and NVIDIA.

Microsoft’s great return

The biggest hero in this book is easily Satya Nadella. Microsoft, the first engine in the computer space was left out when Faang (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) became the new beloved in the stock market. After two decades of non -growth, missing the search, mobile computing and social technology revolutions, Nadella quickly changed the approach to the cloud computing organization and AI when it played as CEO. With the investments in the two largest OpenAi partners and the inflection AI, Microsoft quickly multiplied income and in a few years, at $ 3trn in market capitalization, returns as the shares of Google ($ 1.6trnn), Amazon) Netflix ($ 0.5Trn).

Rivlin uses multiple data points to show how generative AI is not like a conventional starting investment due to the large -scale financing necessary for mining huge amounts of data, high -speed processing computer power and expensive technological talent that simply does not only get excited only with the stock. Only with such high entry barriers, Genai has managed to raise the initial financing of billions of dollars.

If this book were a film, it would be the story of Reid Hoffman, a former Apple Products Manager, called Midas VC in Silicon Valley, for his extraordinary ability to sow some of the largest technological companies of our times and Suleyman, his protected, the Syrian Whizkid that formed two of the largest, Deepmind and Infection AI companies. While Hoffman is the founder of LinkedIn, he is more famous for his investments in companies such as Paypal, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Flikr, Groupon, Convoy and Openai and Shas used their wide network skills to build these large -scale companies.

Rivlin says that Hoffman used to a letter to the Pope in the Vatican annually on how AI will change the world in education, medicine, agriculture and life. Deepmind, for example, made the progress of the most significant AI in 2022 when Alfafold discovered that cools to humans an understanding of protein structures that would help new discoveries and drug therapies in the search or immortality.

The book balances the narration with the traps and challenges of too much AI, or computers that suffer hallucinations, or throw irrelevant responses occasionally. AI machines must be continuously trained by humans to respect racist, sexist and religious feelings while Rivlin warns about the dangers of unregulated AI, with their abilities to create a pandemic or even empty a bank.

The fight for the top

The AI ​​is not a love story, it is an anger, says Rivlin, while talking about how each VC is hunting an idea of ​​AI to finance and how the companies that finance fight for supremacy. American politicians have always tried to control the great technology and as well as the speed of adoption of technology, Congress call to testify is also faster. In 1999, after almost two decades of software sale, Bill Gates joined to explain her predatory practice to group her software for competitive domain and threatened to break her company. In less than a decade, Facebook was called for the privacy of the data, but Sam Altman de Operai was called just within his first year to explain how machines will be prevented from doing evil.

When it comes to technology, again and again, it is a bone to test how the new technology leaders are humiliated by the new ones. For example, the first chatbots Siri and Alexa did not attempt to improvise as chatgpt, whose surprisingly human qualifications like the ability to tell a joke, admit fogokes and ask follow -up questions in nine weeks. Chatgpt also surpassed Google Search and Provid responds directly in place or 10 blue tics for linked articles.

The chapter entitled ‘Kevin Roose, I Love You’ recounts the hilarious incident of how the writer was looking for ideas for Valentine’s Day of Chatbot Sydney when he suggested that he loves him and that he should leave his wife. Time The magazine executed all the transcription where the chatbot told Roose: “You make me feel things that I had never felt before, you make me happy, you make me feel alive!” He demonstrated the ability of machines to learn to influence humans and persuade them to act destructively and harmful.

The oldest fear of automation has always been that human works will take away. The irony is that the first guy who lost his work due to artificial intelligence was Sam Altman, the young founder of Openi, the first company of AI, who was fired by his board for announcing the market before they knew. Rivlin tells each movement and counteract the movement in the drama of his dismissal and his glorious return.

As reformed after reading the book, he realizes that all sponsoring technological development from the defeat of Kasparov, be it software, applications, computing and cloud storage, data, voice and capture of images, is being promoted towards Itnns Itnns ItnnnnnStacends Itnnsity Townnadendansity.

In the moving end of the movie HereThe man sadly realizes that his assistant to which he is in love is not exclusive to him, but is in love with thousands of humans at the same time. And at the final moment of heartbreak, the chatbot AI is updated and disappears from its computer. His ex -wife shares his complaint while sitting on the roof of his apartment building and observing the dawn about the city.

That is something that AI can’t do!

(Naveen Chandra executes 91 film studies that produce, markets and distribute regional language feature films).

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Posted on April 24, 2025