Parmy Olson

inside the hacker world of Lulzsec, Anonymous, and the global cyber insurgency

We are Anonymous

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World

In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy. In 2011, LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal. The groups have infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia. They have attacked the CIA and NATO. But instead of being sanctimonious and secretive, these cyber activists are flippant and taunting, never hesitating to mock those they've outsmarted. Today, governments, big businesses and social activists are waking up to the true power of the internet, and how it can be manipulated. This is the story of a hive mind, with many hackers across the globe connected to slice through security systems and escape untraced. Through the stories of four key members, We Are Anonymous offers a gripping, adrenalin-fuelled narrative drawing upon extensive research, and hundreds of conversations with the hackers themselves. By coming to know them - their backgrounds, families, motivations - we come to know the human side of their virtual exploits, showing exactly why they're so passionate about disrupting the internet's frontiers.

We Are Anonymous

uvnitř hackerského světa Anonymous, LulzSec a globální internetové vzpoury

Jsme Anonymous

帕米．奧森

★英國《金融時報》與施羅德投資2024年商業書籍獎★ ★美國亞馬遜書店編輯選書★ 矽谷金童山姆．奧特曼領軍的OpenAI 與開發AlphaGo擊敗世界棋王的DeepMind 競相打造超越人類智慧的AI產品 微軟、Google、特斯拉等科技巨頭也看準商機想用AI謀利 AI能否超越人類智慧？ 人類的未來又會往哪個方向走？ 2022年11月，名為ChatGPT的AI聊天機器人悄然上線。 它比語音客服更具人性，比Google搜尋更便捷，徹底顛覆人們對科技應用的想像。 ChatGPT的誕生也為AI大戰正式點燃烽火。 》》》一場AI霸主之爭，勢不可當 開發ChatGPT的OpenAI執行長山姆‧奧特曼矢志打造超越人類智慧的機器， 讓他不但成為矽谷新一代的精神領袖，也成功吸引金主們的注意， 包括相信AI末日論又亟欲控制AI、世界首富之一的馬斯克， 以及為了扭轉頹勢而焦頭爛額的微軟執行長納德拉。 另一位參戰的是夢想破解上帝奧祕的德米斯‧哈薩比斯。 他創立全球第一家AI公司DeepMind，因開發打敗圍棋世界冠軍的AlphaGo而聲名大噪。 他想解決「智慧問題」的初衷，得到Google創辦人佩吉的傾囊相助，更為自己拿下諾貝爾獎。 》》》各方激烈角力下，專家拉警報 看似無聲的AI競技場，由於背後科技巨頭們的角力使戰況變得更激烈。 哈薩比斯被馬斯克形容成想統治世界的「邪惡天才」； 奧特曼曾被OpenAI董事會趕下台，又火速回鍋。兩人不但必須面對各自的問題， 還得面對搶先機、搶人才、搶資金、搶輝達晶片等運算設備的壓力。 另一方面，這群AI技術的創造者在利益的驅動下， 放任有缺陷與偏見的AI技術滲透至各行各業、教育或媒體等領域， 讓一群專家學者不顧科技巨頭環伺，也毅然決然的加入戰局。 本書作者憑藉多年科技報導經驗和獨家內部資源，分析AI發展可能失控的危機， 描繪AI世界的真實樣貌，以及所有人最終必須付出何等代價。 各界好評 精采的將人工智慧發展定調為一場追逐技術、建立商業帝國、主導科技未來的驚心動魄競賽。 ──羅拉．哈拉夫（Roula Khalaf），《金融時報》與施羅德投資年度商業書籍獎評審團主席 本書講述AI公司創辦人們的故事，讓人工智慧這個主題變得平易近人且引人入勝。緊湊精彩，絲毫不乏味。 ──阿爾文德．納拉亞南（Arvind Narayanan），普林斯頓大學電腦科學教授、《AI不是萬靈丹》（AI Snake Oil）共同作者 金錢、權力和一樁可能改變世界的浮士德式交易，構成這部關於人工智慧競賽中兩大巨頭的及時且深入研究的報告。 ──加里．馬庫斯（Gary Marcus），紐約大學榮譽退休教授、《馴服矽谷》（Taming Silicon Valley）作者 作者以科技專業角度撰寫人工智慧，同時不失對推動其發展的背後人性具有深刻理解，相當罕見。她對AI的根源和影響瞭若指掌，為理解這場革命繪製豐富的藍圖。 ──提摩西．歐布里恩（Timothy L. O'Brien），《彭博觀點》資深執行編輯 這本迷人的書將通用人工智慧從純粹的科學追求，重新定位為野心勃勃的霸權競爭，呈現個人和企業目標的碰撞。本書提供理解當今最熱門新聞故事所需的豐富背景和視角，精準呈現崇高理想如何在金錢和權力的誘惑下演變為商業目標。 ──穆吉亞（Madhumita Murgia），金融時報AI領域編輯、《AI底層真相》（Code Dependent）作者 作者簡介 帕米．奧森 Parmy Olson 《彭博觀點》（Bloomberg Opinion）專欄作家，專門報導科技法規、人工智慧和社群媒體。她曾是《華爾街日報》和《富比世》記者，著有《我們是匿名者》（We Are Anonymous）。七年來，奧森長期報導人工智慧系統及其背後資金來源。她對臉書耗資190億美元收購WhatsApp及其後續影響的報導，登上兩次《富比世》封面故事及獲得兩次SABEW商業新聞獎提名。在《華爾街日報》任職期間，她揭露誇大AI能力的公司；當Google頂尖AI實驗室試圖從公司分離以控制其創造的超級人工智慧，她也搶先報導該祕密計畫。 譯者簡介 吳凱琳 台大外文系畢業，曾任職出版社與雜誌社，現為自由譯者，譯作包括：《AI賦能新學力》、《AI啟蒙時代》、《馬斯克傳》、《愈平靜愈有生產力》等書。

OpenAI、DeepMind與科技巨頭顛覆世界的競賽

AI霸主

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative artificial intelligence – and, therefore, the future of humanity. From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson. Two titans of Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google, rushed to embrace artificial intelligence. Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT. Google acquired DeepMind. Together, they now had the resources of the two leading AI companies in the world – and, with it, the potential for unlimited riches. But what is the cost of this arms race? Who will win out between Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) and Sam Altman (Open AI)? And, as we outsource ever more to this technology, what will be left for humans to do? Featuring a cast of larger-than-life characters, from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, Supremacy is a story of ambition, exploitation and secrecy, as gripping as any thriller. With exclusive access to sources at the top of the industry, Supremacy is your essential guide to the history – and the future – of the greatest invention of our time. 'Astonishing' – Financial Times 'A compelling warning' – The Times 'A riveting tale . . . Olson is a compelling storyteller' – New Scientist

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

Supremacy

WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive - until now. In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech Goliaths whose power is unprecedented in history. The story focuses on the continuing rivalry of two key CEOs at the center of it all, who cultivated a religion around their mission to build god-like super intelligent machines: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind. Supremacy sharply alerts readers to the real threat of artificial intelligence that its top creators are ignoring: the profit-driven spread of flawed and biased technology into industries, education, media and more. With exclusive access to a network of high-ranking sources, Parmy Olson uses her 13 years of experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.

AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

Erstmals packen die Hacker aus. Ende des Jahres 2010 nahmen weltweit Tausende an den digitalen Angriffen der Hackergruppe Anonymous auf die Webseiten von VISA, MasterCard und PayPal teil, um gegen die Sperrung der Konten von Wiki-Leaks zu protestieren. Splittergruppen von Anonymous infiltrierten die Netzwerke der totalitären Regime von Libyen und Tunesien. Eine Gruppe namens LulzSec schaffte es sogar, das FBI, die CIA und Sony zu attackieren, bevor sie sich wieder auflöste. Das Anonymous-Kollektiv wurde bekannt durch die charakteristische Guy-Fawkes-Maske, mit der sich die Aktivisten tarnen. Es steht für Spaß-Guerilla und politische Netzaktivisten ohne erkennbare Struktur, die mit Hacking-Attacken gegen die Scientology-Sekte und Internetzensur protestierten. Internetsicherheitsdienste und bald auch die gesamte Welt merkten schnell, dass Anonymous eine Bewegung war, die man sehr ernst nehmen sollte. Doch wer verbirgt sich eigentlich hinter den Masken? Inside Anonymous erzählt erstmalig die Geschichte dreier Mitglieder des harten Kerns: ihren Werdegang und ihre ganz persönliche Motivation, die sie zu überzeugten Hackern machte. Basierend auf vielen exklusiven Interviews bietet das Buch einen einzigartigen und spannenden Einblick in die Köpfe, die hinter der virtuellen Community stehen.

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