The Culture
of Artificial Intelligence
STORIES, PEOPLE, COMPANIES AND SCENARIOS
Artificial intelligence culture is far more than a story of computers and algorithms: it’s a human story, shaped by visions, failures, extraordinary intuitions and unexpected revolutions. Exploring it means understanding not only how this technology has developed until today, but who brought us here and in which direction it could go.
Dario Amodei: Who Is the Father of Claude.
Dario Amodei is a scientist who quickly grasped the importance of technological progress for humanity. A progress that, however, must be guided by the values that set this entrepreneur apart from his Silicon Valley peers. It’s with this awareness that he founded his company, Anthropic, and conceived an LLM of his own, Claude, becoming in the process a figure many find uncomfortable. Let’s find out the story of a special, unconventional man who chose an ethical path to face a complex future. (read more)
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Anthropic's Claude: the 'ethical' AI.
To ensure that the LLM Claude behaves in a safe and responsible manner, Anthropic developed an original method called “Constitutional AI”: a set of ethical principles that the model uses to autonomously evaluate and correct its own responses, reducing dependence on human feedback alone.
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1956: Just One Summer to Develop Artificial Intelligence?
In 1956, during the Dartmouth Conference, an event considered of fundamental importance for the birth of AI as we know it today, the participants were convinced that the new technology would need just one summer to reach maturity (!). It took nearly seventy years instead… and the best is yet to come. (read more)
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The History of Artificial Intelligence: From Turing to the Present Day.
From a decidedly bold idea dating back to the 1940s, to today’s multimodal LLMs, in this article we retrace together the fundamental milestones of the history of Artificial Intelligence: a fascinating path, studded with overwhelming enthusiasm and equally bitter disappointments, of stubborn researchers who never stopped believing in their own intuition and of discoveries that will increasingly change the world around us and the way we relate to it. (read more)
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Sam Altman: The Man Who Brought AI to the World.
Visionary to some, controversial to others, Sam Altman is the man who more than anyone else transformed Artificial Intelligence from a niche technology into a global phenomenon. Let’s discover who he really is and what role he has played in this revolution. (coming soon)
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OpenAI: The History and Vision of the Company That Changed Everything.
Founded as a non-profit organization with the mission of developing safe Artificial Intelligence for humanity, OpenAI has become one of the most contradictory and fascinating corporate cases in recent history. A story of ambitious visions, controversial decisions and unexpected revolutions.
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The shortest dismissal in the history of technology?
In November 2023, OpenAI’s board of directors fired Sam Altman during a scheduled video call. Five days later, the company’s governing body, overwhelmed by the revolt of almost all its employees, was forced to reinstate him. In the meantime, Altman had already almost founded a new company.
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