from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China
she finds her carefully constructed life slowly start to unravel
Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink
But there is something unspoken in this new household--where everything is so well tended to--and this summer must soon come to an end
Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the Race to Invent the Future from the city sundials ofOn 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