The First Age of AI
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- The First Age of AI
- Author
- Richard Murch
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798257681516
- Item weight
- 186 grams
And yet something fundamental is shifting beneath the surface of daily life — something in the relationship between human capability and machine capability that has no precise precedent in history.
I want to be careful here and I am
The temptation in any foreword to a book about artificial intelligence is to reach for the apocalyptic or the utopian — to plant a flag at one extreme or the other and invite readers to defend the perimeter. That is not this book's project.
What I am describing is not the end of history or the dawn of a golden age. It is something more unsettling and more interesting: a genuine inflection point, the kind that arrives not with a bang but with a slow accumulation of small surprises that one day resolve into a new reality.
I hope you enjoy my book
The current generation of frontier AI is dominated by a small number of large actors: a handful of US-based AI labs operating as either independent companies or subsidiaries of technology giants, and a growing set of Chinese organizations pursuing parallel development tracks.
The resource requirements for training frontier models — hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in compute, vast proprietary datasets, teams of specialized researchers — create significant barriers to entry that have concentrated cutting-edge capability in a small number of hands.
Where does this leave us? We are in a period of genuine and rapid AI advancement, with real and growing practical capability, significant and often underappreciated limitations, a competitive landscape that creates powerful pressures toward both development and deployment, and institutional frameworks for governance and oversight that have not kept pace with the technology.
This is the actual lay of the land. Everything that follows in this book is an attempt to help you navigate it with clear eyes.
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