The Datapreneurs, Bob Muglia
The Datapreneurs, Bob Muglia
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The Datapreneurs
The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future

Author: Bob Muglia, Steve Hamm

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 5 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

A leader in the data economy explains how we arrived at AI—and how we can navigate its future.

In The Datapreneurs, Bob Muglia helps us understand how innovation in data and information technology have led us to AI—and how this technology must shape our future. The long-time Microsoft executive, former CEO of Snowflake, and current tech investor maps the evolution of the modern data stack and how it has helped build today's economy and society. And he explains how humanity must create a new social contract for the artificial general intelligence (AGI)—autonomous machines intelligent as people—that he expects to arrive in less than a decade.

Muglia details his personal experience in the foundational years of computing and data analytics, including with Bill Gates and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and others that are not household names—yet. He builds upon Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics to explore the moral, ethical, and legal implications of today's smart machines, and how a combination of human and machine intelligence could create an era of progress and prosperity where all the people on Earth can have what they need and want without destroying our natural environment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Irene on September 13, 2023

Good information about IT history, it will help someone who would like to understand the direction of Information Technology, and where cloud and AI is headed. Author is extremely positive about AI, and AI will be prevalence in the future. Also, I felt impacted by the author's emphasis on the import......more

Goodreads review by David on August 16, 2023

This book is too short and is not really focused on AI. It is part memoir and part history of the people and technologies that make the data analytics era possible. The book is divided into 4 parts: 1. Relational Revolution: A look at the evolution of relational databases chronicling Microsoft's journe......more

Goodreads review by Marc on July 20, 2023

The many references to Microsoft's earlier years and many Silicon Valley companies is worthwhile.......more

Goodreads review by Dillon on December 29, 2023

Too high level to be that interesting......more