The Race
for AI

Everything I experienced with artificial intelligence in these four years. Written in a month.

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It all started when I asked ChatGPT a question and found myself wondering how it was possible for a machine to respond that way. From there, I couldn't stop. What's really going on behind that response? What does it mean for a model to "learn"? Why can it solve complex problems and, at the same time, make up information with absolute certainty?

This book explores those questions from the perspective of someone who isn't a programmer and who didn't come to artificial intelligence through academia, but rather through work and curiosity. I share how I learned to use these tools in my day-to-day work, and what I was thinking along the way.

This isn't a technical manual. It's about what I experienced, what I understood, and what I still wonder about a technology that millions of people already interact with every day.

Leonardo Salas Catania

Leonardo Salas Catania

He founded six companies, sold one, and shut down some others. For the past 18 years, he has been developing and selling software for internet service providers in Latin America, always from a business perspective rather than a programming one. He is the author of The Race for AI, a book in which he recounts firsthand how someone who didn't know how to code ended up incorporating artificial intelligence into the way he works, builds products, and makes business decisions.

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