Genius makers: the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world
(Book)
"New York Times Silicon Valley beat reporter Cade Metz has an insider's perspective on the greatest tech story of our time--a story that no one else has been in a position to tell. What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing. Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit down--but still made his way across North America for the moment that would define a new age of technology. The other was a thirty-six-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy who laid claim to being the greatest game player of all time before vowing to build a machine that could do anything the human brain could do. They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. But both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. Their ideas drove a new kind of arms race, spanning Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and OpenAI, a new lab founded by Silicon Valley kingpin Elon Musk. But some believed that China would beat them all to the finish line. Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict between national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question: How far will we let it go?"--
Notes
Metz, C. (2021). Genius makers: the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world. New York, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Metz, Cade. 2021. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. New York, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Metz, Cade, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. New York, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Metz, Cade. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. New York, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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