Genius Makers

By Cade Metz,

Book cover of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Book description

'This colourful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective . . . Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling.' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
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This is the inside story of a small group of mavericks, eccentrics and geniuses who turned Artificial Intelligence from a…

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If ever a subject deserved the sweeping hand of a highly skilled journalist/historian, it’s generative AI and machine learning. The field is shaped by its founders’ idiosyncratic and fascinating personalities.

NYTimes reporter Cade Metz observed many events first-hand. We read about Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol recovering from losing to Google’s AI by mastering the machine’s logic. We see Geoffrey Hinton flying supine because of his back problems, and the origins of Joy Buolamwini’s famous Gender Shades project.

We get the backstory to the most serious issues: like how well can AI developers be trusted to manage risk? As a journalist-historian…

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