The Genius Makers is a ground-breaking account of the race to create Artificial Intelligence
Cade Metz is a technology correspondent with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine. He works in The New York Times' San Francisco bureau and lives across the bay with his wife Taylor and two daughters.
In Genius Makers, Cade Metz delivers the definitive take on how AI
technology came to be and what its arrival will mean for us humans.
The book relies on tireless reporting and delightful writing to
bring to life one of the most surprising and important stories of
our time. If you want to read one book to understand AI, this is
the one.
*Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of ELON MUSK*
This colourful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a
human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other
major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and
makes the quest thrilling.
*Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of LEONARDO
DA VINCI, STEVE JOBS and THE INNOVATORS*
Cade Metz has produced an enthralling narrative of the advance of
artificial intelligence. He describes the key personalities, the
seminal meetings and the crucial breakthroughs with his customary
eye for detail, building them into a dramatic history of this
era-defining technology.
*Kai-Fu Lee, author of AI SUPERPOWERS*
This is the inside story of how AI entered Google, Facebook, and
the rest of high tech. It is also the story of how Silicon Valley
and its mega-bucks infiltrated AI and changed its course. Chock
full of behind-the-scenes anecdotes and wry humour - we learn the
true tale of the technology that is transforming humanity.
*Oren Etzioni, chief executive, Allen Institute for Artificial
Intelligence*
One day soon, when computers are safely driving our roads and
speaking to us in complete sentences, we'll look back at Cade
Metz's elegant, sweeping Genius Makers as their birth story - the
Genesis for an age of sentient machines.
*Brad Stone, author of THE EVERYTHING STORE and THE UPSTARTS*
Many books proclaim that true artificial intelligence is on the
horizon, and this expert overview makes a convincing case that
genuine AI is . . . Metz tells his engrossing story through the
lives of a dozen geniuses, scores of brilliant men (mostly), and an
ongoing, cutthroat industrial and academic arms race . . . A
must-read, fully-up-to-date report on the holy grail of
computing.
*Kirkus Reviews*
The book is thorough and well researched. It provides a good
grounding in the challenges and issues that AI has faced, and the
big ethical issues that will need to be addressed going forwards
too.It is also written in an accessible and non jargon heady
manner, which ensures that it is a good read for the general reader
. . . Overall it is a great read, thought provoking, readable and a
really useful AI primer.
*Irish Tech News*
Colourful and readable . . . As computers steadily encroach into
almost every corner of our lives, these AI researchers are emerging
as the architects of our algorithmic age, shaping the information
we absorb and the decisions we make. As you would expect from a New
York Times technology reporter, Metz's book draws on extensive
access and meticulous research.
*Financial Times*
The book brings forth a compelling narrative that does not only put
into perspective what AI means to us humans, but also tells a
definitive story of how a project confined to the fringes of
scientific community became a buzzword for humanity . . . it's a
story that shows both the inventive best of humankind and its
darker side.
*British Asia News*
I hope that Cade Metz is already working on the sequel to this . .
. an author with a firm grip on his field, he makes a knowledgeable
guide to the intriguing corners of Silicon Valley and beyond.
*Times Higher Education*
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