About the Author
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.
发表于2024-05-18
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"This colorful 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, author of The Code Breaker
Recipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library Journal
THE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIME
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?
有关AI的演进,这是一部很好的汇总。集中不同的神经网络模型的发展和对标关键性事件都有很好的串联。同样是技术传记,作者笔力和walter Issacson相比尽管略微逊色,仍然是一部好书。
评分人工智能发展的八卦合集,足够有趣,Hinton这种一直苦苦求索,有所坚持的人太棒了。虽然算是一手开创了Deep learning的火热,但当很多人涌入又转头去做capsule 了。。相比而下,Gary Marcus感觉就是个碰瓷的骗子,深度学习不仅带火了从业者,也带火了评论家 。
评分近年的AI 发展简史。好看,很多八卦,哈哈
评分深度学习(到 2019 年左右)的发展史,虽然以各种技术进展和突破为话题,但是其实主要是各种 researcher 与 deep learning 相关的八卦和故事。看到这么多熟悉的名字和各种搞笑的轶事还是蛮好玩的,不过作者是在采访了几百人之后整合出来的这么一个故事线,大概在接受采访的时候人们会有一些避讳或者委婉或者疏漏甚至遗忘之类的,有个别事情在知道内情的情况下也可以看出作者的描述不一定准确,而且作者也加了一些有点奇怪的自己的观点,例如把 AlphaGo 去中国比赛比作乒乓球外交之类的。总之作为八卦趣闻看还是蛮不错的。
评分深度学习小历史,有趣,浅显
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