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.
"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?
發表於2024-05-18
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轉自《品玩》 2013年3月,Google花費4400萬美元收購瞭多倫多大學的一傢初創公司DNNResearch。 這傢公司在當時不僅沒有任何産品,也壓根沒有生産産品的計劃。它隻有三位員工:當時已經六十餘歲的多倫多大學計算機係教授GeoffreyHinton,和他的兩個學生AlexKrizhevsky和IIyaSutsk...
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非常精彩地描述瞭深度學習得發展史。這是作者過去八年受雇於 Wired 和 NYT 而采訪的精華:)
評分非常精彩地描述瞭深度學習得發展史。這是作者過去八年受雇於 Wired 和 NYT 而采訪的精華:)
評分天時地利人和。神經網絡的序麯從幾十年前娓娓鋪開,到如今大公司和大人物在裏麵的故事。最生動的還是Hinton的種種,串聯瞭整個故事。
評分近年的AI 發展簡史。好看,很多八卦,哈哈
評分非常精彩地描述瞭深度學習得發展史。這是作者過去八年受雇於 Wired 和 NYT 而采訪的精華:)
Genius Makers 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載