Cade Metz

"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?

The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Genius Makers

企業巨頭的搶才大戰 : 如何改寫我們的世界?

AI製造商沒說的祕密

Cosa significa essere intelligenti? E umani? Cosa vogliamo davvero dalla vita e dall'intelligenza che abbiamo, o da quella che potremmo creare? In queste pagine Cade Metz tenta di rispondere a queste domande ripercorrendo l'evoluzione dell'intelligenza artificiale: ritenuta una tecnologia troppo futuristica, è stata per lungo tempo un progetto di ricerca di piccoli gruppi marginali di scienziati, fino a quando due studiosi - un maturo professore di informatica e un giovane neuroscienziato che pensava di essere il più grande scacchista del mondo - non hanno cambiato le cose. Attraverso percorsi molto diversi, hanno contribuito a catapultare l'intelligenza artificiale nelle nostre vite quotidiane. Riuscendo anche a creare un business milionario. Costruire l'intelligenza racconta la storia di questa rivoluzione tecnologica e della lotta che ha innescato tra aziende come Facebook, Google, Microsoft o OpenAI. È la storia di una competizione internazionale sempre più aspra. Ed è una storia che mostra il meglio della genialità umana e allo stesso tempo il suo lato oscuro: ogni passo avanti, infatti, è stato accompagnato da nuovi pregiudizi, bias inattesi e dall'annullamento della privacy. Grazie a centinaia di interviste con le menti più brillanti della Silicon Valley, l'autore ci mostra come, senza che quasi ce ne accorgessimo, negli ultimi cinquant'anni una nuova intelligenza artificiale ha iniziato a dominare l'economia, la società, i gesti di ogni giorno. Costruire l'intelligenza dispiega un mondo popolato di personaggi eccentrici, geniali, ricchissimi, conducendo il lettore a porsi gli interrogativi decisivi: dove ci porterà l'intelligenza artificiale? Davvero si stanno creando sistemi con un'intelligenza pienamente umana? E soprattutto: fino a dove ci spingeremo?

Costruire l'Intelligenza

'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 ____________________________________________________ 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 64-year old computer science professor and the other was a 36-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy. Though they took very different paths, together they helped catapult AI to the forefront of our daily lives and created a business worth billions. This is the story of a technological revolution and the arms race it has sparked among companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Elon Musk's OpenAI. It is also the story of the struggle between international powers, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias and prejudice that AI raises. New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz draws on unparalleled access to create an extraordinarily vivid account of an ongoing technological revolution. And he poses the question that will dominate the next half-century- where will AI take us next? ________________________________________________ '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

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