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Genius Makers

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

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Genius Makers

Auteur(s): Cade Metz
Narrateur(s): John Lee
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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 among 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:

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This was an excellent listen! If you have even the least interest in AI, then this is must read. It includes everything from the early days of AI, and how discoveries were made to the early days of OpenAI. All the key players are featured, giving an understanding of the roles they played. LISTEN TO THIS!

Excellent

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I would have given it 5 stars, but the author has a severe case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), and couldn’t help but express it over and over again. I found this extremely annoying.

Very informative

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I really enjoyed Genius Makers and I recommend it to anybody interested in AI or deep learning

great book on a challenging topic

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Genius Makers was a fascinating read—not just for its coverage of artificial intelligence, but for the unexpected geography of the story itself. It’s striking how much of the foundational talent and many pivotal early moments in AI were rooted in Canada. That said, it’s hard not to feel a sense of missed opportunity: while the ideas, researchers, and early breakthroughs were often Canadian, much of the economic risk-taking, large-scale implementation, and ultimate reward migrated to the US.

One of the book’s greatest strengths is its timing. Written before the release of ChatGPT, it tells the story of AI without the hindsight bias we now carry. Instead of assuming inevitability, the book captures the genuine uncertainty of the field—debating timelines, limits, and whether higher levels of intelligence were decades away or just around the corner. Reading this now, knowing that ChatGPT would emerge barely a year later, makes those debates feel especially compelling.

The narrative does an excellent job highlighting the excitement of AI’s evolution through landmark moments—such as machines beating the world’s best Go players and mastering complex games like DOTA—without framing them as mere stepping stones to today’s models. These achievements are treated as profound milestones in their own right.

Finally, the book shines in its portrayal of the people behind the progress. The personalities, rivalries, ambitions, and setbacks are laid out with nuance, showing both the brilliance and the very human struggles of those driving the field forward. Their trials and tribulations make the story feel less like a technical history and more like a deeply human one.

Overall, Genius Makers is an engaging, balanced account of modern AI—one that feels even more relevant when read in a post-ChatGPT world.

Great to understanding history of AI

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This book tells us about the players in the landscape of the Artificial Intelligence microcosm.
Where it started, the issues, where it is today and the future possibilities.

A.I.: Where it stands today.

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