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Drive genius mavericks5/31/2023 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 both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. 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. With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. 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? Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling." author of Recipient of starred reviews in both and "This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective.
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