Genius Makers
by Cade Metz · first published 2021
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"New York Times Silicon Valley beat reporter Cade Metz has an insider's perspective on the greatest tech story of our time--a story that no one else has been in a position to tell. 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 s
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…given by peers, acknowledging impact that may happen in the future. Because it often takes decades to have impact, and it may occur after the researcher has passed away --- [1] https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Makers-Mavericks-Brought-Faceb... - good book if you’re interested in how technology transfer happened in the last 10-15 years
on “Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]” ↗Cade Metz wrote about the Google-DeepMind deal in his book "Genius Makers", which I enjoyed a lot.
on “The Inside Story of the Greatest Deal Google Ever Made: Buying DeepMind” ↗background from the great Genius Makers history of ML: The press needed heroes for its AI narrative. It chose Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, and sometimes Ng, thanks largely to the promotional efforts of Google and Facebook. The narrative did not…
on “LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence does not cite prior work” ↗OpenAI and FAIR are definitely in the same league as Google but Google has been all-in on AI from the beginning. They've probably spent well over $100B on AI research. I really enjoyed the Genius Makers book which came out last year from an NYT reporter on history of ML race. Deepmind apparently turned down a FB offer of double what Google was offering.
on “Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model” ↗For a less technical history of the field and major players I'd recommend Genius Makers.
on “Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?” ↗For a great account of the history of research in AI, from the 70s to 2020, consider "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World". It was very interesting for me to learn about the Symbolic approach to AI, which in the 70s was getting all the hype, while the Connectionist…
on “The Joy of Computer History Books” ↗…google wanted "keywords keywords keywords!". Can't blame them, who wouldn't want to play god sit back and watch people make SEO offerings to you or start a bidding war to be nearest your text box. [1] Genius Makers - Cade Metz
on “ChatGPT killer: Google-owned, UK-born AI startup Deepmind is working on a rival” ↗…social media profiles and his new book description, he's purely jealous that he wasn't allowed to be the man to "expose" SSC and how LessWrong and SSC played role in some events in his upcoming AI book "Genius Makers" (jeez what a name...).
on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” ↗I recently read Genius Makers and very much enjoyed it, and was wondering if there were any similar books to help me better understand where we currently are regarding QC and how we got here
on “Ask HN: Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing?” ↗