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

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New York Times journalist Cade Metz traces the modern deep learning era from Geoffrey Hinton's early neural network research through the ImageNet breakthrough, the Google Brain and DeepMind acquisitions, and OpenAI's founding—told through the personalities and rivalries of the researchers who built it. An essential narrative history of how academic AI became the most valuable technology in the world. Widely cited as the definitive journalist account of the deep learning era that the AI Canon's technical papers describe from the inside.

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Narrative history of the deep learning era; the journalist's account of the researchers and organizations behind the landmark papers the AI Canon cites.
Yann LeCun

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“A very nice book by NYT's Cade Metz on the recent history of AI and the meteoric rise of Deep Learning.”

LeCun praised the book on Twitter in March 2021; it features his own role in the deep-learning story.