Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
暫譯: 天才創造者：將人工智慧帶入 Google、Facebook 及全球的先驅者
Metz, Cade
商品描述
--Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker "Entertaining and valuable... essential."--Los Angeles Times
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?
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本色彩繽紛的翻頁書將人工智慧置於人類的視角中。透過Geoff Hinton和其他主要人物的生活，Metz解釋了這項變革性技術，並使這場探索變得刺激無比。
—Walter Isaacson，《The Code Breaker》的作者
「娛樂性和價值兼具……必讀。」
—《洛杉磯時報》
我們時代未被告知的科技故事
什麼是聰明？什麼是人類？我們真正想要什麼，無論是來自我們擁有的智慧，還是我們可能創造的智慧？
透過深入且獨家的報導，來自《紐約時報》的矽谷記者Cade Metz帶你進入這些問題被回答的房間。在那裡，一種極其強大的新型人工智慧已經融入我們最大的公司、社會話語和日常生活中，而我們中的許多人甚至沒有注意到。
長期以來被視為遙遠未來的技術，人工智慧曾是一個被邊緣化的科學社群專案。然後，兩位研究者改變了一切。一位是六十四歲的計算機科學教授，他不開車也不搭飛機，因為他無法再坐下來——但仍然穿越北美，為了那一刻，這一刻將定義一個新的科技時代。另一位是三十六歲的神經科學家和棋類天才，他聲稱自己是有史以來最偉大的遊戲玩家，並發誓要建造一台能做任何人類大腦能做的事情的機器。
他們走上了兩條截然不同的道路，並對這一目標的到來速度存在分歧。但不久後，他們都被吸引進入科技產業的核心。他們的想法驅動了一場新的軍備競賽，涵蓋了Google、Microsoft、Facebook和由矽谷大亨Elon Musk創立的新實驗室OpenAI。但有些人認為中國會比他們更早到達終點。
《Genius Makers》戲劇性地呈現了國家利益、股東價值、科學知識追求以及對隱私、安全、偏見和歧視等人類關切之間的激烈衝突。就像一部偉大的維多利亞小說，這個由古怪、聰明、經常是難以想像卻突然富有的角色所構成的世界，將你引入我們能提出的最深刻的道德問題。而且像一部偉大的懸疑小說，它呈現了通往一個核心、重要問題的故事和事實：
我們會讓它走多遠？
作者簡介
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Cade Metz 是《紐約時報》的科技記者，專注於人工智慧、自駕車、機器人技術、虛擬實境及其他新興領域。之前，他曾擔任《Wired》雜誌的資深撰稿人。他在《紐約時報》的舊金山辦公室工作，與妻子 Taylor 和兩個女兒住在海灣對岸。
