Cade Metz
Teoksen Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World tekijä
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Cade Metz is a technology correspondent with The New York Times. He works in the San Francisco bureau and lives across the bay with his wife, Taylor, and two daughters.
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Metz does an exceptional job of chronicling the research that changed all that, and especially the key people who stubbornly stayed focused on the work. He correctly highlights the key technical contributors as well -- advent of huge amounts of data, enormous distributed storage and compute capacity, the happy accident of GPUs designed for rendering video games working amazingly well on the math required by machine learning. It's all written in a really accessible way. He explains what convolutional neural networks are in a way that an ordinary person can understand.
The book discusses the tension between folks who believe in artificial general intelligence and those who think that accomplishment is in the distant future. The people debating that point, and doing the research, talked to Metz, and he uses their words directly to explain the different points of view.
This is an excellent history, taking the field right up to the present day. No doubt there will be plenty of fodder for a sequel, in ten or twenty years!… (lisätietoja)