Genius Makers
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Genius Makers
| Full title | Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World |
|---|---|
| Author | Cade Metz |
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 360 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Metz’s history of the deep-learning revival told through its people — Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, the DeepMind acquisition, the 2012 auction that sent Hinton’s group to Google. The narrative history of how the field got bought. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the thread answering “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Artificial Intelligence — the field’s institutional history.
- Machine Learning — the technical turn the book narrates.
- Why Machines Learn — the mathematics under the same story, named in a different thread Kyle saved.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.