Genius Makers

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.