Genius Makers by Cade Metz Summary
Overview of Genius Makers
"Genius Makers" unveils the maverick scientists who revolutionized AI at Google and Facebook. Walter Isaacson called it a "colorful page-turner" that humanizes tech's most transformative quest. What ethical price are we paying as Geoffrey Hinton's deep learning dreams reshape our world?
Similar books to Genius Makers
通过作者的声音感受这本书
将知识转化为引人入胜、富含实例的见解
快速捕捉核心观点，高效学习
以有趣互动的方式享受这本书
核心要点
The Birth of a Revolution: When Machines Began to Learn
In December 2012, a peculiar scene unfolded in Lake Tahoe. Geoff Hinton, a tall, distinguished AI researcher who hadn't sat down for seven years due to a back injury, found himself at the center of a high-stakes bidding war. Tech giants Google and Baidu were offering millions for his tiny company, DNNresearch. What made this three-person startup so valuable? Hinton and his students had achieved a breakthrough in neural networks that demonstrated unprecedented accuracy in image recognition-igniting what would become the deep learning revolution. This moment marked a dramatic turning point in artificial intelligence, but it was hardly the beginning of the story. The seeds had been planted decades earlier, in 1958, when Frank Rosenblatt unveiled the Perceptron-a machine heralded as an electronic brain capable of mimicking human cognition. "We are now on the threshold of an era that will be strongly influenced, and quite possibly dominated, by intelligent machines," Rosenblatt declared with remarkable prescience. But the Perceptron's abilities were vastly overstated, creating the first in a series of boom-and-bust cycles that would characterize AI's tumultuous history. The field soon split into competing camps: those who believed in brain-inspired neural networks versus those who favored rule-based symbolic AI. When Marvin Minsky published a devastating critique of the Perceptron's limitations, neural network research was effectively sidelined for nearly two decades-a technological road not taken that makes you wonder: how different might our world be if this approach hadn't been abandoned?
The Underground Years: Persistence Through the AI Winter
Google Brain: The Sleeping Giant Awakens
From Games to Reality: AI's Watershed Moments
The Shadow Side: Ethics in the Age of Intelligent Machines
The Human Element: What Machines Still Can't Do
Beyond Technology: AI as the New Frontier
快速摘要模式 - 9分钟阅读或收听《Genius Makers》摘要
将《Genius Makers》的核心观点拆解为易于理解的要点，了解创新团队如何创造、协作和成长。
闪卡模式 - 《Genius Makers》精华：10条核心见解
将《Genius Makers》提炼为快速记忆要点，突出坦诚、团队合作和创造力的关键原则。
趣味模式 - 《Genius Makers》的启示 - 20分钟故事
通过生动的故事体验《Genius Makers》，将创新经验转化为令人难忘且可应用的精彩时刻。
个性化模式 - 0分钟阅读或收听《Genius Makers》摘要
随心提问，选择声音，共同创造真正与你产生共鸣的见解。
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
免费获取《Genius Makers》摘要的 PDF 或 EPUB 版本。可打印或随时离线阅读。