Not Insects: The Life of Geoffrey Hinton - Hardcover

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The definitive biography of Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI and Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Geoffrey Everest Hinton spent fifty years pursuing an idea almost everyone in science dismissed as a dead end. He believed the way to build intelligent machines was to model them on the brain. He was right. Born into a dynasty of geniuses, Hinton's great-great-grandfather George Boole invented the binary logic that underpins all computing, while his father loved beetles more than his children. Hinton dropped out of Cambridge, read Dostoevsky in a London bedsit, then embarked on a career that would reshape civilization. He built the Boltzmann Machine. He co-authored the backpropagation paper that reopened the field of neural networks. He trained AlexNet, the system that launched the deep learning revolution. He sold his three-person startup to Google for $44 million and spent a decade inside the most powerful technology company on Earth. He also buried two wives. He raised two children alone. He bought a private island and cut down trees with a chainsaw to process his grief. In 2023, at seventy-five, he quit Google to warn the world that the technology he created might be the most dangerous thing in human history. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He estimates there is a ten to twenty percent chance that artificial intelligence will destroy civilization. Not Insects is the story of the man who taught machines to learn, and who now fears what they will learn next. Based on 40 primary sources including interviews from CBS 60 Minutes, The New Yorker, CNN, The Economist, the Nobel Prize, and Jon Stewart. From the author of Move 37: The Life of Demis Hassabis.

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