Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz

press. The reporters who wrote about his work in the late 1950s, Rosenblatt said, “fell to the task with all of the exuberance and sense of discretion of a pack of happy bloodhounds.”

What artificial intelligence cannot create, it cannot understand.

Hassabis was confident the machine was now immune to the kind of sudden meltdown that arrived during the fourth game in Korea, when Lee Sedol, with Move 78, exposed a gap in its knowledge of the game. “A

The nativists stand in opposition to the empiricists, who believe that human knowledge comes mostly from learning. Gary Marcus studied under Pinker, the psychologist, linguist, and popular science author, before building his own career around the same fundamental attitude. Now he was wielding his nativism in the world of artificial intelligence. He was the world’s leading critic of neural networks, a Marvin Minsky for the age of deep learning.

too. “I think one could make a pretty good case that truly human-level AI and beyond will have an overwhelming and transformational impact on society in ways that are hard to predict and imagine,” he said. “I think it will deconstruct pretty much all human systems.

“It’s been a long-standing problem,” he often said. As