Genius Makers
The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
AI history spanning Hinton, Goodfellow (GAN inventor), and pioneers at Google, Facebook.
About the book
Cade Metz's narrative history of AI's transformation from academic pursuit to corporate powerhouse. Features Ian Goodfellow prominently as a main subject — the GANFather whose generative adversarial networks became foundational to modern AI — alongside Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and other key figures. Documents their personal journeys, competitive dynamics, and roles in building machine learning labs at Google, Facebook, and beyond.
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