Genius Makers
by Cade Metz
A New York Times reporter's history of deep learning's rise: Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, the Google-Facebook-Microsoft talent wars, DeepMind and OpenAI. Well-reported and human.
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Three things you will actually use
- Persistence through decades of dismissal.
- Talent wars shape technology.
- Ideas wait for compute.
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Read the chapters on the 2012 ImageNet moment.
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The people behind deep learning.
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