[The Future of AI] Cade Metz, NYT tech correspondent talks about his book Genius Makers, and the pioneers of AI
Update: 2022-02-21
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Today, we are privileged to have Cade Metz join us. Cade is a reporter at the New York Times, and covers artificial intelligence and machine learning, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Before the New York Times, he was a reporter at Wired.
Cade has written what we think is one of the seminal books in AI called The Genius Makers, which is the story of the emergence of AI, from the 1950s to today. In the process of writing this book, he had conversations with some of the brightest and most capable people in the world of AI. He's joining us to share some of the narrative and what he’s learned through the process of writing.
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