Artifact Details

Title

Genius makers : idealists, big tech, and AI

Catalog Number

102792158

Type

Moving image

Description

Before it began to change our world for better or worse, an eclectic group of idealistic academics from across the globe spent decades trying to build artificial intelligence, often in the face of enormous skepticism. As their ideas came of age and began to supercharge everything from talking digital assistants to automated healthcare they were pulled into a world they did not expect… along with the rest of us. In Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, New York Times reporter Cade Metz uncovers the tale behind the hype and the hand-wringing.

In conversation with Wall Street Journal science reporter Daniela Hernandez, Metz explores AI from talking digital assistants to face recognition technology to self-driving cars and robotics, sharing the intimate, surprising, and often dramatic stories of the AI researchers and tech executives from some of the largest companies in the world who are most responsible for introducing AI into our daily lives.

Date

2021-03-30

Participants

Hernandez, Daniela, Moderator
Metz, Cade, Speaker

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Duration

01:29:24

Format

MOV

Category

Talk

Collection Title

CHM Live

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X9437.2021