{"product_id":"not-insects-the-life-of-geoffrey-hinton-1","title":"Not Insects: The Life of Geoffrey Hinton","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThe first definitive biography of the Nobel Prize-winning \"Godfather of AI\" — the man who taught machines to learn, then quit Google to warn the world about what he built.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey Hinton spent fifty years pursuing an idea that almost everyone in science said was a dead end. He believed that the way to build intelligent machines was to model them on the brain. He was right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn into a dynasty of geniuses — his great-great-grandfather George Boole invented the binary logic that underpins all computing, his father loved beetles more than his children — Hinton dropped out of Cambridge, read Dostoevsky in a London bedsit, and then embarked on a career that would reshape civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe built the Boltzmann Machine. He co-authored the backpropagation paper that reopened the field of neural networks. He trained AlexNet, the system that launched the deep learning revolution. He sold his three-person startup to Google for $44 million. He won the Turing Award and the Nobel Prize in Physics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe also buried two wives. He raised two children alone. He bought a private island and cut down trees with a chainsaw to process his grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2023, at the age of seventy-five, he quit Google to warn the world that the technology he had created might be the most dangerous thing in human history. He estimates there is a ten to twenty percent chance that artificial intelligence will destroy civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot Insects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of the man who taught machines to learn — and who now fears what they will learn next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on 40 primary sources including interviews from CBS 60 Minutes, The New Yorker, CNN, The Economist, the Nobel Prize, Jon Stewart, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912809930943,"sku":"8743267c-133a-4a05-9743-ab98f37839cf","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/7880f2909e58a674634cf50e7b57978d.jpg?v=1785028392","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/not-insects-the-life-of-geoffrey-hinton-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}