{"product_id":"the-infinity-machine-demis-hassabis-deepmind-and-the-quest-for-superintelligence-softcover","title":"The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence (Softcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary... beautifully written, clear-eyed and\nengaged in the deepest ethical questions of our day' Rory Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to\ncontrol the future – and what it means to win\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEven in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is\nrecognized as a special case. Born to working class, immigrant parents in North\nLondon, a chess prodigy by five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a\nseven-figure job offer from a video-game studio to study science at Cambridge.\nLong before the current obsession with AI, he founded the path-breaking company\nDeepMind in order to pursue a single, audacious goal: the dream of artificial\nsuperintelligence, which would solve humanity’s hardest problems, change life\nand work as we know it, and perhaps even unlock the deepest mysteries of the\nUniverse. For his scientific achievements, he won a Nobel Prize in 2024, and\nhis company, now Google DeepMind, is considered the tech giant’s engine room.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFor the past three years, Sebastian Mallaby has had unprecedented access to\nHassabis and DeepMind, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with him and\nhis inner circle as well as detractors and rivals at other companies. The\nresult is a revelation-packed portrait of a singular mind and a historic\nreckoning with the AI revolution, a shift potentially more significant than any\nsince the dawn of complex thought 70,000 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs Mallaby chronicles, DeepMind is locked in an arms race with Silicon Valley\ncompetitors to build artificial general intelligence, and thereby become the\nkeeper of humanity’s future. Yet this is not a Silicon Valley story. Hassabis\nhas remained in Britain, and unlike his rivals, his aims are not wealth and\npower but scientific enlightenment. Like them, however, he is haunted by the\nmemory of Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the atom bomb. He aims to control\nthe technology, but the technology may ultimately control him – and humanity\nwrit large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSebastian Mallaby \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several books\nincluding the \u003ci\u003eThe Power Law\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMore Money Than God \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe\nMan Who Knew\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; McKinsey\nBusiness Book of the Year Award.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eA former \u003ci\u003eFinancial\nTimes \u003c\/i\u003econtributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist,\nMallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the\nCouncil on Foreign Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44995249569999,"sku":"9780241703557","price":40.28,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_681846da-5690-4ac4-97d2-4a631b3f6d11.jpg?v=1776843739","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-infinity-machine-demis-hassabis-deepmind-and-the-quest-for-superintelligence-softcover","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}