‘The Infinity Machine’ captures the extraordinary drama of the high-stakes AI arms race. Sebastian Mallaby’s compelling biography of the DeepMind co-founder traces his life’s mission to create artificial general intelligence.
Mallaby shows how Demis Hassabis built DeepMind, set off the AI revolution, and is redrawing the map of global power.
Expertly structured and vividly reported, the book presents the most insightful portrait of Hassabis to date, based on 30 hours of conversations with the DeepMind co-founder and more than 100 interviews with people in his circle.
It is a gripping story about ambition colliding with ethics at the frontier of machine intelligence.
For a technology that is supposed to be about the future, ‘The Infinity Machine’ is, at heart, a book about temperament.
Mallaby “has tunneled deeply into one of the most influential artificial intelligence projects of our time,” said a reviewer.
It’s an entrancing and revealing journey, and what he finds is at once inspiring and terrifying.” —Steve Coll, Pulitzer prize award-winning author of Ghost Wars.
