The Infinity Machine

An extraordinary portrait of our age – beautifully written, clear-eyed and engaged in the deepest ethical questions of our day -- Rory Stewart In this deeply reported and profoundly insightful book, Sebastian Mallaby chronicles the brilliant Demis Hassabis and the company he cofounded ... a colourful and engrossing tale but also a sophisticated description of how AI developed -- Walter Isaacson, author of <i> Elon Musk </i> Sebastian Mallaby has tunnelled deeply into one of the most influential artificial intelligence projects of our time. It's an entrancing and revealing journey … at once inspiring and terrifying -- Steve Coll, author of <i> The Achilles Trap </i> Captures the extraordinary drama of the high-stakes AI arms race ... a gripping story about ambition colliding with ethics at the frontier of machine intelligence -- Chris Miller, author of <i> Chip War </i> A truly revealing window into the biggest business phenomenon of our age … a quest for superhuman intelligence that already has far outraced the ideals and imaginings of its human creators -- Margaret O’Mara, author of <i> The Code </i> With his customary flair, Sebastian Mallaby relays the enchanting tale of how the British son of a Chinese Singaporean mother and Greek Cypriot father led google to pole position in the AI race and picked up a Nobel prize along the way -- Michael Moritz, author of <i> Leading </i> The Infinity Machine will teach you a lot about AI, and how human ability, vision, and tenacity remake the world -- Andrew McAfee, author of <i> The Geek Way </i>