Genius Makers

Cade Metz's 2021 narrative history of the deep learning revolution, centering on the researchers — Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, Sutskever — who kept neural network research alive and then rode it to transform the industry.

Provides the human narrative of the deep learning revolution — the personalities, vendettas, funding droughts, and competitive breakthroughs — making the technical history accessible and showing how much of AI's trajectory was shaped by a small group of true believers.