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Cade Metz
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New York Times reporter, covering A.I., driverless cars, and other changes: [email protected]. My book, "Genius Makers": bit.ly/GeniusMakers.
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    Cade Metz
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    Mar 16, 2021
    My book on the rise of A.I. arrives today (bit.ly/GeniusMakers), and this excerpt is where the book begins. It had to begin here. This is a story you have never heard, and it encapsulates a global arms race that is only just getting started: wired.com/story/secret-a…
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    Genius Makers by Cade Metz: 9781524742690 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
    "This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes...
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    Cade Metz
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    Jul 22, 2019
    Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, the research lab overseen by startup guru Sam Altman that says (with all seriousness) that it wants to build "artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a machine that can do anything the human brain can do:
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    With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain (Published 2019)
    OpenAI, now managed by start-up guru Sam Altman, wants to create a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. Skeptics wonder if it is possible.
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    Cade Metz
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    May 5, 2017
    I am joining The New York Times to cover AI and other bits of the future. At @WIRED through the end of May to cover the return of AlphaGo
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    Cade Metz
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    May 1, 2023
    I flew to Toronto last week for a chat with Geoff Hinton, the venerable A.I. researcher who spent more than 50 years nurturing the idea at the heart of ChatGPT. He has left Google so that he can share his concerns that A.I. could cause serious harm:
    Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is leaving Google so that he can freely share his concern that artificial intelligence could cause the world serious harm.
    ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (Published 2023)
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    Cade Metz
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    May 22, 2019
    Google runs a service called Duplex that can call a restaurant and make reservations on its own, mimicking the voice of a human. But @bxchen and I tracked it down in the wild and found that some of the calls are made by actual humans:
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    Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. to Mimic Humans (Sometimes) (Published 2019)
    In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.
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    Cade Metz
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    Jan 14, 2018
    How big is the sudden explosion of startups building AI chips? There are 45 of them, and at least five have raised $100 million:
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    Big Bets on A.I. Open a New Frontier for Chip Start-Ups, Too (Published 2018)
    From nytimes.com
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    Cade Metz
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    Nov 18, 2018
    A.I. researchers at several top labs are demonstrating "explosive progress" in the long push toward machines that can understand natural language: nytimes.com/2018/11/18/tec…
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    Cade Metz
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    May 30, 2019
    Top research labs like DeepMind and OpenAI have built artificial intelligence that can master the virtual worlds of first-person video games like Quake III and StarCraft II. What does this mean for A.I. in our world?:
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    DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too (Published 2019)
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    Cade Metz
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    May 17, 2016
    My Wired magazine cover story on the unexpected humanity of the Google machine that plays the ancient game of Go:
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    Inside the Epic Go Tournament Where Google’s AI Came to Life
    From wired.com
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    Cade Metz
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    Feb 13, 2021
    Take a trip deep into the Silicon Valley psyche:
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    Silicon Valley’s Safe Space (Published 2021)
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    Cade Metz
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    Apr 19, 2018
    Tax forms from OpenAI -- the artificial intelligence lab founded by Elon Musk -- open a new window onto salaries and bonuses paid to top A.I. researchers. Top figure: $1.9 million. And that was a bargain:
    Artificial intelligence experts are commanding eye-popping salaries. Including a signing bonus, OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016.
    A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit (Published 2018)
    From nytimes.com
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    Cade Metz
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    Dec 14, 2018
    A funny thing just happened in Chandler, Arizona. Photog @DomjValent and I were following the Waymo cars, trying to see if they were actually picking up passengers and driving them autonomously, and Waymo called the cops. This from the company that invented StreetView...
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    Cade Metz
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    Jul 13, 2019
    As they strive to build increasingly powerful forms of facial recognition technology, internet giants, start-ups, and academic labs are amassing enormous databases of people’s faces as a way of training their A.I. systems:
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    Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face (Published 2019)
    Large databases, built with images from social networks and dating services, contain millions of pictures of people’s faces. Some are shared worldwide.
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    Cade Metz
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    Feb 26, 2023
    When people chat with chatbots, they see what they want to see. A.I. pioneer Terry Sejnowski compares this to the Mirror of Erised in the Harry Potter books. The Mirror seems to provide truth. But really, it shows the desires of anyone who stares into it:
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    Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror. (Published 2023)
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