When Geoffrey Hinton-known as the "Godfather of Deep Learning"-walked away from his role at Google in 2023, he did more than resign. He broke with decades of optimism to issue a warning: the very systems he helped create may now be advancing faster than our ability to control them.After the Breakthrough: Geoffrey Hinton's Warning and the Battle to Control AI tells the story of how artificial intelligence leapt from laboratory marvel to global force-and why some of its inventors are now sounding alarms. From the rediscovery ...
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When Geoffrey Hinton-known as the "Godfather of Deep Learning"-walked away from his role at Google in 2023, he did more than resign. He broke with decades of optimism to issue a warning: the very systems he helped create may now be advancing faster than our ability to control them.After the Breakthrough: Geoffrey Hinton's Warning and the Battle to Control AI tells the story of how artificial intelligence leapt from laboratory marvel to global force-and why some of its inventors are now sounding alarms. From the rediscovery of backpropagation to the rise of large-scale models, this book traces the arc of triumphs that made today's AI possible. But it also examines the shadows: systems that act without us, alignment that falters, labor markets destabilized, and truths drowned in synthetic noise. At the center is a profound question: what happens when the creators of a world-changing technology begin to doubt that anyone can fully steer it? Blending history, science, and civic reflection, this book explores: How pioneers like Hinton nurtured ideas once dismissed as heresy into breakthroughs that transformed computing. Why the acceleration of capabilities has outpaced our intuitions about safety and control. The risks that matter most now-from disinformation and economic upheaval to autonomy and weaponization. The choices governments, corporations, and citizens must confront before drift becomes destiny. Urgent but not alarmist, After the Breakthrough is a call to stewardship: the recognition that progress is not measured by what machines can do, but by how well their power is bound to human purposes. For readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Walter Isaacson, and Shoshana Zuboff, this is both a narrative of invention and a warning from within-a book about the future written in the voice of those who helped shape it.
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