Description: "In this exciting and brilliantly reported book, Kevin Roose takes us behind the scenes of the secretive race to create artificial general intelligence. The AGI Chronicles is filled with drama and bitter rivalries, very colorful characters, and fascinating breakthroughs. Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." --Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk and The Codebreaker
Brief description: Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times, the cohost of the Hard Fork podcast, and the bestselling author of three books: Futureproof, Young Money, and The Unlikely Disciple. He is based in San Francisco, California.