无限机器：哈萨比斯、DeepMind与通往超级智能的追寻 The Infinity Machine:Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

基本信息

Publisher：Penguin Press

Publication date：March 31, 2026

Language：English

Print length：480 pages

ISBN-10：0593831845

ISBN-13：978-0593831847

Item Weight：1.5 pounds

Dimensions：6.47 x 1.47 x 9.54 inches

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书籍简介

本书出自一位创新与资本主义交汇点研究专家之手，基于深入采访，对世界上杰出、具进取心的科技远见家之一及其颠覆性公司进行了里程碑式的剖析。

即便以充斥着所谓天才的科技行业标准来看，德米斯·哈萨比斯（Demis Hassabis）也堪称特例。他出生于北伦敦一个贫困家庭，父母是移民。五岁时，他已是国际象棋神童；十几岁时，他便展现出惊人的编程天赋。在18岁之前，他拒绝了一份七位数的丰厚工作邀请，前往剑桥大学深造，以满足自己永无止境的科学好奇心。之后，他又在计算机科学领域之外，攻读了神经科学博士学位，致力于实现通用人工智能的梦想。他的目标是揭开生物学和理论物理学的奥秘，并引领人类走向超级富足的未来。如今，他与一小群志同道合的伙伴仍在这条道路上前行，领导着谷歌的人工智能研究，并在此过程中荣获诺贝尔奖。他构想的机器将不断丰富，甚至可能取代人类对宇宙的认知。

哈萨比斯投入了大量时间与塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比交谈，两人进行了超过三十个小时的对话。但马拉比也从哈萨比斯的批评者那里汲取了灵感，例如他疏远的联合创始人穆斯塔法·苏莱曼；从他的竞争对手那里汲取灵感，例如OpenAI的科学家伊利亚·苏茨克维尔；以及从如今担忧人类生存的学术先驱那里汲取灵感，例如诺贝尔奖得主杰弗里·辛顿。本书揭示了一位独特人物及其公司的全貌，并深刻反思了这个瞬息万变的领域如何从边缘跃升至我们意识的中心。

没有人质疑哈萨比斯的才华。有些人，比如埃隆·马斯克，有时甚至把他视为“邪恶的天才”。他身处一个风险极高的游戏，而与之相匹配的代价也同样高昂——无论是人才还是计算资源。一些杰出的科学家投身于这项技术，是因为他们无法抗拒发现的喜悦。而另一些人则是为了金钱或权力而追求它。发明家们自认为掌控着自己的技术，但往往是技术反过来掌控了他们。

尽管哈萨比斯在谷歌的核心团队中扮演着举足轻重的角色，但这并非硅谷的故事。哈萨比斯与硅谷人士打交道，也接受他们的投资，但他始终置身事外，并对其持强烈的批判态度，在与马拉比的对话中，他猛烈抨击了硅谷的领导。这场竞赛的结果尚不可知，但正如这本伟大的著作所揭示的，哈萨比斯致力于将一种全新的认知方式带入世界的探索，堪称我们这个时代的标志性故事。

From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company

Even by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case. Born poor in North London to immigrant parents, a chess prodigy by age five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven figure offer before turning 18 to feed his insatiable scientific curiosity at Cambridge. Later, he added a neuroscience PhD to his computer science skills to pursue the dream of artificial general intelligence, the ultimate goal being to unravel the mysteries of biology and theoretical physics and to usher in super-abundance. Alongside a small group of fellow travelers, that is the path he is still on, leading the AI research at Google, winning a Nobel Prize along the way, and imagining machines that will compound, or possibly supplant, the human understanding of the universe.

Hassabis has given Sebastian Mallaby a great deal of his time, sitting for over thirty hours of conversation. But Mallaby has also drawn from Hassabis's detractors, such as his estranged cofounder Mustafa Suleyman; from his rivals, such as OpenAI's leading scientist Ilya Sutskever; and from academic pioneers who now fear for human survival, such as Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton. The result is a revelatory account of a singular figure and his company and a profound reckoning with this protean field as it leaps from the periphery to the center of our consciousness.

No one questions Hassabis’s brilliance. There are those who, like Elon Musk, have at times regarded him as an "evil genius." He is in a game where the stakes are matched only by the exorbitant costs — for talent, and for compute. Celebrated scientists pursue the technology because they cannot resist the sweetness of discovery. Others pursue it for money or power. The inventors believe they control their technology, but often, the technology controls them.

Despite Hassabis’s pivotal role inside Google’s engine room, this is not a Silicon Valley story. Hassabis deals with the Valley and takes its money, but remains outside and furiously critical of it, lambasting its leaders in conversation with Mallaby. The end of this race cannot be known, but as this great book shows us, Hassabis's quest to will a new form of cognition into the world is a defining story for our era.

作者简介

塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比著有多部作品，其中包括畅销书《比上帝更有钱》。他曾任《金融时报》特约编辑，并两次入围普利策奖决赛。马拉比现任美国外交关系委员会保罗·沃尔克国际经济高级研究员。

Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books including the bestselling More Money Than God. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.