Stepping outside of our campus concerns to imagine a better higher ed AI future.
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby
Published in March 2026
Universities are living through the age of half-crappy AI. Reading The Infinity Machine is a data point in support of the idea that this age will end sooner than we might think.
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