{"product_id":"the-thinking-machine-stephen-witt","title":"The Thinking Machine (Stephen Witt)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe riveting, investigative account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its Artificial Intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia s charismatic, uncompromising CEO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May 2023, with the revelation that Chat GPT had trained on Nvidia s supercomputer, and twenty years after its founding in a San Jose Denny s restaurant, Nvidia became the sixth most valuable corporation on Earth. In \u003ci\u003eThe Thinking Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a company once known by hardcore gamers for PC graphics shocked Silicon Valley by building the hardware now used by all major AI applications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssential to Nvidia s meteoric success is its CEO Jensen Huang, who bet the company s future on developing scientific supercomputing and the ever-larger AI systems that are reshaping our society. Through unprecedented access to Huang, his friends and family, and Nvidia employees, Witt documents for the first time, the company s epic rise and its iconoclastic CEO, who emerges as a compelling, single-minded, and ferocious leader, and now one of Silicon Valley s most influential figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thinking Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how a neglected manufacturer of gaming hardware became the dominant supplier of AI hardware. It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who for 30 years pushed his radical vision for computing, in the process becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is about a revolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegade engineers who defied Wall Street to make it happen. And it s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, robotic tutors, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books, generated on command.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eStephen Witt is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow Music Got Free\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and McKinsey Business Book of the Year\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63399735230813,"sku":"K097343249","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/219557-9734324900001A.jpg?v=1770903057","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-thinking-machine-stephen-witt","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}