What does it mean to be smart? This is the opening question posed in Cade Metz’s Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook and the World. Genius Makers was a page turner, a fun romp through the life of the notable men (yes, it’s almost exclusively men) behind our current AI moment and our algorithmic future. Unlike other books about artificial intelligence that focus on the technological breakthroughs in the field, Metz takes a look at the people behind