by Benjamín Labatut
- Author(s)
- Benjamín Labatut
- Publication
- London : Pushkin, 2023
- Scope
- 357 Pages, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781805330677
A dizzying, kaleidoscopic novel about the destructive chaos that lurks in the history of computers and AI via the fictional biography of the enigma Johnny von Neuman. As a young man he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakable foundations of mathematics. As he designed inscrutable computer systems, helping to develop the atomic bomb, his work increasingly moved into areas beyond human understanding and control. In The MANIAC, Benjamín Labatut interweaves fact with fiction in a mind-boggling story about the mad dreams of reason. The story goes back to the early twentieth century conflict over contradictions in physics and to advances in forms of artificial intelligence that surpass humans.
- Keywords
- digitization , artificial intelligence , post humanism
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Technologie + Posthumanisme
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