Maniac
Publication details: London: Pushkin Press, 2023.Description: 354p.: ill.: pbk: 23cmISBN:- 9781805330677
- 823.92 LAB
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | IIT Gandhinagar | General | 823.92 LAB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 034184 |
The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych about the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. It begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and close friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master, Lee Sedol, and the AI program AlphaGo.
Braiding fact with fiction, Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey to the frontiers of rational thought, where invention outpaces human understanding and offers godlike power, but takes us to the brink of Armageddon.
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