Galatea 2.2 - Brossura

Powers, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312423136 ISBN 13: 9780312423131

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2004

Riassunto

The protagonist, a Humanist-in-Residence at the center for Advanced Scientific Research, gets involved with a project to train a machine to pass a comprehensive exam in English literature--and with the degree candidate against whom the machine is competing. Reprint.

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L'autore

Richard Powers has been the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of eight novels, including Plowing the Dark, Gain, and Galatea 2.2. He lives in Illinois.

Product Description

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of "Galatea 2.2"--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312423136
• ISBN 13: 9780312423131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336