MANIAC
- Format
- E-bog, ePub
- Engelsk
Normalpris
Medlemspris
Beskrivelse
From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AIJohnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power. As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction.In The MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason.
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Udgivelsesdato07-09-2023
- ISBN139781782279839
- Forlag Pushkin Press
- FormatePub
Anmeldelser
Mikkel Præstholm H 15/09/2024
Vildeste historie jeg længe har læst.
robert.groenlund 07/04/2024
Labatut fortæller en aktuel og interessant historie om den intellektuelle baggrund for udviklingen af kunstig intelligens. Han fokuserer på stof, han tidligere har skrevet om og misser derfor et par vægtige bidragydere, men det er ok, når bogen ikke skal blive for lang. Det er til gengæld ikke ok at slutte bogen med meget definitivt at erklære, at alt den foregående tekst er fiktion. Siger Labatut dermed, han han har digtet hele fortællingen? Det giver ingen mening og skæmmer bogen.
Erik B 22/03/2024
Fascinerende læsning om store hjerner. Og givetvis skrevet af en forfatter med stor hjerne. Skrevet lysende klart.