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The Maniac
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
| Author:
BenjamÃn Labatut
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Author:
BenjamÃn Labatut
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
₹599 ₹479
Save: 20%
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Category Internet & Social Media
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the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI ‘Monstrously good… Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller’ Mark Haddon In a scintillating mix of fact and fiction, The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. At its core is John von Neumann, a titan of science who revolutionised fields from game theory to computer systems and helped develop the atomic bomb. As illness unmoored his mind, his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control. With dazzling mastery, BenjamÃn Labatut weaves von Neumann’s story together with the crises in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and humanity’s showdown with artificial intelligence a hundred years later. Innovative and disquieting, this book plunges us into the most profound questions of humanity, where reason teeters on the brink of chaos.
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the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI ‘Monstrously good… Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller’ Mark Haddon In a scintillating mix of fact and fiction, The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. At its core is John von Neumann, a titan of science who revolutionised fields from game theory to computer systems and helped develop the atomic bomb. As illness unmoored his mind, his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control. With dazzling mastery, BenjamÃn Labatut weaves von Neumann’s story together with the crises in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and humanity’s showdown with artificial intelligence a hundred years later. Innovative and disquieting, this book plunges us into the most profound questions of humanity, where reason teeters on the brink of chaos.
About Author
Benjamin Labatut is a Chilean author born in the Netherlands in 1980. He was raised in The Hague before settling in Chile, where he lives and works. His book When We Cease to Understand the World has been translated into over thirty languages: it was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, selected for Barack Obama's Summer Reading List and named a Guardian, New York Times and New Statesman Book of the Year. The MANIAC is Labatut's first book written in English. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile.
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