Galatea 2.2
Powers, Richard, 1957-2019
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After years of living abroad, a young writer, Richard, returns to the United States to take up the position of Humanist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he encounters Philip Lentz, a brilliant and outspoken cognitive neurologist who involves him in an outlandish and irresistible experiment: to train a neural net of computers - Helen - to model the human brain through reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until she demands to know her own age, sex, race and reason for existing.
Main title:
Galatea 2.2 / Richard Powers.
Author:
Powers, Richard, 1957-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2019.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781784709716 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3566.O92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2603599
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