The Maniac
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The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and 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, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 354 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593654477
0593654471
SUBJECTS
Von Neumann, John, -- 1903-1957 -- Fiction.
Mathematicians -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.