The MANIAC
eBook - ePub

The MANIAC

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The MANIAC

About this book

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 AI

Johnny 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, Benjamín 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. PAUL or The Discovery of the Irrational
  6. JOHN or The Mad Dreams of Reason
  7. PART I: The Limits of Logic
  8. PART II: The Delicate Balance of Terror
  9. PART III: Ghosts in the Machine
  10. LEE or The Delusions of Artificial Intelligence
  11. Epilogue: The God of Go
  12. Also by Benjamín Labatut
  13. Copyright

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