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Galatea 2.2

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<div>After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of <i>Galatea 2.2</i> — Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting. </div>

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Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers

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Jaar van publicatie
1995
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Titel
Galatea 2.2
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Abacus (UK)
Jaar van publicatie
1995
Formaat
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
329
ISBN10
0349109478
ISBN13
9780349109473
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<div>After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of <i>Galatea 2.2</i> — Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting. </div>