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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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Année de publication
1995
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Titre
Galatea 2.2
Langue
Anglais
Éditeur
Abacus (UK)
Publié
1995
Format
souple
Pages
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>