Galatea 2.2 / Richard Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Richard, 1957-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Study and teaching--Fiction.

English literature.

Artificial intelligence--Fiction.

Artificial intelligence.

English literature--Study and teaching.

Novelists--Fiction.

Novelists.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Other Title:

Galatea two point two

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2004.

Summary:

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of " Galatea 2.2" - 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.

ISBN:

0312423136

9780312423131

OCLC:

55050801