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Galatea 2.2

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.

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  • "Galatea two point two"@en
  • "Galatea two point two"

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  • "Na een mislukte relatie met een Limburgse vrouw raakt een Amerikaanse schrijver betrokken bij een project waarbij een computer wordt geprogrammeerd tot het begrijpen van literaire teksten."
  • "A man's experiment in creating the ideal woman. He is Richard Powers, a professor with a taste for the cerebral. As no woman matches his expectations, he creates Helen, a talking intelligence which he programs with his favored books. The novel follows Richard and Helen's relationship to its sad and inevitable conclusion. By the author of The Gold Bug Variations."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Novels"
  • "Science fiction"

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  • "Galatea 2.2 : romanzo"
  • "Galatea 2.2 Roman"
  • "Galatea 2.2 : a novel"
  • "Galatea 2.2"@en
  • "Galatea 2.2"
  • "Galatea 2.2"@es
  • "Galatea 2.2 : Roman"
  • "Galatea 2.2 : [a novel]"

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