Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)

Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, after its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

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The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing.Its features are slowly crystalizing:- Natively multimodal… https://t.co/2jsVevkTSJ— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) June 27, 2025

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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, …

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