The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

A work of fiction based on real events and real people, an incredible book that will fascinate and terrify in equal measure.

Centres around John von Neumann who revolutionised many fields including game theory, computers, helped build the atomic bomb and laid out the foundations for AI. It then takes you to the machine V human battle with AlphaGo and then the frightening creation of AlphaZero. Highly recommended.