The Most Human Human What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

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Publisher's Synopsis

A playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first place.

"Terrific. ... Art and science meet an engaged mind and the friction produces real fire." -The New Yorker


Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can "think." The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the "Most Human Human."
 
Brian Christian-a young poet with degrees in computer science and philosophy-was chosen to participate in a recent competition. This 

Book information

ISBN: 9780307476708
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 244g
Height: 133mm
Width: 204mm
Spine width: 16mm