The Most Human Human

By Brian Christian,

Book cover of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Book description

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


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1 author picked The Most Human Human as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an entertaining and lighter read than my other recommendations about AI. It is specifically about chatbots trying to pass the Turing Test, and ultimately is a witty story of what it means to be human. For anyone who has ever mistaken an answerphone for a person, or a person for an answerphone!

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