The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive

By Brian Christian

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307476707
• ISBN13: 9780307476708
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"