The Most Human Human

What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive

von Brian Christian

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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 YorkerEach 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 

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Kognitive Psychologie
• ISBN: 9780307476708
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2012
• Größe: 203 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group