The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive Audiobook (Free)

The Most Individual Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what this means to be human. Its starting place is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial cleverness programs against visitors to determine if computers can “believe.”

Named for pc pioneer Alan Turing, the Tur­ing Test convenes a panel of judges who create questions-ranging anywhere from celebrity gossip to moral conundrums-to concealed contestants in an about ONE OF THE MOST Human Human being: What Talking with Computers Shows Us About What It Means to become Alive attempt to discern which is definitely human and which really is a pc. The machine that most often fools the -panel wins the Most Human Pc Award. But there is also a reward, bizarre and intriguing, for probably the most Human Human.

In 2008, the very best AI program emerged short of passing the Turing Check by simply one amazing vote. In 2009 2009, Brian Christian was chosen to participate, and he set out to make sure Homo sapiens would prevail.

The author’s goal to be deemed more human than a com­puter opens a windows onto our own character. Interweaving modern phenomena like customer service “chatbots” and guys using programmed dialogue to pick up women in pubs with insights from fields as varied as chess, psychiatry, and regulations, Brian Christian examines the philosophical, bio­reasonable, and moral problems raised by the Turing Test.

One central definition of human has been “a becoming that could cause.” If computers can reason, what does that mean for the particular place we reserve for mankind?