Full name: The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

Author: Brian Christian Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307476708 0307476707

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 playful, profound book is not only a testament to his 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. Similar books: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg Emergence by Steven Johnson The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis The Social Animal by David Brooks The Brain by David Eagleman Incognito by David Eagleman How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz Entangled Minds by Dean Radin Lying by Sam Harris How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks