The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
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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 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
Brian Christian
Brian Christian is the bestselling author of the acclaimed books The Most Human Human, Algorithms to Live By, and The Alignment Problem, which have been translated into nineteen languages. A researcher at the University of Oxford, he lives in San Francisco.
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