Great review of Ian McEwan's "Machines Like Me" "[W]e worry not just what robots might do to us but what we might do to them, to say nothing of what they might do to us because of what we already do to one another"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/man-woman-and-robot-in-ian-mcewans-new-novel …
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Have you read it? Looks great (cc
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Out next Tuesday on Kindle...pre-ordered it. I especially like the idea of "resurrecting" Turing in an alternate history of the 1980's (giving the author a great conduit for commenting on AI and man's inhumanity to man/machine)
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@hatchards will ship a signed copy! Won’t arrive as fast as amazon but worth the wait :) and you can borrow mine while you wait.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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