Sunday, March 20, 2011

Reading - "THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive" - Brian Christian

Picked up "The Most Human Human" by Brian Christian, sight unseen.  I've always been interested in the limits and current status of computer "intelligence", particularly in the wake of the Deep Blue defeat of Kasparov in chess, one of the supposedly final limits in computer thinking ability.

This book uses the Turing Test contest (annual challenge using human judges to adjudicate whether they are communicating with a real person or a computer in a text-based discussion) to delve into philosophy, problem solving and generally exploring what it means to have experience and be human.

Hits right on the mark for what I'm interested in exploring at this point in my life.

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