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  Book Title: The Most
Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive	 	
  Book Author:
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be
Alive
   Hardcover: 320 pages(The number of pages varies from a format to
format)
   Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (March 1, 2011)
   Language: English
  
ISBN-10: 9780385533065
   ISBN-13: 978-0385533065
   ASIN: 0385533063
  
  Book Description
  Release date: March 1, 2011 | ISBN-10:
9780385533065 | ISBN-13: 978-0385533065 | Edition: First Edition
  The Most Human Human is a provocative,
exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human.
Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if
computers can “think.”
  Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing, the Tur­ing Test convenes a panel
of judges who pose questions—ranging anywhere from celebrity gossip to moral conundrums—to hidden
contestants in an attempt to discern which is human and which is a computer. The machine that most often fools the panel
wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, bizarre and intriguing, for the Most Human Human.
 
In 2008, the top AI program came short of passing the Turing Test by just one astonishing vote. In 2009, Brian Christian
was chosen to participate, and he set out to make sure Homo sapiens would prevail.
  The author’s quest to
be deemed more human than a com­puter opens a window onto our own nature. Interweaving modern phenomena like customer
service “chatbots” and men using programmed dialogue to pick up women in bars with insights from fields as
diverse as chess, psychiatry, and the law, Brian Christian examines the philosophical, bio­logical, and moral issues
raised by the Turing Test.
  One central definition of human has been “a being that could reason.” If
computers can reason, what does that mean for the special place we reserve for humanity?
  
  Editorial Reviews
  From Publishers Weekly
  Starred Review. In a fast-paced,
witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in which
judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with unidentified partners, and must then decide whether each
interlocutor was a human or a machine. The program receiving the most "human" votes is dubbed the "most human computer,"
while the person receiving the most votes earns the title of "most human human." Poet and science writer Christian sets
out to win the latter title and through his quest, investigates the nature of human interactions, the meaning of
language, and the essence of what sets us apart from machines that can process information far faster than we can.
Ranging from philosophy through the construction of pickup lines to poetry, Christian examines what it means to be human
and how we interact with one another, and with computers as equals—via automated telephone menus and within the
medical establishment, for example. This fabulous book demonstrates that we are capable of experiencing and sharing far
deeper thoughts than even the best computers—and that too often we fail to achieve the highest level of
humanness. (Mar.)(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
  
  From
Booklist
  *Starred Review* Each year humans and computers square off for the Turing test, which
Christian describes as a kind of speed dating via instant messaging, with five minutes to prove which is human. In 2009,
Christian traveled to Brighton, England, to compete in a contest matching four humans and four computers. Christian
chronicles his preparation and time spent devising strategies to trump the chatbot computers that can imitate humans.
Along the way, he draws on philosophy, neurology, linguistics, and computer science, recalling chess master Garry
Kasparov losing a match to IBM�s Deep Blue computer and more recent developments in artificial intelligence. He
explores how computers have challenged our bias toward the left hemisphere of the brain (logic) versus the right
hemisphere (emotions) and how he and others have come to a deeper appreciation of emotional intelligence. He laments how
so many jobs have trained employees with limited scripts that render them human chatbots. Christian intersperses
interviews and musings on poetry and literature, observations on computer science, and excerpts from post-Turing test
conversations for a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human. This book will surely change the way readers
think about their conversations. --Vanessa Bush
  
  Reviews
  "Illuminating.....an irreverent picaresque that follows its hero from
the recondite arena of the 'Nicomachean Ethics' to the even more recondite arena of legal depositions to perhaps the
most recondite arena of all, that of speed dating.....As THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN demonstrates, Christian has taken his own
words to heart. An authentic son of Frost, he learns by going here he has to go, and in doing so proves that both he and
his book deserve their title."--New York Times Book Review
  
 
"Terrific.....one of the rare successful literary offspring of Gödel, Escher, Bach, where art and science meet an
engaged mind and the friction produces real fire......dense with ideas"--The New
Yorker
  
  "Absorbing.....Mr. Christian cleverly suggests that the Turing Test not only tells us
how smart computers are but also teaches us about ourselves....Mr. Christian covers a great deal of ground with
admirable clarity but with a lightness of touch, and he never tries too hard. He also has a real knack for summing up
key ideas by applying them to real-life situations....Following Mr. Christian's advice, we should not see this victory
as a threat but as a chance to learn even more about who we are. Every technology that seems to dehumanize us is an
opportunity to rehumanize ourselves"--The Wall Street Journal
  
 
"Questions about what computers are doing to our minds lie at the heart of.....[this] charming, friendly, and often
funny read."--The Boston Globe
  
  "[A] curious look into the history
and potential of artificial intelligence, and a brilliant comparison between artificial intelligence and our natural
variety. Christian may have won a prize demonstrating his humanness, but confirms his victory in this humane, humorous
and thought-provoking book.....Christian wants to call attention to how special we are, and his book is a succes"--Columbus Dispatch
  
  "A fascinating exploration of what it means to be
human. This book will surely change the way readers think about their conversations."--Booklist, starred review
  
  "A heady exploration of the intersection of
artificial intelligence (AI) and human nature. Christian's examination of the way machines are forcing us to appreciate
what it means to be human leads him to explore everything from poetry, chess and existentialism…[and] offers an
overview of the history of AI."
  -- Kirkus Reviews
  
 
"Exhilarating....it does make you think. Reading it, I constantly found my mind pinging off of whatever Christian was
discussing and into flights of exploratory speculation about the amount of information encoded in the seemingly routine
exchanges of small talk or the reasons why it's much harder to tell a false story in reverse chronological order. It's
an unusual book whose primary gift lies in distracting you from itself. I'd like to see the computers come up with
something like that."--Salon
  
  "This is a strange, fertile, and
sometimes beautiful book. It has been said that man creates images of himself, then comes to resemble the images.
Something like this seems to be going on with the computer. Brian Christian writes with a rare combination of what
Pascal took to be two contrary mindsets: the spirit of geometry and the spirit of finesse. He takes both the deep
limitations and halting progress of artificial intelligence as an occasion for thinking about the most human
activity—the art of conversation."
  --Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class
as Soulcraft
  
  "This is such an important book, a book I've been waiting and hoping for.
Machines are getting so smart that it forces us to take a completely fresh look at what smart is, and at what human is.
Brian Christian takes on this very weighty task, and somehow makes it fun. Christian is nimble, insightful, and humble
-- a very human human, indeed, and one you will like very much."
  - David Shenk, author
of The Forgetting, The Immortal Game, and The Genius in All of Us 
   
  "THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN is
immensely ambitious and bold, intellectually provocative, while at the same time entertaining and witty – a
delightful book about how to live a meaningful, thriving life."
  --Alan Lightman,
author of Einstein’s Dreams and Ghost
  
  "A book exploring the wild frontiers of chat-bots
is appealing enough; I never expected to discover in its pages such an eye-opening inquest into human imagination,
thought, conversation, love and deception. Who would have guessed that the best way to understand humanity was to study
its imitators?"
  --David Eagleman, author of Sum and Why The Net Matters
  
  About the Author
  BRIAN
CHRISTIAN holds a dual degree from Brown University in computer science and philosophy, and an MFA in poetry.
His work has appeared in both literary and scientific journals.  						

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