12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thoughtful writing that approaches the rise of AI from a take-no-prisoners feminist angle. Winterson deftly weaves a history of artificial intelligence that intertwines religious belief, scientific breakthroughs, and the stories that have been told and refashioned about both across the centuries. At the very core of the human imagination are the questions ‘What am I? What is a mind? What is power? What is a person? What is a god?’ This book approaches all of that with clear eyes, and reads like a bell tolling for us simple, embodied human beings.
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