![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Rubbo is the managing director of Readings. Machines Like Me is funny, challenging and, at times, weird and confronting. No doubt there are people working now on creating machines like Adam what remains to be seen is how we will relate to them, and how they, in turn, will relate to us. In essence he becomes a living, autonomous and independent, thinking being. He also falls in love with Miranda, successfully takes over Charlie’s day-trading and grapples with complex ethical problems. ![]() When Adam comes to life, he is caring, sensitive and protective. Charlie invites her to share in setting up Adam’s personality. Charlie is in love with Miranda, who shares an interest in AI and lives in the flat above. With the aid of an inheritance, Charlie, a barely successful day-trader, purchases an ‘Adam’. From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonementa sharply intelligent novel of ideas (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. A small tech company has used these to create a small batch of highly sophisticated (and expensive) life-like robots. Alan Turing, the great scientist, is also still alive and has developed his theories of artificial intelligence into sophisticated open-source programs. Britain has lost the Falklands War and driverless cars are the norm. In Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan imagines a world in the past that is also the future. ![]()
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