Follows the lives of Ana Alvarado and Derek Brooks as they create and relate to the artificial intelligences they helped design.
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What’s the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, “Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried.” The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It’s a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it’s an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.
Book by Ted Chiang
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Condizione: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Second Printing; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; White dust jacket with title in black lettering; 2010, Subterranean Press; 150 pages; "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," by Ted Chiang. Codice articolo SKU-1118AJ06908314
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Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 150 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Maps. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Codice articolo Alibris.0017020
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Da: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 150 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Maps. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket in mylar. 1st/1st. Signed and dated by author. This copy is not numbered. Codice articolo Alibris.0015545
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Limited Edition. SOLD OUT a very long time ago. And no wonder. This is a beautiful small press production of a great novel. Signed and numbered FIRST EDITION in a decorated cloth binding, issued without a jacket. Much sought after, needless to say, and here is a perfect as new unread copy, stored in a smoke free bookstore since publication. Language: eng. Signed by Author. Codice articolo ABE-1514364367113
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