Machines Like Me

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Verfasser:
McEwan, Ian

Verfasser Angabe:
Ian McEwan

Sprache:
Englisch

• Humanität
• Künstliche Intelligenz
• Utopie
• Liebe

Verlag:
Jonathan Cape

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2019

Umfang:
305 S.

ISBN:
978-1-7873-3167-9

Inhalt:
Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London, where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human, our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.

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