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nBeautifully written...a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them. - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureaten nA must-read for anyone fascinated by the past, present, and future of AI - ChatGPTn nIn the year 1600, a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things.n n350 years later, having witnessed Trinity - the first test of the atomic bomb - Americas leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth.n n25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this machine for augmenting human intellect, dazzling as he stands Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands.n nIn this profound and urgent new book, leading thinker on technology Kester Brewin shows how AI is both stunningly new and rooted in the most ancient human desires. Hailed by the UK governments own lead on AI as god-like, as we finally welcome this stunning technology amongst us - with Frankenstein and Faustus, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the underbelly of Silicon Valley - Brewin skillfully leads us through the myths, machines and monsters that have influenced the development of our greatest and most longed-for invention, and how we can learn to live alongside it.n n nn nPraise for MIDDLE CLASS: n nHugely accomplished - Lucy Morris, Curtis Brownn nAn exceptionally talented writer - Emma Finn, Conville and Walshn n nn nPraise for GETTING HIGH: n nFascinating...revelatory - Andrew Smith, author of MOONDUST and TOTALLY WIRED.n nBeautiful - Professor Simon Critchley, author of BOWIE and INFINITELY DEMANDINGn nHonest, absorbing, clear-eyed and compelling - Erik Davis, author of TECHGNOSIS and NOMAD CODESn n nn nPraise for MUTINY: n nStartlingly original, subtle and substantive, written in a prose that is as lyrical as it is lucid - Third Way Magazinen nBrilliantly riffs and mashes across literary genres - Simon Nashn nA stimulating, entertaining, and ultimately profound meditation on what pirates can teach us about living in the real world - Dr Gladys Ganieln
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