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Jeanette Winterson
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Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson.
“Talky, smart, anarchic, and quite sexy,” said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, Frankissstein, which perfectly describes too this new collection of essays on the same subject of AI.
In 12 Bytes, the New York Times best-selling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson draws on her years of thinking and reading about artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In her brilliant, laser focused, uniquely pointed, and witty style of storytelling, Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.
When we create nonbiological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with nonhuman helpers, teachers, sex-workers, and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions about gender? Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it time to join Elon Musk and leave planet Earth?
With wit, compassion, and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI’s most fascinating talking points, from the algorithms that data-dossier your whole life to the weirdness of backing up your brain.
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- Amy Jupiter
- 12-04-23
ms. Winterson is so smart and her language and sense of humor shines through in her reading of her work.
I loved every thing about this book. It’s scary but so thoughtful and optimistic and all about love.
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- olivia glass
- 01-25-22
Absolute intelligent inquisitive humble reveal!!
I am awe inspired. reverenced and compelled to reach deep within and renew mindfulness!!
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- Brenda C. Lee
- 01-07-23
A M A Z I N G !! I listened to it TWICE
So insightful, so linking history to where we are today & tomorrow.. Please DON’T miss it!!!!
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- Midoriya
- 11-19-22
Meh
She had some good points but a lot of it was just whiny and unreasonable.
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- D. J. Mullins
- 06-10-23
Brilliant
A feminist few of history and the AI world that is either coming to get us or joining us to brave the future. It is read beautifully and I am at least a little bit in love.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-03-24
Bait and Switch
I am now 4 hours into a 9 hour book and we have not talked about AI. If you are here to read a book about AI how it may functionin our live. How it may or may not shape the future. etc. This is not the book for you. This far I've heard about how badly woman have been treated throughout history. Britain in the industrial revolution and general political around capitalism. it's perfectly fine for what it is, but what it is not is 12 well written essays on AI.
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