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A working theory of love / Scott Hutchins.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.U84 W67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutchins, Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial intelligence--Fiction.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Divorced men--Fiction.
- Divorced men.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : The Penguin Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- When Neill's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in business marketing and absolutely no experience in computer science. He has spent the last two years inputting the diaries into what everyone hopes will become the world's first sentient computer. Essentially, he has been giving it language--using his father's words. Alarming to Neill--if not to the other employees of Amiante--the experiment seems to be working. The computer actually appears to be gaining awareness and, most disconcerting of all, has started asking questions about Neill's childhood.
- ISBN:
- 9781594205057
- 1594205051
- OCLC:
- 780480369
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