12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next / Jeanette Winterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Twelve bytes

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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 bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, draws deeper from her years of considering artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In brilliant, laser-focused, uniquely pointed, and witty 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 non-biological 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 non-human 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Zone One The Past How We Got Here. A Few Lessons From History

Love(lace) Actually

A Loom with a View

From Sci-fi to Wi-fi to My-Wi

Zone Two What's Your Superpower? How Vampires, Angels, and Energy Reimagined Matter

Gnostic Know-How

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Buddha

Coal-Fired Vampire

Zone Three Sex and Other Stories How Love, Sex, and Attachment is Likely to Change As We Share Our lives with AI

Hot for a Bot

My Bear Can Talk

Fuck the Binary

Zone Four The Future How the Future will be Different to the Past

- and How It Won't

The Future Isn't Female

Jurassic Car Park

I Love, Therefore I Am.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780802159250

0802159257

OCLC:

1269405168