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Brian Christian’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and many literary and scientific publications. He has been featured on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” NPR’s “Radiolab,” and “The Charlie Rose Show,” and has lectured at Google, Microsoft, the London School of Economics, and elsewhere. An award-winning poet, Christian holds a degree in philosophy and computer science from Brown University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. The Most Human Human, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, has been translated into nine languages. Christian lives in Philadelphia.

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The Most Human Human
What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
Written by Brian Christian

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00

Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing... Read more >

The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $27.95

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

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The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Written by Brian Christian

Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99

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