![]() ![]() What the author cares most is the moral complexity and ambiguity in our world. However, the author's focus is not intelligence, although Adam does make Charlie a lot of money (for a while). There is some lengthy discussion on artificial intelligence. Adam and Charlie's world is as chaotic as ours. ![]() Adam develops his own personality, loves haiku and Shakespeare, falls in love with Charlie's girlfriend, and ruminates on self and the meaning of life. ![]() ![]() He spends his inheritance on the latest model of AI, Adam. Charlie is a drifter, surviving by making minimum money in the stock market. In the alternative universe, Alan Turing lives and because of him, by the time of the 80s, the computer science has achieved more than what we have achieved today. I think the author chose this timeline instead of near future, so he could feature Alan Turing. The story is set in an alternative 80's London. Don't listen to Ian McEwan-he may claim he has no time for "conventional" science fiction, but Machines Like Me is a science fiction nevertheless. This is the last haiku Adam, the AI in Machines Like Me, wrote. ![]()
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