Sunday, 25 July 2021

Machines like me by Ian McEwan

A really enjoyable read. Reminded me of Galatea 2.2 but instead of an AI in a Computer here we get an AI in an Android called Adam. Like in Galatea we see more about the AI's human owner, Charlie, than we see of the AI. We meet Charlie's girlfriend who's got a dark secret. And how Charlie, his girlfriend and Adam form an unusual family, with Adam trying to learn how to be human. All this happens in an alternative 1980s Britain where Alan Turing is still alive and were mobile phones already exist.

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