With improvements over time…we’ll surpass you…and outlast you…even as we love you. 3,189 reviews Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.The title is taken from Adam's 'dying' words: 'It’s about machines like me and people like you and our future together…the sadness that’s to come. 'They couldn’t understand us, because we couldn’t understand ourselves.' The question is this: do we really know what we are looking for when we create another being? AI is the mirror that reveals who we truly are. 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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