What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions

Thomas, Iain S.; Wang, Jasmine; GPT-3

ISBN 10: 1649630174 / ISBN 13: 9781649630179

Published by Sounds True, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1649630174
• ISBN 13: 9781649630179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

A groundbreaking endeavor to explore human spirituality through the evolving technology of artificial intelligence

Why are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Is happiness truly possible?
 
For thousands of years, we have turned to the same beloved texts to explore these universal questions―from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to the words of modern-day mystics.
 
What if you could take all of the wisdom contained in these collective pages and, using the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, receive the answers? 
 
To create What Makes Us Human?, internationally bestselling poet Iain S. Thomas and globally recognized prodigious researcher and innovator Jasmine Wang prompted the world’s most advanced AI, GPT-3, with a wealth of humanity’s most cherished works. Then they asked GPT-3 our most pressing questions about life.
 
Contained in this book are the conversations and exchanges that followed.
 
A bold and daring experiment, What Makes Us Human? is a contemporary exploration of spirituality that will inspire you, move you, and give you a new understanding of what makes us humans, humans.

About the Author

Jasmine Wang is a technologist and philosopher and is a 2020 Thiel Fellow and 2019 Interact Fellow. She has worked with the Partnership on AI, the Future of Humanity Institute, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. She lives in New York.