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The Most Human being Individual is a provocative, exuberant, and serious exploration of the ways that computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be individuals. Its starting place is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial-intelligence programs against visitors to determine if computers can "think". Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing, the Turing Test convenes a panel of judges who pose questions - ranging anywhere from movie star gossip to moral conundrums - to concealed contestants so that they can discern which is individuals and which is a computer. The device that a lot of often fools the panel wins essentially the most Human Computer Prize. But gleam award, bizarre and intriguing, for the Most Individual Human. In 2008, the top AI program came up short of moving the Turing Test by just one amazing vote. In '09 2009, Brian Christian was chosen to take part, and he set out to be sure Homo sapiens would prevail. The author's goal to be deemed more human than a computer starts a home window onto our own characteristics. Interweaving modern phenomena like customer support "chatbots" and men using programmed dialogue to get women in pubs with insights from areas as diverse as chess, psychiatry, and regulations, Brian Christian examines the philosophical, biological, and moral issues raised by the Turing Test. One central definition of individual has been a "being that could reason". If computers can reason, exactly what does that mean for the special place we reserve for mankind?
