12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next - Jeanette Winterson

Category: Computer
Language: English
Keywords: AI AI Revolution Artificial Intelligence Computers & Technology Digital Ethics Digital Futures Digital Transformation Ethics Euclidian Philosophy Futurism Futurist Gender Studies Golden Mean Literature & Fiction Machine Learning Machine Theory Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence ML Philosophy Queer Theory Radical Changes Tech Ethics Technology Driven Transformation Women In Computing

Written by Jeanette Winterson
Read by Jeanette Winterson
Format: MP3
Unabridged

A ‘Books of 2021′ pick in the Guardian, Financial Times and Evening Standard.

Times, audiobook of the week

“What makes this audiobook essential listening is not just its content (a mix of enthusiasm and castigation), but the electricity of Winterson’s narration.”
- Times

Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson.

In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson traces the history of the AI revolution. She talks to some of the boldest and most imaginative thinkers in the field and looks to religion, myth and literature to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are just around the corner.

When we create non-human life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image?

What do love, caring and attachment look like with a non-biological life form? And what happens to the gender binary?

What will happen when our destiny is not contained by physical bodies, and our destination is not planet Earth?

With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI’s most urgent talking points, and asks listeners to consider their role in imagining a more just and equal future.