TY  - BOOK
AU  - McEwan,Ian
TI  - Machines like me: and people like you 
SN  - 9781787331662
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Personality
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
N2  - Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control
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