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She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?
Speak is the story of artificial intelligence and of those who loved it, hated it and created it. Spanning geography and time, the novel takes us from Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s to a Silicon Valley Wunderkind imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls. From a pilgrim girl writing her diary to a traumatised young girl exchanging messages with a software program, all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak, she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and also warning - a warning against creating and abandoning beings with the ability to feel as deeply as we do.
When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human?
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SPEAK is that rarest of finds: a novel that doesn't remind me of any other book I've ever read. A complex, nuanced, and beautifully written meditation on language, immortality, the nature of memory, the ethical problems of artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human. (Emily St. John Mandel, author of STATION ELEVEN)
Beautifully illustrates the human longing at the heart of our obsession with technology . . . a hypnotic read (Guardian)
Comes out of nowhere and hits like a thunderbolt. It's not just one of the smartest books of the year, it's one of the most beautiful ones, and it almost seems like an understatement to call it a masterpiece. (NPR)
Reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood . . . a brilliant novel (Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON)
A thumping good read. Every time I sit down with it, it makes me happy all over again (Joe Hill, author of HORNS)
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Beautifully illustrates the human longing at the heart of our obsession with technology . . . a hypnotic read (Guardian)
Comes out of nowhere and hits like a thunderbolt. It's not just one of the smartest books of the year, it's one of the most beautiful ones, and it almost seems like an understatement to call it a masterpiece. (NPR)
Reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood . . . a brilliant novel (Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON)
A thumping good read. Every time I sit down with it, it makes me happy all over again (Joe Hill, author of HORNS)
For fans of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood comes this poignant novel from Waterstones Book Club author Louisa Hall, examining the story and ethics of artificial intelligence, a tale that spans our past and future which will make readers everywhere question what it really means to be human. Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, calls Speak the 'rarest of finds'.
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- PublisherOrbit
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 035650607X
- ISBN 13 9780356506074
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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