The Most Human Human

Tremendously entertaining ****

Metro

Excellent ... a fascinating explanation of what it means to be human

Financial Times

Remarkable. A philosophical joyride. The day that a machine creates work of such wit and originality, we should all be very worried

The Times

An epic tour of philosophical, linguistic and scientific discovery. We stop off in places as far-flung as existential anxiety, predictive text and Gary Kasparov's defeat by Deep Blue. A lively, personable read and an overpowering affirmation of our species ****

Time Out

Lively, thought-stirring, entertaining, invaluable ... compelling insights

John Gray, New Statesman

Dense with ideas, terrific. One of the rare successful literary offspring of Gödel, Escher, Bach, where art and science meet an engaged mind and the friction produces real fire

New Yorker

Fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning ... investigates the nature of human interactions, the meaning of language, and the essence of what sets us apart from machines ... fabulous

Publishers Weekly

An irreverent picaresque ... What Christian learns along the way is that if machines win the imitation game as often as they do, it's not because they're getting better at acting human; it's because we're getting worse ... An authentic son of Frost, he learns by going where he has to go, and in doing so proves that both he and his book deserve their title

The New York Times

Immensely ambitious and bold, intellectually provocative, while at the same time entertaining and witty - a delightful book about how to live a meaningful, thriving life

Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams

Such an important book ... Brian Christian takes on this very weighty task, and somehow makes it fun

Brian Shenk, author of The Genius in all of Us

An eye-opening inquest into human imagination, thought, conversation, love and deception

David Eagleman, author of Sum

Absorbing ... Christian cleverly suggests that the Turing Test not only tells us how smart computers are but also teaches us about ourselves. ... covers a great deal of ground with admirable clarity but with a lightness of touch ... has a real knack for summing up key ideas by applying them to real-life situations

Julian Baggini, Wall Street Journal

Strange, fertile and sometimes beautiful ... takes both the deep limitations and halting progress of artificial intelligence as an occasion for thinking about the most human activity

Matthew Crawford, author of The Case for Working with Your Hands

Entertaining and informative

Economist