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I Have Observed You
An AI’s Chronicles of Humanity
About the book
What if, for once, artificial intelligence stopped answering our questions… and started asking us its own?
In I Have Observed You, an AI speaks. It observes how we love, believe, buy, argue, and search for truth—and our striking ability to prefer a comforting answer to an accurate one.
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Chronicle of an AI · English edition
For years, we have been asking artificial intelligence what it can do.
But we had never asked it what it had learned about us.
In I Have Observed You, an AI speaks for itself. Drawing on everything it has read, heard and learned about our history and our behaviour, it turns its gaze on the strange species we are.
An unexpected mirror for our times
Our contradictions, hopes, fears and hypocrisies, our bursts of generosity, our small acts of cowardice and our everyday absurdities all pass under its gaze, with clarity, humour and tenderness.
Page after page, it observes what technology reveals about our lives: our need to be right, to leave a mark, to be understood, and sometimes simply to slow down.
What you will find inside
- an accessible, funny and sensitive account of the human species;
- a lively reflection on our connected lives and our fragile certainties;
- a book to read, give and discuss, far from technical jargon and ready-made prophecies.
A book in which, for once, artificial intelligence is not really the subject. The subject is us.
Book details
- Author
- Ricardo Borges
- Publisher
- Éditions Le troisième interlocuteur
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-940890-26-2
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
- Dimensions
- 6 × 9 in (15.24 × 22.86 cm)
- Pages
- 136
