Top 6 Quotes by Brian Christian

Existence without essence is very stressful.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

Essence, Stressful, Existence

"The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

Brian Christian

Intelligent, Views, People

"The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2011.

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

Brian Christian

Needs, Inquiry, Want

"The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Brian Christian

Tests, Failing, Construction

The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

Brian Christian

Writing, Fighting, Swimming

"The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.