LONDON — Ian McEwan is fascinated by artificial intelligence. His new novel, “Machines Like Me,” features a lifelike android with access to all human knowledge who writes haiku poetry. In the novel, Adam is a moral paragon. After the war, Turing was prosecuted for having sex with a man, forcibly treated with female hormones and died aged 41 in 1954. McEwan says the leaps in artificial intelligence that are surely coming fill him with “fascination and dread.”“Even technologies that we fear, we can’t collectively stop ourselves,” he said.

Source: National Post April 23, 2019 16:41 UTC