McEwan tells android tale in Machines Like MeBy JILL LAWLESSLONDON: 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 in 1954 at age 41. McEwan angered some science-fiction readers and writers by insisting that Machines Like Me is not a sci-fi book.

Source: Manila Times April 27, 2019 16:07 UTC