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	We Need Madmen 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Chicken Farmer's Thoughts on Love it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	apostrophe combe Mk 2 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Is AI about to exterminate not us, but itself?
Taking just one example, the receiving of emails/texts/ or any other electronic message; the first question one now asks, is it from a human or from a bot? Although the email might be 'signed' by what appears to be a person, is that a real person?
One does a web search, and such a person does appear to exist. Or is this a bot pretending to be them? Sam Read more of this blog post »

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Maggie O'Farrell as usual delivers exceptional descriptive writing. Can't fault her there. But the back and forth time line had me really confused, and switching characters with time lines as well, didn't make for easy reading. Especially as, living ...more
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I suspect that this may not have been an easy text to translate. But whimsical if a bit clunky and repetitive. Sub-Murakami.
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