In a fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian
documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in
which judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with
unidentified partners, and must then decide whether each interlocutor
was a human or a machine. The program receiving the most "human" votes
is dubbed the "most human computer," while the person receiving the
most votes earns the title of "most human human." Poet and science
writer Christian sets out to win the latter title and through his
quest, investigates the nature of human interactions, the meaning of
language, and the essence of what sets us apart from machines that can
process information far faster than we can. Ranging from philosophy
through the construction of pickup lines to poetry, Christian examines
what it means to be human and how we interact with one another, and
with computers as equals.via automated telephone menus and within the
medical establishment, for example. This fabulous book demonstrates
that we are capable of experiencing and sharing far deeper thoughts
than even the best computers.and that too often we fail to achieve
the highest level of humanness

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