Speak

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Speak

Fiction: general and literary Science fiction

Author: Louisa Hall

Dinosaur mascot

Language: English

Published by: Orbit

Published on: 7th July 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 445 Kb

ISBN: 9780356506081


She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?

From a pilgrim girl''s diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing''s conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and in warning.

When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human?

TRANSFIXING
New York Times

BRILLIANT
Huffington Post

INCREDIBLE
Buzzfeed

HYPNOTIC
Guardian

A MASTERPIECE
NPR

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