– The morality of decisions taken by machines on the example of self driving cars.
– Whether a certain “personality” can really be implanted into robotics or whether it’s just a myth such as parents trying to “build” the personalities of their children during their upbringing If I were to explain why I enjoyed the book, it wouldn’t be because of the story itself, but rather because of topics like the following, that were brought to the table & made you want to dig deeper, get more details on each of the ideas: Nothing worth putting deeper thought into appeared before or afterwards, making it rather seem like just 4-5 clever ideas have been thrown into the mass of a rather mediocre story. While analysing the entirety of the book closer though, I have noticed that the peak of the story with notable quotations has been reached between the pages 80 and 150 (out of the total of 300). It still took me about 60 pages to shake off the prejudice of seeing it to be just some standard romantic kind of story, but it made it up by bringing up intriguing points & examples on the topic of artificial intelligence & the development of robotics.
Even though the story was quite simple in itself, the author did manage to build up the suspense, making you want to feverishly read on in order to find out how it ends. I was able to flash through the 300 pages of the book within just about 2 days (probably because I wanted to finish it in time for an event with the author), the story having instantly appeared appealing to me. Nevertheless, I had so after reading the book, which is definitely a good sign!! I really wanted to like this one, since I’m generally a fan of AI & I have also initially given it 4/5 stars, but while going through the review, it just didn’t wrap up to a coherent & satisfying experience and I would rate it as a bit above average, with 3/5 stars.
This is the first book I have read by Ian McEwan & it has definitely sparked my curiosity to discover more books by the author.
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