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The Lifecycle of Software Objects

  • 150 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 2 editions

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1 About this book

The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.

Good for readers who want: artificial intelligence and a short read.

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Artificial life
  • Novelle

2 About Ted Chiang

Born 1967

Ted Chiang (Chinese: 姜峯楠; pinyin: Jiāng Fēngnán; born 1967) is an American science fiction writer, whose work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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