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What Makes Us Human

By: Jasmine Wang, Iain S. Thomas, GPT-3
Narrated by: Jasmine Wang, Ian S Thomas
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A groundbreaking endeavor to explore human spirituality through the evolving technology of artificial intelligence

Why are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Is happiness truly possible?

For thousands of years, we have turned to the same beloved texts to explore these universal questions—from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to the words of modern-day mystics.

What if you could take all of the wisdom contained in these collective pages and, using the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, receive the answers?

To create What Makes Us Human?, internationally bestselling poet Iain S. Thomas and globally recognized prodigious researcher and innovator Jasmine Wang prompted the world’s most advanced AI, GPT-3, with a wealth of humanity’s most cherished works. Then they asked GPT-3 our most pressing questions about life.

Contained in this audiobook are the conversations and exchanges that followed.

A bold and daring experiment, What Makes Us Human? is a contemporary exploration of spirituality that will inspire you, move you, and give you a new understanding of what makes us humans, humans.

©2022 Jasmine Wang, Iain S. Thomas, and GPT-3 (P)2022 Sounds True
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“This profoundly illuminating text on where we stand in the great arc of artificial intelligence is stunningly beautiful and inspired. A touching, nuanced, and beautiful reverie of poetic collaboration.”—BT, GRAMMY®-nominated musician and technologist

“Iain S. Thomas and Jasmine Wang have striven to garner advice from a robot brain, expecting to receive mechanized platitudes—and yet these writers discover the soulfulness of a wise poet, who might someday walk beside us, perhaps even sprinting past us, on our hike up the slopes of Parnassus.”—Christian Bök, experimental poet, author of Eunoia, and Griffin Poetry Prize winner

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quite surprising considering the output from the A

I think this is going to surprise a lot of people. My experience with artificial intelligence has been much different, and it really in this situation sort of acts as a guru, for instance Gandhi. interesting and existential and philosophical answers to the great questions asked. highly recommended.

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Understandable and Insightful.

A nice conceptual and understandable insight on AI and being human. A really nice series of questions to explore.

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Compelling and intelligently provacative

Honestly, once I listened to the AI introduction I was hooked. I was genuinely moved.

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BobbyDz

This is wonderful human experience. In an age when we can’t sort through all of the information that bombards us, this look at life at our evolutionary moment is a wonderful blessing. I will come back to this again and again for crisp insights and vivid reminders of what makes me human.

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Absolutely Fascinating

As a seeker who fully engages with modern culture and views open-mindedness, change and creativity as essential to our journey, I am speechless. The idea of such truthful knowledge without human feelings and emotions makes me wonder if this is just as it is.

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Inspiring

Has Surprisingly deep and spiritual answers. I Enjoyed it a lot. Looking forward to hear more.

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