What Makes Us Human: Artificial Intelligence Answers Life’s Biggest Questions

What Makes Us Human: Artificial Intelligence Answers Life’s Biggest Questions

Category:  World Vision

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

For thousands of years, humanity has turned to the same sacred texts to explore these universal questions―from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to modern-day mystics. What if you could take all of the wisdom contained within these collective pages and, using the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, receive the answers?

Thanks to OpenAI, a nonprofit research lab whose mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the betterment of humanity―and What Makes Us Human offers an innovative exploration of AI’s potential in this realm.

To create this first-of-its-kind book, international bestselling poet Iain S. Thomas and prodigious researcher and innovator Jasmine Wang collaborated with OpenAI’s GPT-3, an advanced artificial intelligence. Wang and Thomas prompted GPT-3 with some of humanity’s greatest texts, and then asked GPT-3 our most pressing questions. Contained in What Makes Us Human? are the conversations and exchanges that followed.

Iain S. Thomas is one of the world’s most popular poets and the bestselling creator and author of numerous books, including I Wrote This for You, an experimental and pioneering prose and photography project. He has spoken, toured, and read his work all over the world, and he has appeared on panels at numerous conferences, including BookCon in New York and the Sharjah International Book Fair in the UAE. He lives in New York.

Jasmine Wang is a technologist and philosopher and is a 2020 Thiel Fellow and 2019 Interact Fellow. She has worked with the Partnership on AI, the Future of Humanity Institute, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms. She lives in New York.

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