
Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Culture
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
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Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Culture
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
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