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The Love Makers Kindle Edition

by Aifric Campbell (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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How artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays.

A chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It's Christmas Eve, and Scarlett, banker-turned-technologist, is leaving a secret underground lab to catch the last flight that will get her home in time to open presents with her three-year-old son. She offers a lift to a young woman in distress, who shares her intimate life story as they drive to the airport. These revelations will have devastating consequences for both of them.
 
The Love Makers is a philosophical thriller about female friendship, class, motherhood, women, and work--and how artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire.

Aifric Campbell combines her novel with essays from leading scientists and commentators who examine what's at stake in our human-machine relationships. What is our future as friends, parents, lovers? Will advances in intelligent machines reverse decades of progress for women? From robot nannies to generative art and our ancient dreams of intelligent machines, The Love Makers blends storytelling with science communication to investigate the challenges and opportunities of emergent technologies and how we want to live.
 
Contributors

Ronny Bogani, Joanna J. Bryson, Julie Carpenter, Stephen Cave, Anita Chandran, Peter R. N. Childs, Kate Devlin, Kanta Dihal, Mary Flanagan, Margaret Rhee, Amanda Sharkey, Roberto Trotta, E. R. Truitt, and Richard Watson
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"Wild, innovative and alive with intelligence and imagination, Aifric Campbell's novel is a dark Thelma and Louise road-trip for the AI generation."
—Arifa Akbar, chief theater critic at The Guardian and author of Consumed

"Keenly intelligent and deeply humane, The Love Makers is an essential handbook on the ways in which Artificial Intelligence has already changed the relationships between human beings, and will only continue to do so. The novel, Scarlett and Gurl, is a brilliant exploration of all the subtle ways in which AI will challenge our understanding of motherhood, friendship, and romantic love; combined with the accompanying essays and poems, it paints a vivid picture of a future that is both startlingly different and uncannily familiar, and demands that we pay closer attention to the way we treat each other now."
—Louisa Hall, author of Trinity and Speak

About the Author

Aifric Campbell is the author three novels: On the Floor, longlisted for the International Orange Prize 2012 (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), The Loss Adjustor; and The Semantics of Murder. She spent fourteen years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where she became the first woman managing director on the London trading floor. Her journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Irish Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, Elle, and the Sunday Business Post. She teaches at Imperial College London.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08V53PT3L
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Goldsmiths Press (November 23, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3204 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1912685841
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THE LOVE MAKERS (2021) is Aifric Campbell's 4th book and combines her novel, Scarlett and Gurl, with contributor essays to ask what is the future of love? "Wild, innovative and alive with intelligence and imagination ... a dark Thelma & Louise for the AI generation." (Arifa Akbar, Guardian) "... a suspenseful, plausible near-future road trip published alongside essays by experts in fields ranging from robotics and artificial intelligence to law and ethics. It deserves attention." (Lisa Tuttle, Guardian) "A brilliant exploration of all the subtle ways that AI challenges our understanding of motherhood, friends and romantic love." (Louisa Hall) Aifric's previous novels: ON THE FLOOR, longlisted for the 2012 ORANGE PRIZE and inspired by her years working on the trading floor at Morgan Stanley, "plunges straight into the financial world’s heart of darkness." (LA Times); THE SEMANTICS OF MURDER, inspired by the unsolved murder of a brilliant mathematician at UCLA and THE LOSS ADJUSTOR, which tells the story of a young woman haunted by childhood tragedy. Aifric has written for the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, received residencies at Yaddo and the Museum of Fine Art Houston and her speaking engagements include the LSE and The Global Economics Forum, Dublin. She grew up in Ireland, studied in Sweden and lives in London. She holds a PhD from UEA and teaches at Imperial College London. Follow her on www.aifriccampbell.com/Twitter/LinkedIn

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