The Most Human Human

I really enjoyed this book. The framework is that the author wants to win the Most Human Human award at the annual Loebner Prize, a competition that is actually focused on the AI community. In preparation for this event he decides to investigate what it actually means to be human, with his research, conversations, and introspections comprising the actual bulk of the book. This idea - what it means to be human - takes the reader on a free-ranging journey, so much so that at times I actually stopped to think, “Wait, what is this book about?” Once I remembered the overall subject matter, the topics would make sense in the book; even though the author talks about things that seem unrelated, they all fit nicely together in the context of how they make us human (or less-than-human, which is more interesting). By the final chapter I was getting a little impatient for the end, which the author actually discusses in general at one point. Overall, very enjoyable.