{"id":102431,"date":"2020-02-16T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/with-the-development-of-generalized-ai-whats-the-meaning-of-a-person"},"modified":"2020-02-16T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:03:12","slug":"with-the-development-of-generalized-ai-whats-the-meaning-of-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/with-the-development-of-generalized-ai-whats-the-meaning-of-a-person","title":{"rendered":"With the development of generalized AI, what\u2019s the meaning of a person?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-the-development-of-generalized-ai-whats-the-meaning-of-a-person2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang\u2019s <i>Exhalation<\/i>. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and vistas, and <i>The <i>Lifecycle of Software Objects<\/i><\/i> doesn\u2019t disappoint. Centered in a future world where virtual worlds and generalized AI have become commonplace, it\u2019s a fantastic example of speculative fiction that forces us to confront all kinds of fundamental questions.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve missed the earlier parts in this book club series, be sure to check out:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang\u2019s Exhalation. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and vistas, and The Lifecycle of Software Objects doesn\u2019t disappoint. Centered in a future world where virtual worlds and generalized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}