Machine Like Me
About This Novel
British national treasure writer Ian McEwan's blockbuster new work on artificial intelligence is a perfect literary annotation for "Black Mirror", "Westworld" and "Love, Death and Robots". The boundary between fiction and reality is blurred here. McEwan once again subverts imagination and completely rewrites the history of human technological development. A young man and woman and a robot are trapped in a love triangle; this time, it is not just humans who are trapped in moral dilemmas. In 1982, in London, England, a parallel world, artificial intelligence research at that time had far exceeded our current level of development. Under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, Britain lost the Falklands War, and Tony Benn was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid national uproar. Turing, the "father of artificial intelligence," did not commit suicide. McEwan gave Turing the life he deserved, instead of being tried, imprisoned, or committing suicide. Turing lived a long life and lived in the respect of the world. His works created technological miracles. At the same time, 32-year-old Londoner Charlie started two new relationships: first, he fell in love with Miranda, his upstairs neighbor; second, he used his inheritance to buy a new humanoid robot "Adam". "Adam" has the intelligence and appearance to resemble the real thing, and can complete realistic yet natural movements and expression changes. With Miranda's help, Charlie reshaped the character of "Adam", and a set of strange triangle relationships gradually formed... And things slowly began to get out of control.
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