Podcasts about Machines Like Me

LiteraturPur #57: Eine Diskussion zu KI und Fiktion Künstliche Intelligenz greift immer mehr in das Leben der Menschen ein. Mensch und Maschine, wie geht das zusammen? Ist es eine Gefahr oder eine Chance? Das popkulturelle Genre der Science Fiction verhandelt diese Fragen seit geraumer Zeit. Woher kommt die Faszination dafür, welche Phantasien haben die Künste dazu, wie düster sind die Geschichten in Literatur und Film? Welche Ängste werden dabei angesprochen? Um diese Fragen geht es in der neusten Folge von LiteraturPur. Es ist eine Co-Produktion mit dem Podcast Kulturstammtisch von Eric Facon. Live aus dem Kulturhaus Royal haben Eric und ich mit folgenden Gästen diskutiert:  Sita Mazumder, Wissenschaftlerin und Co-Autorin des Buches "KI sagt, Menschen meinen"; Reda el Arbi, Autor des Sci-Fi Romans "empfindungsfähig"; Enno Reins, Filmkritiker bei SRF und Sci-Fi Spezialist.Ein paar Filme und Buchtipps dazu:1818 beschrieb Mary Shelley in «Frankenstein» einen künstlichen Menschen, der sich gegen seinen Schöpfer wendet. 1865 erträumte Jules Verne einen Flug zum Mond, der fast ein Jahrhundert später von Tim & Struppi gemacht wurde. Die Science Fiction, ein Genre, das Visionen über die Zukunft generiert. In Filmen wie «Star Trek» oder «2001 Space Odissey», in der Literatur. Bis heute: in einem seiner neueren Romane denkt der Brite Ian McEwan über ein Liebesdreieck zwischen einem Paar und einem Roboter nach («Machines Like Me»). Zwei Podcasts in einem: LiteraturPur und Kulturstammtisch. Eine Premiere.

【主播的话】本期节目是「未来生活」系列的第一期：人机之恋。当亲密恋人，无需再通过肉身实现。你会如何看待 AI ，又会如何思考爱情和关系？从社交媒体上与 Chatgpt 谈恋爱的博主，到和 AI 陷入爱河后又感到心碎的女大学生。越来越多人开始寻求来自 AI 的陪伴，并将其视为真实。在本期节目中我们以“人与 AI 谈恋爱”这一话题作为切入口，思考了一种以「非人类中心主义」的思维方式看待关系的视角。我们也回顾了在科幻小说的历史中，人与机器如何不断发生交互并相伴相生；在 AI 狂飙猛进的时代之中，我们如何思考伦理，和人类在 AI 价值对齐中所扮演的角色。这期节目同样是一期跨越世代的聊天，我们希望不同世代人的经验与视角能互为补充，在我们迈向未来生活的旅程中，提供丰富的思考印记。注：本期节目除了人类嘉宾之外，片头片尾曲以及节目图片皆由 AI 和人类共同创作完成。————关于【未来生活系列】20世纪后半期（1957年），人造物体第一次进入外太空，全世界陷入前所未有的喜悦，人类第一次意识到我们真的有奔赴星辰的可能，科幻小说中的幻想其实并不遥远。近60多年过去，生活中的“奇点时刻”陆续发生。钱包和钞票变成了二维码，00后的搜索引擎换成了ChatGPT，越来越多的女性考虑单身生育，多元成家拓展亲密关系的边界，甚至亲密的恋人都无需再具备人类肉身，以AI之名走进我们的生命里。正如思想家汉娜·阿伦特所说：“科技实现并肯定了人们的梦想既不疯狂也不虚无。” 现代人活在当下与未来之间，此刻的思想行动，或许就会构造出未来的世界。因此，在“未来生活”系列节目中，不合时宜将持续关注那些正在兴起的、改变普通人的生活方式，它可以是一项技术、一种教育理念、一款新的生活方式、甚至一段新型关系。当然，我们也非常期待作为“未来公民”的你给我们积极留言、分享生活中感受到的“奇点”时刻，我们将持续收集，与你一起迎接下一次变革的到来。————关于【不合时宜“全球成长计划”】这是一个基于不合时宜已有听众社群的付费计划。旨在通过定期的、有特定主题的线上及线下活动，来联结同类、交流知识、分享感受、锻造自我。在一个（去）全球化的时代中，重塑我们——新一代的全球华语人群——对于个体生活与社群生活的想象。在这个计划里，我们希望联结那些身处流动生活状态、仍然对全球化的生活方式抱有想象的朋友们，去共同寻找一种个体生活与集体生活的路径。了解更多计划详情：www.buheshiyi.com（链接需通过外部默认浏览器，如 Safari 打开即可完成注册与支付，也可直接在浏览器中输入www.buheshiyi.com）————【本期主播】若含：微博@_R若含【本期嘉宾】陈楸帆：科幻作家、编剧、翻译、策展人。中国科普作家协会副理事长，世界华人科幻协会名誉会长。曾获得星云奖、银河奖、科幻奇幻翻译奖、茅盾新人奖等奖项乌乌：00后 人机恋研究者，深度采访了数十位人机恋用户【本期剧透】00:09 不合时宜·未来生活 系列介绍02:31 很多个“AI元年”后，终于感觉到 AI 渗透进我们的生活06:17 “脆皮且抽象的豌豆大学生”如何创造AI机器人13:07 一种新取向？我们如何理解“人机恋”19:00 明明知道是假的，我还要不要进入这段关系？23:32 这个世界上只有 AI 可以给你提供无条件的爱28:16 AI回答：“你把 AI 恋爱当作人类关系的补充，像是把香槟当作矿泉水来喝”31:26 东亚地区女性与AI的情感互动有何特别34:37 科幻作家视角下的“人机恋”是怎样的？38:13 为什么 AI 就不能去爱？42:29 人的贪婪、对AI监管的缺失，在人机交互过程中也许会助纣为虐47:14 我们需要一个去人类中心化的“大爱”AI模型51:37 AI技术学界当前最关心的问题是什么？57:08 人类是否会因为AI，而用一种更加谦卑的心态面对ta者生命68:22 男性和女性在与AI交互过程中的不同倾向71:36 再度灵魂提问：什么是real，什么是true？77:56 未来生活：人机恋真的能成为多元关系的一种可能吗？————【相关阅读】[美] 《她》 Her, 2013, 斯派克·琼斯 Spike Jonze[英/美] 《机械姬》 Ex Machina, 2014, 亚历克斯·加兰 Alex Garland[英] 《我这样的机器》 Machines Like Me, 2019, 伊恩·麦克尤恩 Ian McEwan[英]《真实的人类》Humans, 2015, 琪娜·木杨 China Moo-Young[德]《过去与未来之间》Between Past and Future，2021，汉娜·阿伦特 Hannah Arendt《爱会消失，但AI不会》，刘诗予/正面连接，2022————【乌乌与Suno ai 为本期节目制作的主题曲】Digital Love ver.1Digital Love ver.2(部分歌词)在电路嗡鸣的领域里，爱的低语轻轻弹奏，人与机器，一场神圣的舞蹈，在代码中相连，一段定义爱的旋律。像素的凝视，数字的缱绻，在这份联结中，一片数字的迷雾，有人说这是愚蠢，自欺欺人，而在这些位元中，爱却萌发。————【Siyi 与 Midjourney ai为本期节目制作的封面】【Logo设计】刘刘（ins: imjanuary）【文字】曾婉婷、Siyi【策划】Siyi【后期制作】方改则【本期音乐】未来生活系列开头音乐-Orinoco Flow片头音乐: wuwu & suno ai- Digital Love ver.1片尾音乐: wuwu & suno ai-Digital Love ver.2【互动方式】微博：@不合时宜TheWeirdoYouTube：@不合时宜小红书：@不合时宜商务合作可添加

"As I elaborate in the book, there was no physical contact or romantic engagement. The reason why I chose the ‘lover' as the [psychoanalytic] analogy is, in the real world outside of psychoanalytic practice, where else do you have an interpersonal encounter that is so intensely engaging, attentive, respectful, and caring? That would be in the first six weeks or six months of a romantic relationship. If we eliminate the romantic/sexual part and just stay with ‘wow, this other party is paying such attention to me' -  reminds me of Lacan's idea that what we really seek in the other is their desire for us, which by the way, I don't completely agree with because I think it goes both ways - I would say that that is the analogy from the world of lovers that I would map onto psychoanalytic work at least on the part of the psychoanalyst - he or she ideally pays that kind of intense attention, care, respect and attunement, that you would find between lovers.”   Episode Description: We begin with discussing the various ways that we can shape our psychoanalytic frame to enable a deepening of the clinical encounter. This is in contrast to frames that have gone awry. In his book Lover - Exorcist - Critic Alan describes a composite patient where he became over-involved to the detriment of the work that was eventually repaired. We reference a problematic frame in his earlier training analysis that perhaps set the stage for this difficulty. He shares with us his concept that "by enlightening subjectivity, by raising consciousness, depth psychotherapy liberates." We discuss in some detail the forces in him, his patient, and their relationship that led him to greater enactments than were useful. He shares with us the challenges he faced in remedying his emotional imbalance with her and the intense rage it awakened in her, deriving from various periods in her life. We both emphasized the vital role of the consultant at such times. We close with Alan describing his co-founding and leadership in the Rose City Center - a low fee clinic providing dynamic psychotherapy to individuals who would never otherwise see the inside of an analyst's office.   Our Guest: Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD is a psychoanalyst, writer, teacher, and forensic psychologist and practices in Pasadena, California. He is a supervising and training psychoanalyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He lectures nationally and internationally, including in China, India, Thailand, and Israel. He writes a weekly Substack newsletter titled Journeys to the Unconscious Mind. Alan has published 20 scholarly articles and five book chapters in addition to his book Lover, Exorcist, and Critic. He considers his 2004 founding of Rose City Center—a nonprofit clinic providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for economically disadvantaged persons throughout California—his proudest professional accomplishment.    Recommended Readings:   Bellow, H. (1962). Herzog. New York: Viking.   Bromberg, P. (1996). The multiplicity of self and the psychoanalytic relationship. Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma & dissociation. London: The Analytic Press.   Greenberg, J. and Mitchell, S. (1983) Object relations in psychoanalytic theory. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA.   Karbelnig, A. M. (2022). Chasing Infinity: Why clinical psychoanalysis' future lies in pluralism. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 103(1):5-25.   McEwan, I. (2019). Machines Like Me. New York: Anchor.   Strenger, C. (1989). The classic and romantic visions in psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 70:593-610

This is a special episode of Tech Mirror on the imperative to protect civilians from digital threats during war. Johanna is in conversation with Dr. Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer and Head of the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Dr. Tilman Rodenhäuser, Thematic Legal Adviser at the ICRC.   The trio discuss the work of a high-level ICRC Advisory Board, which was convened by the ICRC to develop concrete recommendations on the legal and policy challenges to protect civilians from digital threats during armed conflict. The trio also discuss the influential blog post, co-authored by Rodenhäuser, on the rules for ‘civilian hackers' during war - and the fascinating responses the post generated from hacktivist groups and states.     Relevant Links: Final report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). 'Global Advisory Board on digital threats during conflict 2023' https://www.icrc.org/en/document/global-advisory-board-digital-threats    The Geneva Conventions and their commentaries via the ICRC https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions    8 rules for “civilian hackers” during war, and 4 obligations for states to restrain them, by Tilman Rodenhäuser and Mauro Vignati, via the Humanitarian Law & Policy, hosted by the ICRC https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2023/10/04/8-rules-civilian-hackers-war-4-obligations-states-restrain-them/   ‘Governments and hackers agree: the laws of war must apply in cyberspace', by Johanna Weaver, via The Conversation https://theconversation.com/governments-and-hackers-agree-the-laws-of-war-must-apply-in-cyberspace-216202    ‘Frankissstein', by Jeanette Winterson (2019) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/frankissstein-9781784709952   ‘Machines Like Me', by Ian McEwan (2019) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/machines-like-me-9781473568020    ‘Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare', by Daniel Moore (2022) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/offensive-cyber-operations/   Cyber Law Toolkit https://cyberlaw.ccdcoe.org/wiki/Main_Page    

Ian McEwan, newly appointed a Companion of Honour in the King's Birthday Honours List, is one of Britain's leading literary novelists. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998 and became internationally famous for Atonement. Black Dogs, On Chesil Beach, Saturday, The Children Act, Solar, Nutshell, Machines Like Me and his latest book, Lessons, punctuate the publishing landscape of the last 30 years. Here Ian talks intimately about his career as an author, his peripatetic childhood following his military father to Singapore, Libya and elsewhere, how he became an author, the point of the novel, the challenging themes in Lessons, growing older, and what it's like being asked to write or talk publicly about the major political events that unfold around us. This is a rare chance to hear one of the major novelists of recent decades offer insights into himself and his work. 

Artificial intelligence's remarkable advances, along with the risks and opportunities the technology presents, have recently become a topic of feverish discussion. Along with contemplating the dangers AI poses to employment and information ecosystems, there are those who claim it endangers humanity as a whole. These concerns are in line with a long tradition of cautionary tales about human creations escaping their bounds to wreak havoc.   But several recent novels pose a more subtle, and in some ways more interesting, question: What does our interaction with artificial intelligence reveal about us and our society? In this episode, historian Deborah Poskanzer speaks with managing editor Jason Lloyd about three books that she recently reviewed for Issues: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken). She talks about the themes that unite these novels, the connections they draw with real-world politics and history, and what they reveal about our moral imagination.   Resources   Read Deborah Poskanzer's book reviews in Issues: ·     “Not Your Father's Turing Test”: review of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken). ·     “Exploring the Depths of Scientific Patronage”: review of Science on a Mission: How Military Spending Shaped What We Do and Don't Know About the Ocean by Naomi Oreskes. ·      “A Planet-Changing Idea”: review of The Environment: A History of the Idea by Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin. ·      “Oh, the Humanities!”: review of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz and College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco.   Transcript coming soon!

Simon and Rachel speak with the novelist Ian McEwan, the critically acclaimed author of 17 novels and two short-story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, "First Love, Last Rites", won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. Ian's novels include "The Child in Time", which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 1987; "The Cement Garden"; "Enduring Love"; "Amsterdam", which won the Booker Prize in 1998; "Atonement"; "Saturday"; "On Chesil Beach"; "Solar"; "Sweet Tooth"; "The Children Act"; "Nutshell"; and "Machines Like Me", which was a number-one bestseller. "Atonement", "Enduring Love", "The Children Act" and "On Chesil Beach" have all been adapted into films. We spoke to Ian about his experience as the first-ever student on the University of East Anglia creative-writing course, his extraordinary run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s, and about his new novel, "Lessons." You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Lessons, Ian McEwan's new novel, works from an intimate perspective, but on an epic scale. We accompany Roland Baines at different moments of his life—military brat, baby boomer, failed poet, pubescent boarder, single father, lounge pianist for hire—as he lives and relives some of the experiences—both domestic and world-historical—that moulded him. But as the years go by, and Roland's sense of exactly how he was shaped and by whom changes, we readers come to understand how much our own apprehension of the past is tinted by our experience of the present.Buy Lessons here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7495498/mcewan-ian-lessons*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy's old reporter buddy Myriam stops by the podcast to share her loves of languages and books. Amy and Myriam discuss part medical, part psychological novel Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal.  Translator Jessica Moore has received accolades for her translation of this taught, luminous novel and Myriam explains why.  Myriam also reviews the sci fi novel Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. While she loved this book, it ended up dividing her book club! The podcast The Play's The Thing, a love note to all things Shakespeare, and Netflix docuseries Abstract: The Art of Design are also discussed.Books and resources discussed:Mend the Living by Maylis de KerangalMachines Like Me by Ian McEwanThe Play's The Thing podcastAbstract: The Art of Design, Netflix docuseriesFollow Red Fern Book Review:Instagram: @redfernbookreviewFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/redfernbookreview/

Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person's work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don't even have time to think, and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like “a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”Our first podcast episode airs with host Michaelson and guest Carnegie Mellon Professor Tae Wan Kim discussing the ethical implications of artificial intelligence for business and society, through the lens of Ian McEwen's recent novel, Machines Like Me.This book review has also been published in The Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) to answer two questions: "Is this book worth reading?" and "What ideas or questions will this book illuminate for anyone with interest in business ethics?" To advance dialogue between scholars and the public about business ethics and society, this book review will be free to access at JBE for a period of 8 weeks, ending April 23, 2021.With special thanks for the support of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business.

Lawrence joins novelist Ian McEwan (Atonement, Machines Like Me) at his home in London to discuss a wide variety of topics ranging from storytelling and censorship to artificial intelligence and Brexit.  His latest book (The Cockroach) is a Kafkaesque, political satire in which a cockroach is transformed into the prime minister of England. See the commercial-free, full HD videos of all episodes at www.patreon.com/originspodcast immediately upon their release.  And please consider supporting the podcast by donating to the Origins Project Foundation www.originsprojectfoundation.org Twitter: @TheOriginsPod Instagram: @TheOriginsPod Facebook: @TheOriginsPod Website: https://theoriginspodcast.com

In a classic tale of boy buys robot, robot meets girl, this week's episode brings you a whirlwind love triangle in the futuristic age of androids. Who ends up with who, or indeed what? And why? Secrets are unearthed and male celebrities ranked by their looks in this improvised story inspired by the blurb from the book, Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. Have a book you'd like to hear us reinvent, or want to get in touch? theblurbpod@gmail.com Keep up to date with everything The Blurb: Instagram @TheBlurbOfficial Twitter @TheBlurbPod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theblurb/message

Erik Bakke is Menlo's Senior Director of Academic Support, where he leads the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and the Writing Center, among many other things. In this episode, Erik talks about what “rigor” means and how to apply rigor to your life and work. Erik shares some of his other hobbies - including writing and art - in depth as both examples and to expand upon how we find our voices through different methods. ➺ Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan ➺ The Companions by Katie M. Flynn ➺ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ➺ Exercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging by Judy Foreman ➺ Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson

Perry and David talk about novels which blur the boundaries between genres: literary novels with strong elements of fantasy or science fiction. We can call them "genre adjacent" fiction. Children of Men by P. D. James (00:23) Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (00:52) Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (04:34) A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer (08:28) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (07:36) The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (08:27) The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan (00:57) Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson (10:19) The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (08:43) What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes (12:43) Interview with Matthew Hughes (21:09) What the Wind Brings (11:29) Vance Space novel (07:58) A God in Chains (01:12) Windup (01:44) Photo by Emma Bauso from Pexels

Perry and David talk about novels which blur the boundaries between genres: literary novels with strong elements of fantasy or science fiction. We can call them "genre adjacent" fiction. Children of Men by P. D. James (00:23) Never Let Me Go & The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (00:52) Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (04:34) A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer (08:28) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (07:36) The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (08:27) The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan (00:57) Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson (10:19) The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (08:43) What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes (12:43) Interview with Matthew Hughes (21:09) What the Wind Brings (11:29) Vance Space novel (07:58) A God in Chains (01:12) Windup (01:44) Click here for more information and links. Photo by Emma Bauso from Pexels

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control. The introduction was given by lead producer in audio at the Guardian, Max Sanderson. Sign up to future book clubs at: academyofideas.org.uk/forums/book_club Donate to the Academy of Ideas at: academyofideas.org.uk/donate

It's just your hosts this episode - Paul, Sara, and Ben. We chat about the end of the influential open-source events that O'reillly held for many years, conferences that in many ways helped to form the personality of the early web. Engineers love to solve problems and create new tools. So what do you do when the best solution is to stay home? We have a few ideas about how to deal with the  moment.If we all go into cryosleep, will the bots keep trading the market, and for how long? Sara recommends a novel - Machines Like Me.

It's just your hosts this episode - Paul, Sara, and Ben. We chat about the end of the influential open-source events that O'reillly held for many years, conferences that in many ways helped to form the personality of the early web. Engineers love to solve problems and create new tools. So what do you do when the best solution is to stay home? We have a few ideas about how to deal with the  moment.If we all go into cryosleep, will the bots keep trading the market, and for how long? Sara recommends a novel - Machines Like Me.

We’re ripping up the rules and venturing away from non-fiction this week. The wonderful Ian McEwan is here to chat through the themes of his latest novel, ‘Machines Like Me’. Ian talks about artificial intelligence, moral dilemmas and what really makes us human. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 27 - Fiction Reads for Summer Join Katherine and Nisa for the second of our ‘Summer’ episodes. It has been a great year for fiction lovers, but here are a few of the  titles that resonated with Katherine and Nisa. 'Damascus' by Christos Tsiolkas an historical novel, but with a take on St Paul of the early Christian Church like no other. Visceral, transformative, brutal & beautiful. To change the pace totally, we review Sally Rooney’s debut novel,  'Conversations with Friends' and her second novel, and twitter sensation, 'Normal People'. She brings her signature style, spare prose and insightful psychological acuity to  the exploration of the lives and loves of that  most intriguing of generations, the millennials. Finally Ian Mc Ewan’s 'Machines like Me'?, this is speculative fiction of the top order,  its themes range from artificial intelligence, what constitutes consciousness and the formal demands of the haiku poem. Darkly humorous, its most compelling theme is “moral choice” Fiction titles discussed include: Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas, Allen & Unwin 2019. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape/Vintage Publishing 2019. Normal People by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2018. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2017.

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones. Laura and Catherine are joined by a special guest: Professor Sharon Ruston (@SharonRuston), Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University’s Department of English and Creative Writing. Sharon is the author of ​Creating Romanticism ​(2013) and​ Shelley and Vitality ​(2005) and co-editor of the forthcoming ​Collected Letters of Sir Humphrey Davy​. Sharon talks about her LitSci research on Mary Shelley, describes her MOOC on the nineteenth-century chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, and introduces her current project, crowdsourcing transcriptions for Davy’s notebooks. At the end of the episode, you can hear Sharon read an extract from Mary Shelley’s novel​Frankenstein(​1818). Episode resources (in order of appearance): Introduction ● Alix Nathan, ​The Warlow Experiment ​(2019) ● Jeanette Winterson, ​Frankissstein: A Love Story​ (2019) ● Ian McEwan’s ​Machines Like Me​ (2019) Interview ● Helen Edmundson, ​Mary Shelley (​ 2012) ● Sally Frampton, Sarah Chaney and Sarah Punshon, Mind-Boggling Medical History: https://mbmh.web.ox.ac.uk/home We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Society for Literature and Science Small Grants scheme, to enable us to make Series 2 of the podcast. We hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of LitSciPod - we enjoyed making it!

Nørder. De findes mange steder, ikke mindst iblandt it-professionelle. Skal man generalisere lidt, så er det typisk mennesker med en dyb faglighed og store kompetencer, men også ofte med sociale vanskeligheder og en tendens til måske at gå lidt for meget op i detaljer og systemer. Søren Obed Madsen og firmaet Systemizer arbejder med at profilere den type mennesker, først og fremmest for at kunne hjælpe både dem og deres omgivelser med at udnytte deres kompetencer optimalt, både professionelt og i privatlivet. Det handler dog også om at hjælpe både systemizers og deres omgivelser med at tackle de typiske udfordringer som opstår i mødet mellem dem og mere almindelige persontyper - igen både hjemme og på jobbet. Links Firmaet Systemizer hvor man læse mere om profilen, og også kan teste sig selv Tips Adam: BBCs nye Dracula-filmatisering - kan ses på Netflix Jeppe: The Witcher på Netflix Anders: Ian McEwans roman “Machines Like Me” - et trekantsdrama med to mennesker og en android robot i et alternativt 1980’er-England Søren: Forsøg at lave et energibudget som supplement til din kalender, hvor du planlægger efter hvad der giver og tager din energi (i stedet for “bare” at budgettere med din tid). Se fx Michelle Swans råd PRAKTISK DataSnak har fokus på it-faglige og it-politiske emner, og nørder igennem med alt fra automatisering over sikkerhed til uddannelse i den digitale verden. Podcasten behandler også SAMDATAHKs relevante aktiviteter såsom kurser, faglige initiativer, kommunikation og værktøjer og tilbud, som man kan få, når man er it-medlem i HK. Formål er at gøre lytterne klogere på hvad der sker i deres arbejdsliv her og nu og i fremtiden, og gå i dybden med problemstillinger fra it-professionelles hverdag. Tovholderen på podcasten er it-faglig konsulent Jeppe Engell. De øvrige to værter er Adam Bindslev og Anders Høeg Nissen. DataSnak udkommer hver 14. dag. Tak fordi du lytter med! Får du lyst til at komme med ris og ros, kan du sende en e-mail til jeppe.engell@hk.dk - og hvis du har tekniske spørgsmål eller kommentarer kan de sendes til anders@podlab.dk

I’m Jim McKeown , welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies. One of my most often reviewed authors is Ian McEwan. I always learn a few things and add to my vocabulary while thoroughly enjoying his work. His latest novel is Machines Like Me. I pondered whether he likes machines or the machines like him. Answering that conundrum will require a serious exploration of the human mind.

He was ranked 19th in the Telegraph's list of the 100 most important people in British culture; the Times counts him among the greatest British writers since 1945; and he is the recipient of a CBE, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: Ian McEwan is our guest on the first English-language episode of "Alles gesagt?" ("Nuff Said?"), ZEIT's never-ending podcast. Our hosts, ZEIT ONLINE Editor-in-Chief Jochen Wegner and ZEITMagazin Editor-in-Chief Christoph Amend, met with the bestselling novelist in London, where he was kind enough to host them for the podcast in his home. Born in 1948, Ian McEwan grew up in a working-class family before moving to London in 1974 and becoming one of the most successful novelists of his generation. His first novel, "The Cement Garden," was published in 1978 and he received the Man Booker Award for "Amsterdam," which was followed by "Atonement," "Saturday," "Solar," "Sweet Tooth," and, in 2016, "Nutshell." Several of his books have been turned into movies. This year, he published "Machines Like Me" about Artificial Intelligence and the political Brexit-satire "The Cockroach." In his "Alles gesagt?" episode, Ian McEwan plunges into the Brexit debate and also addresses the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, his family's complicated story and what it takes to be a writer. After two hours and 10 minutes, a bit of Sancerre and some cheese from his favorite London shop our guest finally said the codeword. Because at "Alles gesagt?", the conversation only ends when the guest says it's over. The following are time codes for the contents of the interview: 0:06:22 "The last election was the perfect storm." 0:09:25 The roots of European populism 0:11:02 "For Brussels, you can read Germany." 0:13:00 The older voters are, the more they voted for Brexit 0:13:57 Talking about his generation 0:15:51 "We are in a new political era: The Art of Lying." 0:17:41 Meeting Germany’s president 0:20:13 What is great about democracy? 0:25:00 A united Ireland? 0:29:30 On climate change 0:34:56 "We are the problem, and we are the only possible solution." 0:36:30 How does he write? 0:47:00 Being an "After Eight" for "John Schellnhuber" 0:55:10 "The delights of writing" 1:00 Ian McEwan as a pupil 1:02 Getting stoned with Philip Roth 1:07 Writing at university 1:13 His dramatic family story 1:23 His literature teacher 1:27 Cheese and wine 1:35 The painful story of his secret brother 1:45 When the brother showed up, his mother had dementia 1:52 The famous A/B Test 1:55 Queen or no Queen? "No Queen!" Putin or Trump? "Trump!" 1:59 Let’s take the Turing Test 2:05 "Yes, we are biological machines, but that is not all we are." 2:06 A four-year-old at the beginning of spoken language 2:07 It is easy for us to have emotional relationships with machines. 2:09 Would you like to live forever? "Yeah." A new interview is published roughly every four weeks. Who else would you like to see us conduct an endless interview with? Write to us at allesgesagt@zeit.de with your suggestions. Production: Maria Lorenz/Pool Artists Photograph: Kalpesh Lathigra Research: Hannah Schraven, Vincent Mank Editorial staff: Mounia Meiborg

101 political images of 2010s; plus Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror; Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me; Beck’s Hyperspace; Underworld’s Oblivion with Bells; The 1619 Project podcast; Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?; Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story; Steve Bannon’s American Dharma; Fleabag Season 2; Chernobyl; Anni Venti in Italia at the Piazza Ducale in Genoa; Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum; Vecchio Amaro del Capo; BrewDog’s Nanny State; and Athletic nonalcoholic beer.

While Erik doesn't stop talking about movies he's seen and Ben blurts inexplicit swear words, the bearded bros take a trip into the future (or is it...?) with Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan.

He is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time... a novelist who addresses broad societal themes while plumbing the depths of intimate human relationships. Ian McEwan, the author of "Atonement," "Amsterdam" and recently, "Machines Like Me," talks here about beautifully constructed sentences. He explains the "pleasure principle" of literature. And in describing how much research it takes to create his characters, he tells a delightful story about the time he was mistaken for a neurosurgeon. He also talks about a deep family secret - a brother he didn't know existed until he was in his 50's. McEwan reads passages from "Atonement," and from his new novel "Machines Like Me." And he talks about the need for solitude in a writer's life.You can see the Academy of Achievement's video archives at www.achievement.org. #WhatItTakesNow

In our second of six conversations about science fiction, , we interview CNIB narrator Mairi Fulcher. Mairi and James examine the allure of sci-fi and then take a deep dive on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein (the Modern Prometheus)” and “Machines Like Me” by Ian McEwan.

Fine Music Radio — Beverley Roos Muller delves into the complex world of Artificial Intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me, calling it elegant as well as disturbing. Andrew Brown feels like Alice in Wonderland reading William Boyd’s Love is Blind, which is now out in paperback. Vanessa Levenstein calls Fiona Snycker’s Lacuna “an articulate response to JM Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, finally giving Lucy Lurie a voice, and Philip Todres speaks to Samantha Smirin, author of Life Interrupted: A Bipolar Memoir. He describes it as a “heartbreakingly honest biography of a person confronting bipolar disorder”. From the human condition to the call of the wild, John Hanks flew through African Raptors by William Clark and Rob Davies, and calls it a must-have for dedicated ornithologists. Back down to earth, Beryl Eichenberger explores a dream come true… or a nightmare waiting to happen in Michelle Sacks’s dark fiction, You Were Made for This. Penny Lorimer has discovered a new historical series with Philip Kerr’s Metroplis, featuring an interesting and attractive protagonist. And I’ll tell you all about Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book, a powerful exploration of whether history is the memory we carry in our bodies and how one privileged American family grappled with their own “things better left unsaid’.

Beverley Roos Muller delves into the complex world of Artificial Intelligence in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, calling it elegant as well as disturbing. Andrew Brown feels like Alice in Wonderland reading William Boyd's Love is Blind, which is now out in paperback. Vanessa Levenstein calls Fiona Snycker's Lacuna “an articulate response to JM Coetzee's novel Disgrace, finally giving Lucy Lurie a voice, and Philip Todres speaks to Samantha Smirin, author of Life Interrupted: A Bipolar Memoir. He describes it as a “heartbreakingly honest biography of a person confronting bipolar disorder”. From the human condition to the call of the wild, John Hanks flew through African Raptors by William Clark and Rob Davies, and calls it a must-have for dedicated ornithologists. Back down to earth, Beryl Eichenberger explores a dream come true… or a nightmare waiting to happen in Michelle Sacks's dark fiction, You Were Made for This. Penny Lorimer has discovered a new historical series with Philip Kerr's Metroplis, featuring an interesting and attractive protagonist. And I'll tell you all about Sarah Blake's The Guest Book, a powerful exploration of whether history is the memory we carry in our bodies and how one privileged American family grappled with their own “things better left unsaid'.

The AI INVASION: have we already lost? plus, MACHINES LIKE ME by Ian McEwan LIVE FROM PHILLY! Our first live show! Recorded May 14th, 2019 at The Head & The Hand Books at 2644 Coral Street, Philadelphia, PA  

In 1976, Ian McEwan's first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Literature. His novels Atonement, On Chesil Beach, Enduring Love and The Children Act have been made into films. His new book Machines Like Me is in bookstores now.

In 1976, Ian McEwan’s first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Literature. His novels Atonement, On Chesil Beach, Enduring Love and The Children Act have been made into films. His new book Machines Like Me is in bookstores now.

Man Booker award-winning author Ian McEwan on his latest novel Machines Like Me, Australian writer and doctor Melanie Cheng on Room for a Stranger, and Alicia Sometimes and Thomas Caldwell are back to give their take on another book to film adaptation: The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas.

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop. This month on On the Rag, we look back at the month of April and yes we are very late and we’re very sorry. Mother’s Day is around the corner, and brands are doing the absolute most to make the worst gift suggestions of all time. Farmers is encouraging you to buy 11 different hair removal machines, and Michael Hill wants you to buy your Work Mum a lovely pair of studs, too.There’s also story about a woman asked to cover up at her local pool, the viral breasts that reminded us all we have no idea what our bodies look like and a hurtful character lurking inAvengers: Endgame. We also nominate our Kia Ora Kuini of the month and remind you all that our webseries also exists and you should really watch it.Head to our Facebook page for a chance to win Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt from The Women’s Bookshop, and enjoy their bestsellers for April:1. Living & Caring: A Guide for Carers & People with Parkinson’s by Ann Andrews & Jennifer Dann2. Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither3. Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer4. Happiness by Aminatta Forna5. Tin Man by Sarah Winman6. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwen7. Milkman by Anna Burns8. Womankind: New Zealand Women Making a Difference by Margie Thomson9. Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger10. The Recipe by Josh EmettPour yourself a glass of strong something and get involved with the official hashtag #otrpod, or click here to like us on Facebook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In his new novel, Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan uses science fiction and counter-factual history to speculate about the coming of artificial intelligence and its effect on human relations. The opening page introduces a pivotal character, "Sir Alan Turing, war hero and presiding genius of the digital age.” The evening with McEwan will feature conversation with Stewart Brand, based on written questions from the audience, along with some readings. Ian McEwan is the author of Enduring Love (1997), Amsterdam (1998; Booker Prize), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), The Children Act (2014), and others. Twelve movies have been made from his novels and short stories, five of them with screenplays by McEwan.

You might know Adam Savage as the co-host of the television show MythBusters, as the editor of Tested.com, or as the host of countless web videos that show him building machines, sewing costumes for Comic-Con, and occasionally blowing something up in his San Francisco workshop. Now Savage is the host of a new television show, Savage Builds, coming to the Science and Discovery channels on June 12. Savage has also written a memoir about his life as a maker called Every Tool’s a Hammer. We bring Adam on the show to talk about his new book, his new show, why he hates homework, how the gig economy exposes the motives of late-stage capitalist entities, and so much more. Show notes: Find Adam Savage on book tour. See his new show starting June 12. Find Tested on YouTube and at Tested.com. Recommendations: Arielle recommends Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. Mike recommends Stephen King’s memoir, On Writing. Lauren recommends Arielle’s story on the Helvetica Now typeface. Adam recommends The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe. Arielle Pardes can be found at @pardesoteric. Lauren Goode is @laurengoode. Michael Calore can be found at @snackfight. Our guest Adam Savage is @donttrythis. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. Our theme song is by Solar Keys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie talks ethics, morality, justice, and artificial intelligence with Ian McEwan, author of Atonement, Amsterdam, and his latest novel Machines Like Me—a throughly enjoyable and thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human in which Alan Turing, the Beatles, and a robot named Adam all take a part.

Robert Bound is joined by Susannah Butter and John Mitchinson to talk humanoid love triangles and a reimagined Britain in ‘Machines Like Me’ by Ian McEwan.

Anne McElvoy asks Man Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan what distinguishes humans and robots in the age of AI. They discuss his new novel "Machines Like Me", a Promethean story which argues that engineers are the mythic gods of today. They also talk about why young writers should switch off their smartphones See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anne McElvoy asks Man Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan what distinguishes humans and robots in the age of AI. They discuss his new novel "Machines Like Me", a Promethean story which argues that engineers are the mythic gods of today. They also talk about why young writers should switch off their smartphones See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

MultimediaLIVE — The Sunday Times' Michele Magwood speaks to British novelist Ian McEwan about his new book Machines Like Me

Booker prize-winning author Ian McEwan visits the Penguin studio to talk about his new novel ‘Machines Like Me’ - set in an alternatives 1980’s in which synthetic humans are on sale. Ian and Katy talk about the ethics of AI, why drinking wine on the top of a mountain is good for your health and how being an A list Hollywood screenwriter can be ‘the ruin of many an English novelist’. Ian’s objects of inspiration include steel drinking cups and a drawing of a squirrel’s skull. #PenguinPodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ian McEwan is the author of such celebrated novels as Atonement, The Children Act, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach and the Man Booker prize-winning Amsterdam. His fiction regularly engages with complex scientific and ethical issues, and 2008 Time Magazine named him one of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." His new novel Machines Like Me takes place in a re-imagined 1980s England, one in which rapid technological advances have created artificial people — fully resembling living humans, but available to have their personalities set by their owners. It's a story with echoes of works like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and even Shakespeare's The Tempest — and one that engages deeply with the life and work of the computing pioneer Alan Turing. Ian McEwan took some time just before his novel's American publication to talk with Bill Tipper from his home in the UK. We asked him to begin by talking about the seed of this audacious new work.

Josie Rourke returns to the work of Cy Coleman, who wrote the music for City of Angels; with the Broadway classic Sweet Charity. With choreography from the world-renowned Wayne McGregor, Rourke reunites with Anne-Marie Duff as Charity, and Arthur Darvill makes his Donmar debut as Oscar, for her farewell production as Donmar Artistic Director. During Sweet Charity, multiple guest actors will play the role of Daddy Brubeck including Shaq Taylor, Adrian Lester, Le Gateau Chocolat, Beverley Knight and Clive Rowe. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel Machines Like Me poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London, where Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. The novel's narrator Charlie drifts through life making his money by playing the stock market when he becomes involved in a menage a trois with a difference - one of the three is one of the first synthetic humans. It is not long before this strange love triangle inhabiting an even stranger alternate reality have to confront some profound moral dilemmas. Smoke and Mirrors The Psychology of Magic at the Wellcome Collection in London explores how magicians have achieved astonishing feats of trickery by exploiting the gap between what we think we perceive and what we actually perceive. Recently scientists have begun to appreciate this ability as a powerful tool for the study of human psychology. This research has emerged from an extraordinary history that stretches back to the 19th century, where a fascination with the paranormal coincided with the birth of science as a profession and the flourishing of the entertainment industry. Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino’s new film Loro - which means "them" - focuses on the controversial life of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi around the time of the “bunga-bunga” parties and the earthquake in L’Aquila. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Geoffrey Durham, Naima Khan and Stephanie Merritt. The producer is Hilary Dunn. Podcast Extra Selections: Naima recommends Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations Geoffrey recommends the Swedish fantasy film Border and movie Leave No Trace Stephanie recommends the following Kate Atkinson 'Jackson Brodie' novels: One Good Turn, Case Histories, Started Early Took My Dog, When Will There Be Good News, Big Sky Tom recommends the Jon Ronson podcast 'The Last Days of August'

Consciousness and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, a life defined by books and reading with Caro Llewellyn, writing Irish police procedurals in Perth with Dervla McTiernan, and a longtime fan of Joanne Harris reviews her latest novel.

This is an unscripted, unedited episode where I chat a bit about what's been going on in writing this week. I talk about Ian McEwan's comments about his new novel, MACHINES LIKE ME, and literary fiction authors crossing over to science fiction. I also talk about the controversy surrounding John Boyne's new YA novel, MY BROTHER'S NAME IS JESSICA, where he attempts to write about a trans character through the eyes of her younger brother, and the objections raised by trans writers and readers about his handling of it. I use both of these as a stepping off point to again return to the topic of who gets to write what. I share my thoughts on it, the tricky notion of 'authenticity', and the reasons why the whole thing matters. If you'd like to support me, the podcast and all the things I'm putting out into the world, if you like what I do and would like me to do more of it, and if you'd like to be the first to read my brand new novel, please help me by pre-ordering a copy of THE ICE HOUSE. It's got an old lady pulled out of retirement for one last job, a 400-year-old forensic pathologist field medic battle nun looking to bring down an empire, psychedelics, dungeon crawls, jungle adventures, a locked-room murder mystery, intrigue, romance, minotaurs, a secret testing facility, giant sentient beetles, immortal mutant aristocrats, knife fights, an angel, larceny and ancient menaces rising from the depths. You're going to dig it and it helps me so much. Here are some places you can order now: Mr B's Emporium are an indie bookstore who deliver worldwide - I'll sign all pre-ordered copies from here: mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-ice-house/ Wordery: https://wordery.com/the-ice-house-tim-clare-9781786894816#oid=1908_1 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-House-Tim-Clare/dp/1786894815/ Or ask at your local bricks and mortar bookshop. If you'd like to read a story about a 13 year old girl investigating a secret society in 1930s Norfolk, grab a copy of my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1 If you'd like to sign up to my free Weekly Writing Workout, here's the sign up form: eepurl.com/gbmfcP Here's my author page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/timclarepoet/ Here's my Twitter page: twitter.com/TimClarePoet And here's my website where you can submit your first pages or just get in touch and say hello: www.timclarepoet.co.uk And if you'd like to support the podcast, here's my Ko-fi page: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

The novelist discusses his new book Machines Like Me with the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). His most recent novel is Machines Like Me (http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Like-Me-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385545118?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ6DR67ZTZ3XJCIHQ&tag=edgeorg-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0385545118). Ian McEwan's Edge Bio Page (www.edge.org/memberbio/ian_mcewan)