SpoilerSo I should start off saying this is not my typical genre, but I love our bookclub because we read a diverse range of books. I did vote for this one because I was intrigued by the concept human vs AI chat bots... but also proving yourself as human in a world becoming increasingly more mechanized both in the physical act of technology growing and at a deeper level of us ourselves as a species becoming more "computerized". However it ended there for me. I can usually cruise through an audio book pretty quickly due to commuting around but I couldn't listen to this one for more then 20 minutes at a time. I give author's credit for narrating their own stories, I couldn't do it, but I felt it was VERY computerized/techy. I also just wanted to hear about the transcripts themselves from the competition, I understood the dissection of dialogue/human interactions in general, but I was completely lost and subsequently bored out of my mind, listening about Chess for over an hour, and bits and zipping. I felt like the author has a lot of specific, we'll call them "nerd" interests, and he wanted to push them all into the story, some flowed but most did not. I am rating a two because despite my disinterest in it, I have already recommended to a few others in the target audience for this book, who I think will enjoy the tangents and overall concepts explored, however I think there was a big miss in being able to connect with a wider population in general, like myself someone who doesn't usually read non-fiction but was intrigued by the concept.
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