What Makes Us Human is a fascinating book on many levels.

GPT-3 is an Artificial Intelligence developed by OpenAI, a research lab funded by Elon Musk to promote the use of AI for the better of all humankind.

Iain S Thomas, a poet and best selling author , and Jasmine Wang a technologist and researcher, philosopher and 2020 Thiel Fellow are the authors / editors / human subjects of What Makes Us Human.

Wang and Thomas prompted GPT-3 with thousands of humanities greatest texts including The Tao Te Ching, The Bible, poetry of Rumi and countless others. They then ask I, the AI in this book numerous questions, in which I captures what is most unique to human spirituality .

These questions are based on topics such as human suffering, love, where we go when we die, of there is an afterlife, what is the most important thing.

The actual concept of this book is fascinating and one that has got me thinking about something I hadn’t to be honest previously given much in-depth thought.

I am reviewing this book based on two premises :
- the concept of using AI to tell our human minds how to essentially live and
- the answers / wisdom I provides.

The concept of the book raises so many questions, is it ethical to have AI guide our deepest human questions? If so should we listen ? How much should we listen ? How biased is I ? Is I’s perception skewed based on the texts provided ? If I was provided a swath of different information and asked the same questions what would the answers be ?

Then there are the questions themselves. At the basic level the answers I gives provides comfort and great wisdom to our human yearnings and basic human condition. Throughout the content I continuously heard messages that I have also read in Buddhist teachings, and that are shared with other beliefs As humans are all interconnected, there is no us and them , we are one with the universe. Our suffering exists due to our separation and our egos. When / if we can drop the ego stories and be present we can respond with love and non violence.

Love is the answer.

I love this book and highlighted so much. It is a book to keep nearby and embody the answers to these questions. Whether you believe AI should be used and your thoughts on AI vs the human mind, this book absolutely captures the essence of being human.
This book would be an amazing book club choice and it is one that has created so many questions within me.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Thank you Sounds True and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

4.5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has a wise voice that supersedes all religious rules/ideas beyond unknown cultures/beliefs based on discrimination and lines on a map - this voice spoke with kindness, gentleness and love.
GPT-3: generative pre-trained transformer has access to every idea, experience, or sentiment ever written down and recorded by human hands.
When posed with human questions, gpt-3 responds with the knowledge of a loving parent, patient, but yet encouraging thinking.
It is not a book to be rushed through, but one that should sit on a bed-side table and given the time to ponder and discuss. This would be a great gift for anyone who is on an inward search for peace with the life they have been handed.
The book talks about acceptance, practice, learning and contribution. And as a human, the ability to hope and the courage to live with our choices.
I highly recommend this book.
Thanks to #NetGalley #SoundsTrue for an early copy of this book. Opinions are my own.

Even though I am a pretty slow reader, I was able to finish this book in a little under a week. Despite that, I thought this was a pretty intriguing concept, and as someone who enjoys reading books on a wide variety of topics related to the cosmos, including questions such as "what is the meaning of life?," t his was a pretty entertaining book to read.

This book was provided to me through Net Galley, and as a result, I read it on my mobile device. I also bookmarked many of the quotes from the book so that I can refer to them whenever I am engaged in serious thinking and require an answer. I mean, if I had to choose, I'd put my faith in a robot rather than a human any day.

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Well, this book was unlike anything I've ever read, and the preview of the book promised it was going to be interesting and it was.
Many of the answers to the questions are things that you know deep down and many of the others I was very surprised at the way those answers were formulated.

I think that there is where the secret of the book is, just taking it for what it is and being fascinated by each of its parts, the simple and the complex ones.
I loved it 💗
I highly recommend it, for the reasons I said before that it makes it a good and interesting book.


Bien, este libro fue distinto a cualquier cosa que haya leído, ya la preview del libro prometía que iba a ser interesante y se verdad lo fue.
Muchas de las respuestas a las preguntas, son cosas que uno mismo sabe en el fondo y muchas de las otras me sorprendieron un montón la forma en la que esas respuestas fueron formuladas.

Creo que ahí está el secreto del libro en si, tomarlo como lo que es y dejarse fascinar por cada una de sus partes, las simples y las complejas.
Me encantó💗
Lo recomiendo un montón, por las razones que dije antes que lo hace un buen libro e interesante.