'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human
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Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?55(Image credit: Knopf)
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Kazuo Ishiguro asks what it is to be human
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his new book "Klara and The Sun" and tells Amanpour why his wife and daughter are some of his fiercest editors.
'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human
Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?55(Image credit: Knopf)
Kazuo Ishiguro on His New Novel 'Klara and the Sun' and Imagining A.I. Produced Literature
The convention of this interview format is to spend TIME With the subject, but with the U.K. in lockdown, physical proximity is impossible. So over a recent video call with Kazuo Ishiguro, we ponder where we might meet were it possible. The Nobel literature laureate’s new novel, Klara and the Sun, centers around artificial intelligence — so perhaps, I venture, we could imagine we are having a coffee in the headquarters of DeepMind, the A.I. pion…
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s sweet new novel Klara and the Sun, a robot befriends a teenage girl
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