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Growing up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps (Hardcover)
by Steve Grand (Author) "The first time I created life I did it the easy way ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (8 Jan 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0297607332
ISBN-13: 978-0297607335
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 171,265 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"cheerfully self-deprecating but hugely inspiring."

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"Growing up with Lucy takes the reader through Grand's work to date. He relates the pleasures and frustrations of working from home on a shoestring budget and explains his ideas about how the human brain functions... Grand's engaging style always carries you along. And Lucy is a fascinating project." (NEW SCIENTIST )

"Growing up with Lucy is a long and chatty newsletter from the friendliest artificial intelligence researcher you could wish to meet." (Graham Farmelo THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

"Fiercely dedicated and passionate about his subject... essential reading." (FOCUS )

"never less than interesting" (BRYAN APPLEYARD NEW STATESMAN )

"cheerfully self-deprecating but hugely inspiring." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

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Episode 2 of How to Make Life, 20 Feb 2004

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Steve's goal is to build an intelligent android inspired by his understanding of the human brain. This book is the story so far of the creation of Lucy the robot (named for the famous fossil hominid). It's an experiment to circumvent what Steve sees as an impasse in current progress in AI which he describes as being 'stuck halfway up a dead end creek without a paddle'. Now Steve is not a neurologist, or a biologist, nor even an electrical engineer. He describes himself as a ‘non-disciplinary’ thinker. He's an ex-schoolteacher and a computer game designer, admittedly one so renowned for his advanced thinking that he received the OBE in acknowledgement of his work. The game he made is called 'Creatures' and represents a pea