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"True love, virtual sex": Review of Turing: A Novel about Computation, by Christos Papadimitriou. Reviewed by David Langford. New Scientist, 18 October 2003, page 53.

The reviewer seems not to have liked this book, which features an artificial intelligence version of the mathematician Alan Turing. The review sums up the book this way: "Implausible characters, familiar [science fiction] ideas and engaging information dumps that never go quite deep enough."

--- Allyn Jackson

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