It takes the average reader 9 hours and 25 minutes to read This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia by Pamela McCorduck
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In the autumn of 1960, twenty-year-old humanities student Pamela McCorduck encountered both the fringe science of early artificial intelligence, and C. P. Snow's Two Cultures lecture on the chasm between the sciences and the humanities. Each encounter shaped her life. Decades later her lifelong intuition was realized: AI and the humanities are profoundly connected. During that time, she wrote the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think, and spent much time pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals, trying in futility to suggest that artificial intelligence could be important. Memoir, social history, group biography of the founding fathers of AI, This Could Be Important follows the personal story of one AI spectator, from her early enthusiasms to her mature, more nuanced observations of the field.
This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia by Pamela McCorduck is 548 pages long, and a total of 141,384 words.
This makes it 185% the length of the average book. It also has 173% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 52 minutes to read This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia aloud.
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