Where to start?
No need to have read any philosophy.
It is enough to have wondered what a machine really understands, or what will be left for us to do. Here is a path in five steps, a few minutes each.
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Step 1 · 3 min
Choose a question
The whole site comes down to four questions. Pick the one that speaks to you most, without overthinking it: it is usually the right door.
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Step 2 · 5 min
Read a short essay
An essay does not give an answer: it circles a question to bring it into focus. Start with the most concrete one, about what we will never want to hand over to a machine.
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Step 3 · 2 min
Play: human or machine?
A short text, a single question: who wrote it? You vote; we will never tell you the answer. It is the simplest way to feel what is at stake.
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Step 4 · 3 min
Learn a word
When a word stops you, the glossary explains it in a few lines, with examples. The first one to know: the Turing test.
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Step 5 · 10 min
Read a great text
To go further, the library presents the founding texts in plain words. Turing’s, written in 1950, still reads like a conversation.
And then?
Come back whenever you like. This site is not trying to convince you: it asks questions, and leaves the answers to you.