David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

本书对电脑科学、数学、物理学、宇宙学、神经和精神科学以及哲学进行了广泛、深入浅出的讨论，体现了作者向哲学上最大问题——“精神-身体关系”挑战的大无畏精神。书中充满了天才般的猜测，贯穿着探索真理的灵感和激情。这是一本这者的精心杰作，它阐释科学论题的新方式令人眼前为之一亮。这本巨著重新衡量相对论和量子理论。作者提出他对现代物理及人工智能的新看法，建议人们必须彻底改变时间与空间的观念。本书曾在《纽约时报》的畅销书排行榜上连续许多星期。

This is an eagerly awaited revision of the single bestselling introduction to Artificial Intelligence ever published. It retains the best features of the earlier works including superior readability, currency, and excellence in the selection of the examples.