Many years ago I read a book about artificial intelligence, which I have not been able to track down. Google doesn’t seem to help.<\/p>\n
The book itself was ok, but what I really loved was the dedication at the beginning. Ostensibly the book was written for the author’s fellow humans, yet at the very start he put in a little shout out to a certain hypothetical non-human future reader.<\/p>\n
Here is what was written on the dedication page, in its entirety:<\/p>\n
\n“This book is dedicated to the first machine that understands the gesture.”
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