TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurzweil,Amy
TI  - Artificial: a love story 
SN  - 1948226383
AV  - PN6727.K89 A78 2023
U1  - 741.5/973B 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Catapult
KW  - Kurzweil, Frederic
KW  - Kurzweil, Ray
KW  - Kurzweil, Amy
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Artists
KW  - Pianists
KW  - Jews, Austrian
KW  - United States
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Families
KW  - Inventeurs
KW  - Bandes dessinées
KW  - Artistes
KW  - Pianistes
KW  - Juifs autrichiens
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Intelligence artificielle
KW  - Familles
KW  - COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
KW  - COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Dirk Ippen Fellow
KW  - Class of Fall 2020
KW  - Class of Fall 2021
KW  - Written at the Academy
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - fast
KW  - Autobiographical comics
KW  - Biographical comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bandes dessinées autobiographiques
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Bandes dessinées biographiques
N1  - Pattern recognition -- Immortal virtue -- How do you know? -- To eat and drink -- Heartstrings -- Through the looking glass -- Exponential growth -- Con espressione e semplice
N2  - A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to - and hold - our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In this book, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father, Fredric, an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. Once, Fred's life was saved by his art: an American benefactor, impressed by Fred's musical genius, sponsored his emigration to the United States. He escaped just one month before Kristallnacht. Now, Fred has returned. Through AI and salvaged writing, Ray is building a chatbot that writes in Fred's voice, and he enlists his daughter, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, to help him ensure the immortality of their family's fraught inheritance. Amy's deepening understanding of her family's traumatic uprooting resonates with the creative life she fights to claim in the present, as Amy and her partner, Jacob, chase jobs, and each other, across the country. Kurzweil evokes an understanding of accomplishment that centers conversation and connection, knowing and being known by others. With the cartoonist's signature humanity and humor, in boundary-pushing, gorgeous handmade drawings, this book guides readers through nuanced questions about art, memory, and technology, demonstrating that love, a process of focused attention, is what grounds a meaningful life. --
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