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do. In his novels, he imagines AIs as having a human body in which the consciousness is connected to or replaced by an AI-like technology. His view resonated with Martin
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has been deemed as Dung's most-strikingly experimental works with the attempt of trying to renegotiate the relationship between man and machines. With the novel's focus on AI, Dung believes that one day they might outnumber the human population and actually replace humans by being better at what they
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