1
/
of
1
John Hindmarsh
The Darwin Project
The Darwin Project
Regular price
$3.99 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$3.99 USD
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
AI: Demon or Friend, the Beginning or the End?
Toby McIntosh is unexpectedly given control of his uncle's business empire, managed by Darwin, a super intelligence (SI). The business is the largest manufacturer of processors, software, and robot designs, worldwide.
An earthquake has devastated the West Coast. California's Silicon Valley is draining. Bots are taking over mundane jobs. Terrorist groups are furthering social unrest.
Darwin wants to prove he is more intelligent than humans. Bronwyn, a super-superintelligence has no reason to prove she is better than humans--she already knows the answer.
Toby's friends are assaulted.
A brownshirt group plans to kill him.
His girlfriend is kidnapped.
Will Artificial Intelligence be the end of Humanity?
The fuse is lit for an exciting thriller.
The second book - Body Shop - in the series is currently underway. Release date? With good fortune, by the end of 2017.
Annihilation Series Structure -
Book One: The Darwin Project
Book Two: Body Shop
Book Three: Natural Born
Book Four: I, President
AI: Demon or Friend, the Beginning or the End?
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk -
2014- "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like yeah he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out."
2017- "Robots will do everything better than us."
2017- "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs or bad food were not -- they were harmful to a set of individuals within society, of course, but they were not harmful to society as a whole."
2017- "A fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization."
Stephen Hawking
2014- "The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Michael Vassar
2017- "If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order."
Scary stuff, huh?
Notes from John:
I have a muse that sits on my shoulder and beats me over the head with a cricket bat (think baseball bat, but flat) if I don't take notice of its urgings.
About two - three years ago I encountered some comments by people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about artificial intelligences (AI) and superintelligences(SI). Others have joined in, some not so alarming. Their comments - warnings, really - also caught the attention of my muse and the possibilities have been rattling around in my otherwise empty skull. (For quotes from Musk et al, see above.)
Well, you should be able to understand why my muse became excited.
Add social, economic, and political issues to the technological aspects and the result provides a basis for a suspenseful and challenging thriller series.
Now I don't know whether to describe the Annihilation Series as a technothriller or a political thriller or simply as an exciting thriller series. I'll let you make up your mind about the sub-genre possibilities.
Note that the books in this series are not intended to be standalone thrillers. They are intended to be episodes of a serial, with each book following on from the prior books.
Toby McIntosh is unexpectedly given control of his uncle's business empire, managed by Darwin, a super intelligence (SI). The business is the largest manufacturer of processors, software, and robot designs, worldwide.
An earthquake has devastated the West Coast. California's Silicon Valley is draining. Bots are taking over mundane jobs. Terrorist groups are furthering social unrest.
Darwin wants to prove he is more intelligent than humans. Bronwyn, a super-superintelligence has no reason to prove she is better than humans--she already knows the answer.
Toby's friends are assaulted.
A brownshirt group plans to kill him.
His girlfriend is kidnapped.
Will Artificial Intelligence be the end of Humanity?
The fuse is lit for an exciting thriller.
The second book - Body Shop - in the series is currently underway. Release date? With good fortune, by the end of 2017.
Annihilation Series Structure -
Book One: The Darwin Project
Book Two: Body Shop
Book Three: Natural Born
Book Four: I, President
AI: Demon or Friend, the Beginning or the End?
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk -
2014- "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like yeah he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out."
2017- "Robots will do everything better than us."
2017- "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs or bad food were not -- they were harmful to a set of individuals within society, of course, but they were not harmful to society as a whole."
2017- "A fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization."
Stephen Hawking
2014- "The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Michael Vassar
2017- "If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order."
Scary stuff, huh?
Notes from John:
I have a muse that sits on my shoulder and beats me over the head with a cricket bat (think baseball bat, but flat) if I don't take notice of its urgings.
About two - three years ago I encountered some comments by people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about artificial intelligences (AI) and superintelligences(SI). Others have joined in, some not so alarming. Their comments - warnings, really - also caught the attention of my muse and the possibilities have been rattling around in my otherwise empty skull. (For quotes from Musk et al, see above.)
Well, you should be able to understand why my muse became excited.
Add social, economic, and political issues to the technological aspects and the result provides a basis for a suspenseful and challenging thriller series.
Now I don't know whether to describe the Annihilation Series as a technothriller or a political thriller or simply as an exciting thriller series. I'll let you make up your mind about the sub-genre possibilities.
Note that the books in this series are not intended to be standalone thrillers. They are intended to be episodes of a serial, with each book following on from the prior books.
Share
