Infinity Born
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Average rating3.3
When DARPA's billion-dollar program to create artificial superintelligence is sabotaged, US operative Cameron Carr is taked with finidng the culprit. He's been on high-stakes missions before, but this time the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Because the race to evolve a superintelligent computer is on, and power players around the world will stop at nothing to get there first. In the right hands, artificial superintelligence could lift humanity to towering heights. But in the wrong hands, this technology could represent the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.
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As with most of [a:Douglas E. Richards 374164 Douglas E. Richards https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1333464416p2/374164.jpg] books, this reads like a novel as written by an engineer. Having said that, I really like his stuff and will buy and read anything he publishes.
In the near future, the world's foremost genius makes astonishing new advances in science - and destroys a city and murders his family. I enjoy the afterword, where the author discusses how the science-fiction of the novel was based on fact.
This is near science fiction postulating on the consequences of the birth of Artificial General Intelligence (computer-based intelligence equivalent to human intelligence) and how this will probably be a very short term step on the path to Artificial Super Intelligence at which point humans are no longer the ruling species.
Nicely formulated exploration of this playing out shaped as a thriller.
I generally feel somewhat dirty when reading thrillers. The genre as a whole is generally targeted at the lowest common denominator of the reading public. But this book redeems itself with ideas that are thought provoking and relevant to our times.
