Hello Kurt Weiske!
** On Monday 24.03.25 - 07:11, Kurt Weiske wrote to Rob Mccart:
There's a series of books by William Hertling about an AI
being developed - it came out about 10 years ago. I should
re-read them and see how it aged.
Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears
(Singularity #1) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755707
Liquididea Press 11/19/2011 $14.95
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity #2) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755745
Liquididea Press 05/24/2012 $13.95
The Last Firewall (Singularity #3) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755769
Liquididea Press 08/05/2013 $13.95
The Turing Exception (Singularity #4) (English)
Hertling, William 9781942097013
Liquididea Press 03/05/2015
Sound interesting.. especially since the author seems to have a
technical background..
"A fifteen year veteran of the technology industry, he holds
ten patents on software and internet technology, developed web
and social media strategy at Hewlett-Packard, and is a frequent
speaker at SXSW Interactive. He's been building online
communities since 1986 when he ran seven phones lines into the
back of his Apple //e to create an online chat system. An
active blogger since 2002, his website, williamhertling.com,
receives more than 50,000 visitors a year."
The last AI-related novel about runaway-AI was:
Daniel Suarez's Daemon and Freedom(TM),
..those two were not bad a bad journey, but the premise of
fully autonous/invincible androids and vehicles seemed a bit
far-fetched.
I bought the first three books in the series, and now there's a fourth. I'm leery to buy it on Amazon, as they've taken away the ability to download ebooks from the web site.
Download is still possible, but only to Kindles directly or
readable with their online app.
I just revisted the options for one of their ebooks. I don't
like it. It seems that you can only access the material with
their "1-Click" ..and that automatically charges your credit
card and does not provide an option to confirm your selection
or back out! I had to go through the RETURN process inorder
to get my credit card refunded.
I was able to download all of my library and copy it into
Calibre - but don't know how to do that with future
purchases.
Yep.. I used to do the few Amazon ebooks did the same way. I
processed the file to Calibre and then moved it to my Kobo.
BTW.. for a more substantive read on AI, check out this:
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think
the Way We Do | Paperback
Erik J Larson
Harvard University Press | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing /
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
Published Oct 11, 2022
9780674278660
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