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What would happen if robots became self-aware?
may have the answer to that question.
MIT graduate Gordon Wysmann remembers when Eliza, the first computer program simulating natural communication between a machine and a human, was created. That was in 1964. Despite the advances in technology and his experience, Gordon refuses to conduct research that could lead to something greater than Eliza-he knows the consequences.
The young programmers on his team don't.
In their efforts to create a social network that will top all existing ones, the young developers begin to communicate with bots that escaped as the result of a major hack. They start to cross lines that may spell danger not only for themselves but also human civilization. Have these young upstarts done what Gordon has always feared-and that he now can't stop? Have they triggered a technological growth they can no longer control-and that now controls them?
Written by a computer engineer with more than thirty years of experience,
is a realistic tale that imagines what could happen in the event of a singularity-and if artificial intelligence takes over.
According to author Joe Zeigler, it's not a question of
...but rather of
.