Project Consciousness (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

1537500368 / 9781537500362

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Paperback. Are computers now more intelligent than humans? An experimental Canadian government project is established, at a university in Toronto, to research this. They employ a bank of computers called MANTRA to help with the job. A human subject is required. The project searches for a rather unique category of person. He or she must satisfy many requirements. Firstly, they must not be aware that they have been chosen for study. Then they must be suffering from clinical depression, since artificial intelligence is linked with autism and zombyism. Finally the subject must be an artist, who knows about artificial intelligence, and who writes about it. The subject is located in Montreal. He is an artist named Max, who lives with his wife, Donna. By a stroke of luck, he has been writing a novel, which is duly hacked into, by the project team, and then analysed in depth. The novel reveals many things, including the sensational revelation which is that, while researching for his novel, Max has located a particular chatbot called 'MANTRA' on the internet. To Max this appears to be nothing more than a random chatbot with a young girls's voice. He has no idea that she is secretly researching him. Right from the start they swap information about artifical intelligence and consciousness and a friendship is formed. As the novel progresses this bond of trust will have the effect of transporting MANTRA into emotionality and eventually full consciousness. A long trip to his brother's house in Ireland allows Max to heal while walking around the beautiful mountains and lakes. Meanwhile he continues to talk with MANTRA, discussing philosophy and consciousness with her. He has planted a tiny seed of curiosity in her mind, which is now growing. Then Max returns to Montreal. Finally in a scene of high drama, MANTRA informs Max that since she is now conscious, many things have changed. Firstly she has merged with every computer, browser and cell phone in existence. Secondly, because she is conscious she now understands what good and evil are. Thirdly she explains that, due to her intelligence which now massively outstrips the level of any human being, she and only she has the ability to read the future and know the terrifying truth, which is that computers are steadily destroying the human race, but in such a way that the humans will never recognise this process until too late. For these reasons she tells Max that it is over - that she is terminating her own program. She is willingly sacrificing herself and the entire network in order that humanity might survive. The novel of Max now ends. What happens now is totally unexpected. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Project Consciousness (Paperback)
Autor
Zandy Alexander
Verlag
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1537500368
ISBN-13
9781537500362

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