Download or read book The Artilect War written by Hugo De Garis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Artilect War written by A.W. Cross and published by Glory Box Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our creation should have saved the world. Instead, we helped destroy it. A new generation of cyborg, they were supposed to calm hostilities between those who created the artilects and those who opposed them. Instead, they were the spark that ignited the Artilect War. They survived—but so did their enemies. Now the very people they’re trying to save are intent on annihilating them. Nonetheless, as long as humanity fights for its survival, so will they. Only, this time, there needs to be a winner—the future of the human race depends on it. I am Ailith, Pantheon Modern Program Omega Cyborg O-117-9791. Your future is in my hands. This volume contains all three Artilect War novels: THE SEEDS OF WINTER Would you become a cyborg just to survive? I did, and it ended the world. Cyborg Ailith woke in the aftermath of the Artilect War to find the modern world destroyed and her kin facing execution. Letting them die is not an option, for humankind will survive only if they do. But to save them, she and Tor must confront old foes—and a self-proclaimed god. THE GARDENER OF MAN Humankind believed we were the enemy. I’m starting to think they were right. The Pantheon cyborgs have found the source of the mysterious signal, and with it, pieces of the past they’d thought lost forever. But everyone has secrets—their creators, their rivals...even their new ally, Fane, whose secret is the most dangerous of all. And when those secrets are exposed, they trigger a chain of events that once again leaves them all fighting for survival. THE HARVEST OF SOULS The time has come to reap what we’ve sowed. Their enemies have joined forces to destroy them—and taken one of their own. When their hunt for allies ends in a deadly confrontation, Ailith and the others must decide how far they’re willing to go to end this war—because if the human race is to survive, committing the unthinkable might be the only solution. If you like dystopian science fiction adventures about cyborgs, artilects, and the future of the human race, you’ll love The Artilect War series!

Download or read book The Artilect War written by Hugo de Garis and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 2005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bitter controversy whether humanity should build godlike massively intelligent machines that might prove to be humanity's exterminators.

Download or read book The Artilect War written by Hugo De Garis and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arondite written by Michael Owen and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a brewing war between Mars and an empire encompassing the moons of Jupiter, three space pirates are thrust into an epic hunt with a resistance group for a godlike Artificial Intelligence that escaped Earth 500 years before, at the time of its destruction. Only the Arondite Chip may help them to locate the Artilect and possibly save the resistance from total annihilation at the hands of multiple cyberphobic governments who would execute anyone for the simplest cybernetic modification under the terms of the Artilect Protocol.

Download or read book Horizon Wars written by Robey Jenkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond today's horizons lie uncountable wars still to be fought by mankind – on battlefields, against foes, and with weapons that can only be imagined. With Horizon Wars, wargamers can bring these future conflicts to the tabletop, no matter their exact vision of the future of warfare. Combining the feel of real-world combat and tactics with versatile and quick-to-learn rules, Horizon Wars is a 6mm company-level game that incorporates ground forces, aircraft and the titans of the battlefield – mechs. Whether you want to pit a handful of mechs against each other in quick clash of patrols, or line up combined-arms forces for a huge battle, the game remains fast-moving and enjoyable. Also included are full rules for building units from the ground up, allowing players to tailor their forces to suit the mission objectives or their figure collections.

Download or read book The Transhumanist Wager written by Zoltan Istvan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, entrepreneur, and former National Geographic and New York Times correspondent Zoltan Istvan presents his visionary novel, The Transhumanist Wager, as a seminal statement of our times. Scorned by over 500 publishers and literary agents around the world, his philosophical thriller has been called "revolutionary" and "socially dangerous" by readers, scholars, and religious authorities. The novel debuts a challenging original philosophy, which rebuffs modern civilization by inviting the end of the human species-and declaring the onset of something greater. Set in the present day, the novel tells the story of transhumanist Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. Fighting against him are fanatical religious groups, economically depressed governments, and mystic Zoe Bach: a dazzling trauma surgeon and the love of his life, whose belief in spirituality and the afterlife is absolute. Exiled from America and reeling from personal tragedy, Knights forges a new nation of willing scientists on the world's largest seasteading project, Transhumania. When the world declares war against the floating city, demanding an end to its renegade and godless transhuman experiments and ambitions, Knights strikes back, leaving the planet forever changed.

Download or read book On the Steel Breeze written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of the Revelation Space series continues his Poseidon's Children saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future... Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice Akinyaand heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars. The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial worlds—holoships—putting their faith in a physics they barely understand. Chiku’s ship is called Zanzibar—and over time, she will discover it contains an awesome secret—one which will lead her to question almost every certainty about her voyage, and its ultimate destiny...

Download or read book Understanding Artificial Intelligence written by Editors of Scientific American and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence.

Download or read book The Seeds of Winter written by A.W. Cross and published by Glory Box Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you become a cyborg just to survive? I did, and it ended the world. In 2040, three factions went to war over the creation of artilects—sentient androids indistinguishable from human beings. Five years later, Ailith wakes to find the Artilect War over and the modern world destroyed. Her only connection to the life she once knew is Tor, a stranger who protected her as she slept. A cyborg. Like her. They believed they were the only ones; they were wrong. Others of their kind are alive—and facing execution. Their deaths must be prevented at all costs, for if they die, humankind will become extinct. But as Ailith and Tor face off against old enemies and a self-proclaimed god, they begin to doubt the true nature of their design. They can trust no one—not even each other, despite the passion that binds them together. Humanity fought a war to annihilate us. Now their future depends on our survival. We are the seed. The Seeds of Winter is the first book in the Artilect War saga. If you like dystopian science fiction with cyborgs, heroines, and a dash of meta, you'll love this series!

Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI written by Markus D. Dubber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments in historical context; at the same time, breaking new ground in taking on novel subjects and pursuing fresh approaches. The term "A.I." is used to refer to a broad range of phenomena, from machine learning and data mining to artificial general intelligence. The recent advent of more sophisticated AI systems, which function with partial or full autonomy and are capable of tasks which require learning and 'intelligence', presents difficult ethical questions, and has drawn concerns from many quarters about individual and societal welfare, democratic decision-making, moral agency, and the prevention of harm. This work ranges from explorations of normative constraints on specific applications of machine learning algorithms today-in everyday medical practice, for instance-to reflections on the (potential) status of AI as a form of consciousness with attendant rights and duties and, more generally still, on the conceptual terms and frameworks necessarily to understand tasks requiring intelligence, whether "human" or "A.I."

Download or read book A Cosmist Manifesto written by Ben Goertzel and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel's "Cosmist Manifesto" gives it new life and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes sense now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its transformative impact as the future unfolds. Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading, immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.

Download or read book Apocalyptic AI written by Robert M. Geraci and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.

Download or read book Solve for Happy written by Mo Gawdat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], applies his superior logic and problem solving skills to understand how the brain processes joy and sadness—and then he solves for happy. In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness. Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier. In Solve for Happy Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths. No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.

Download or read book Parsing the Turing Test written by Robert Epstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive work that represents a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Distinguished psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, and programmers from around the world debate weighty issues such as whether a self-conscious computer would create an internet ‘world mind’. This hugely important volume explores nothing less than the future of the human race itself.

Download or read book The Harvest of Souls written by A.W. Cross and published by Glory Box Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few survived the Artilect War. Those that did, are coming for us. The Program Omega cyborgs left the Mainland to build a future. But now their enemies have joined forces—and taken one of their own. Their only chance to fight back is to find allies, but when their hunt ends in a deadly confrontation, Ailith and the others must decide how far they’re willing to go to end this battle and who might be sacrificed along the way. Because if humankind is to survive, they need to finish what the Artilect War started—even if it means destroying everything they’ve tried to protect. The time has come to reap what we’ve sowed. The Harvest of Souls is the explosive final book of the Artilect War, a series for those who love fast-paced, post-apocalyptic science fiction about cyborgs, artilects, and the future of the human race!

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security written by Roman V. Yampolskiy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of robotics and artificial intelligence in many ways is also the history of humanity’s attempts to control such technologies. From the Golem of Prague to the military robots of modernity, the debate continues as to what degree of independence such entities should have and how to make sure that they do not turn on us, its inventors. Numerous recent advancements in all aspects of research, development and deployment of intelligent systems are well publicized but safety and security issues related to AI are rarely addressed. This book is proposed to mitigate this fundamental problem. It is comprised of chapters from leading AI Safety researchers addressing different aspects of the AI control problem as it relates to the development of safe and secure artificial intelligence. The book is the first edited volume dedicated to addressing challenges of constructing safe and secure advanced machine intelligence. The chapters vary in length and technical content from broad interest opinion essays to highly formalized algorithmic approaches to specific problems. All chapters are self-contained and could be read in any order or skipped without a loss of comprehension.