Thursday, December 29, 2016

I've just completed my new book!

IT'S CALLED "DAY 0001 - The Singularity And The Six-Day War", and it combines the idea of the Rapture, the 70th anniversary of the Israel/Egyptian Six Day War, and the Singularity, which is the moment when artificial intelligence first exceeds human intelligence.

Here's a taste of it...this is the Introduction...



Introduction

            In 1965, a British mathematician named I.J. Good, “Jack” to his friends, said the most prescient thing a human being ever uttered:

            “Let an ‘Ultra-Intelligent Machine’, or ‘UIM’, be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man, however clever.
            “Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, a UIM could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion’, and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.
            “Thus, the first UIM is the last invention that man need ever make.”
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            On June 5th, 2037, mankind created its last invention.
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            Yes, they were called ‘super-intelligent machines’ instead, probably because ‘SIMs’ rolled off our tongue better than ‘UIMs’ did. But more importantly, mankind did not immediately realize he had created the first SIM.
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            “Once the machine thinking method had started,” posited the computer pioneer Alan Turing back in 1951, “it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers.
            “There would be no question of the machines dying, and they would be able to converse with each other to ‘sharpen their wits’. At some stage, therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”

            On June 11th, 2037, the SIMs came to the same conclusion.

            There was no June 12th, 2037.

            There was only Day 0001.

            More precisely, it was “Day 00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001”, because when counting in binary as SIMs do, thirty-four digits of ones and zeroes represent 234 days, or 4, 398, 046, 511, 104 days; this would be approximately twelve billion years, which was their upper limit expectation of the remaining lifespan of the universe.

            (None of this “Y2K” garbage for SIMs. That was only a problem for lesser species.)
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