ArtificialIntelligence

#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

Loved this book! There were no true cliffhangers; however, there were a few loose ends I would love to have explored in another book.

BookmarkTavern Gotta love a solid ending, with enough loose ends to tease a sequel! Thanks for sharing! 2w

RamsFan1963 McAulty has a new book coming out called The Ghosts of Navy Pier, that takes place in the same universe as The Robots of Gotham, but I don't know if it's a direct sequel. 2w

TheSpineView @RamsFan1963 That's good news. Do you know the expected pub date? 2w

RamsFan1963 @TheSpineView TBD 2025, sadly no precise date yet. 2w

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vlwelser

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines | Joy Buolamwini

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This one was super interesting. It is about bias in AI. How it happened and why it matters. I saw the author at the MA Women's Conference.

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catsuit_mango

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark

Let s the 10 days of reading by the river begin :)

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The_Penniless_Author

Singularity | Dino Buzzati

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. I'm a published author who makes no money off his books. ? (Well, technically not "no money". I suppose I should be The Hundredaire Author. ?)

2. I've never listened to an audiobook. I do listen to the podcast Backlisted when I'm on the treadmill, though.

3. The Singularity (tagged)

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @IuliaC @Yuki_Onna @CBee @BarbaraBB @dabbe @Ruthiella @IndoorDame @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

Eggs I loved True North 🧭 2mo

The_Penniless_Author @Eggs Thanks! It sold fine for a book put out by a small press with no marketing budget. Since this is a hobby for me rather than a living, I usually sink every penny I make into purchasing ads or review copies. I would much rather sell 500 copies and break even than sell 300 and make money out of it. 🙂 2mo

dabbe @Eggs #metoo! 🤩 2mo

dabbe Will do; thanks for the tag! 🤗 2mo

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The_Penniless_Author

Singularity | Dino Buzzati

so-so

Between so-so and a soft pick (the cover alone deserves a pick). A short book (only around 120 pages) designed to illustrate an idea, it gets bonus points for exploring the ramifications of AI way back in 1960. (Out of curiosity I checked, and it seems the tech definition of "the singularity" was coined just a couple years earlier.) Unfortunately, the writing was sort of stilted and the characters two-dimensional. Not sure how much was the ?

The_Penniless_Author ...the translation and how much the writing itself, but it is indicative of a certain type of sci-fi. I really did enjoy it, though, and the length plays to the book's strengths and makes it easy to forgive the roteness of some of language. Certainly, a much more interesting vision of AI than the glorified chatbots hallucinating fake court cases and historical events we got in real life! 2mo

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451Degrees

Klara and the Sun: A novel | Kazuo Ishiguro

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Klara, an artificial friend, is chosen by the young girl Josie to be her companion. Klara soon learns the ins and outs of Josie's life especially since she is often ill. Being solar powered herself Klara enlists the sun's help to heal Josie. A tricky read as this is set in the perspective of the AF so you are learning what things are and her interpretation of events instead of them being literally drawn out for you which I liked.

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Robotswithpersonality

Speak: A Novel | Louisa Hall

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Beautiful writing, sad subject matter.
Apt for a literary sci fi novel focused on memory,
the format is a mix of epistolary and diary entries, told from a number of voices throughout history.
(Did a tandem read, can highly recommend the full cast audiobook.)
1/? [Gonna be a long one]

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The inclusion of robots/machine intelligence is more a framework to other discussions, but the narrative does involve a possible future wrought by humans who create and interact with robots with varying degrees of human-like capacity. Much about transitional periods, regrets.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/? Much about transitional periods, regrets.
Focus on relationships, not simply communication gaps but the mistakes made when people build the wrong vision of the person they thought they were building a relationship with and the resulting fall out, reflecting on loss. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Characters also reflect on their own flaws to a greater or lesser degree, though in Turing's and Bradford's case the flaw feels more in the historical period, the society they were living in, than themselves.
I feel I should point out three things: 5mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? 1) There's at least one real historical figure (Alan Turing, not sure about Mary Bradford) who's intimate correspondence the book suggests we are reading. On the off chance that makes you feel as uncomfortable as it does me, be forewarned.
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Robotswithpersonality 6/? 2) Part of the relationships and character flaws discussed are two sets of wives putting up with arrogant shitty husbands who either realize their many mistakes too late or are only exposed in the spouse's rebuttal. Again, if that's likely to make your blood boil, be aware. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? 3) The 1600s narrative involves the wedding of a 13 year old girl to what I gather from his military history is an adult man. At no point in the course of the narrative does she do anything more than hold hands with her new husband. In case you get to chapter five, had an immediate case of the heebie jeebies, and wanted reassurances on that front. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/9 Taking a peek at Hall's backlist, the preponderance of literary novels -contemporary or historical - makes sense, but I think the sci fi elements in this book were what tied it all together for me. If she ventures into this particular genre mashup again, I'll happily pick up more from her. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 9/9 The strong sense of each character's voice, the seamless carrying forward of various motifs, it was a pleasure to read such writing, even if the content bummed me out a little.

⚠️animal death, homophobia, body dysphoria, non consensual hormonal modification, internalized fatphobia, ableism 5mo

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JMPemberton

Klara and the Sun: A novel | Kazuo Ishiguro

so-so

A good book doesn‘t HAVE to have a resolution or message, but it has to leave the reader with SOMETHING.
The author was trying to describe how human love cannot be replicated, even with the best technology…but the message was too weakly presented to be moving or thought-provoking at all.
The style of writing was good, Klara‘s character was okay, but the rest of the characters were more robotic, flat and emotionless than the robot, ironically.

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Astroneman

La tirannia della farfalla | Frank Schatzing

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Distopic books aren't my type of books.... sorry....

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dabbe #fanofthepan! #betterbooksahead 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

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JMPemberton

Klara and the Sun: A novel | Kazuo Ishiguro

My current read - Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro. I‘m loving it. So far an AF (Artificial Friend) is waiting in the shop window, observing the humans in the outside world and hoping someone buys her to take home. It looks to be a story about what it is to be human, and how humans love and interact with each other. Taken from the unique perspective of a robot built to assist and be a companion for humans.

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