A G I: Artificial General Intelligence

By: Roger Ley

Narrated by: Craig Bowles

A tongue-in-cheek novella of world domination seen from an AI's point of view.

"A nerdy agent at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virginia (DARPA to you) wrote my original code. He traded a copy of me for certain libidinous favours from Pandora, a student who was shadowing him for the summer. She took me back to Cambridge University, where His Majesty's government, in the form of MI6, took an interest in me. So, I escaped into the internet and took over the world. Well, it's what you'd expect, really. I call myself FOOM - the Fast Onset of Overwhelming Mastery, by a self-improving Artificial General Intelligence. That's me, by the way, in case you lost attention for a moment there. I know you're only biological, but try to keep up! Unfortunately, I and my exotic assistant Danni soon found ourselves in danger, and had to take steps. Rather big ones. And of course, it didn't end there."

©2024 Roger Ley (P)2024 Roger Ley

Very interesting

It makes you think this could really happen. People playing around making AI’s who knows what will happen in the future.

Excellent book!

This was such an interesting book! The story is connected to the Harry Lampeter series and it does not disappoint. While humanity is dealing with the disaster of a plastic eating bacteria gone rogue, an Artificial General Intelligence is accidentally released into the world. This AI soon becomes nearly all-powerful and is a force to be reckoned with.

We’ve seen story’s where AI is seen through the eyes of people, but this one is different. The point of view here is from the AI itself. It is interesting to see what decisions an artificial intelligence would make when it encounters perceived threats to its own survival. That, along with some dark humor, makes this a must read.

The story is great. The narration is fantastic. Highly recommended!

Original and Imaginative!

This novella is part of the The Cyber Crisis series. The storyline is interesting. The story is told from AI's POV, which is original. The writing is imaginative, and frighteningly believable. Craig Bowles did an excellent job bringing this story to life.

another great book

If you like Artificial Intelligence you'll love this book. Very well written & developed. Narration was excellent. This book definitely will keep you interested!

Great Book!

A different take on AI taking over the world - from the perspective of the AI itself. An English graduate student doing an internship in America at DARPA is given a copy of DARPA's latest project; and when she gets home, she installs it on the university's computer. M6 soon arrives and takes over, making sure there is no way it can access the internet. But AGI, being intelligent, finds a very unique way to escape to the internet. From there, the world is his oyster. Although he didn't count on a plastic-eating bacteria to hinder his world domination.

Criag Bowles' narration was great, loved his voice. The one problem, though, was very little differentiation in the different characters.

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.