Subj : books exploring AI
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Mar 24 2025 08:24 pm

Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Monday 24.03.25 - 07:11, Kurt Weiske wrote to Rob Mccart:

 KW> There's a series of books by William Hertling about an AI
 KW> being developed - it came out about 10 years ago. I should
 KW> re-read them and see how it aged.

Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears  
(Singularity #1) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755707
Liquididea Press 11/19/2011 $14.95

A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity #2) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755745
Liquididea Press 05/24/2012 $13.95

The Last Firewall (Singularity #3) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755769
Liquididea Press 08/05/2013 $13.95

The Turing Exception (Singularity #4) (English)
Hertling, William 9781942097013
Liquididea Press 03/05/2015

Sound interesting.. especially since the author seems to have a  
technical background..

"A fifteen year veteran of the technology industry, he holds  
ten patents on software and internet technology, developed web  
and social media strategy at Hewlett-Packard, and is a frequent  
speaker at SXSW Interactive. He's been building online  
communities since 1986 when he ran seven phones lines into the  
back of his Apple //e to create an online chat system. An  
active blogger since 2002, his website, williamhertling.com,  
receives more than 50,000 visitors a year."

The last AI-related novel about runaway-AI was:

Daniel Suarez's Daemon and Freedom(TM),

...those two were not bad a bad journey, but the premise of  
fully autonous/invincible androids and vehicles seemed a bit  
far-fetched.


 KW> I bought the first three books in the series, and now there's a fourth.
 KW> I'm leery to buy it on Amazon, as they've taken away the ability to
 KW> download ebooks from the web site.

Download is still possible, but only to Kindles directly or  
readable with their online app.

I just revisted the options for one of their ebooks. I don't  
like it. It seems that you can only access the material with  
their "1-Click" ..and that automatically charges your credit  
card and does not provide an option to confirm your selection  
or back out!   I had to go through the RETURN process inorder  
to get my credit card refunded.


 KW> I was able to download all of my library and copy it into
 KW> Calibre - but don't know how to do that with future
 KW> purchases.

Yep.. I used to do the few Amazon ebooks did the same way. I  
processed the file to Calibre and then moved it to my Kobo.

BTW.. for a more substantive read on AI, check out this:

 The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think
the Way We Do | Paperback

Erik J Larson

Harvard University Press | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing /
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
Published Oct 11, 2022
9780674278660



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