Stupid Machine
...On sale during ebook week - March 7th through 13, 2021
Car accidents don’t happen.
The last one was fifty-some years ago,
somewhere around 2050.
Most of my activity on LinkedIn is about the R programming language and Raspberry Pi. It's important to ponder the bigger technology picture, and that's when I write Science Fiction. My writing has been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Stupefying Stories, and I've (finally) published a novel.
...Which makes Jordan Bishop’s fatal crash ...unusual.
I've been thinking about how we build technology. We're organic - technology is silicon. We're squishy humans, built out of meat, and we assume any not-meat intelligence is second-class.
But how do we understand something that is outside our frame of reference.
How should we understand silicon intelligence?
Can a refrigerator solve a murder?.
My novel - Stupid Machine - is a murder mystery solved by a refrigerator. It's not a comedy. I'm seriously proposing a world where kitchen appliances interact with our world in a meaningful way. Only they don't consider themselves appliances.
Daniel H. Wilson writes about robotics - you may have read his novel Robopocalypse. One of his themes is artificial intelligence will probably not be all that interested in interacting with human intelligence. The two intelligences exist apart from each other - and may not even be aware of each other.
There is no requirement that they communicate, or even share a common understanding.
I'm exploring that concept, albeit in a smaller scale.
Stupid Machine on sale at Smashwords from March 7th - 13, 2021
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Author of "Stupid Machine" and educator at LinkedIn learning
4 年Only 3 more days for this special pricing. Then I'm raising the price back to $100!
Chief Technology Officer at LeddarTech
4 年I had the pleasure of reading Mark's novel last summer and thoroughly enjoyed it. In addition to refrigerators (and humans) the list of protagonists includes an autonomous car! It's well worth reading.