The scene in Greg Bear's "Queen of Angels" where Jill awakens to sentience
is one of very few scenes in any book I've read that has repeatedly - not
just on the first reading - brought tears to my eyes.
My copy of the book has Greg Bear's autograph on that page. Wish me luck,
folks.
--
Elieze
Title: Message
Hi;
Doing an MSc at U of
Liverpool on Ontological web and info discovery, an quite the neophite on the
topic,
was wondering if any
of you have seen any works regarding an inference model based on the tree of
life
as in "the
sephiroth" ?
Regards
Gus
Constan
About
AI in SF...
The story "GOLEM
XIV" by Stanislaw Lem (not really a story, but a
fictional construction), in the book "Imaginary Magnitude", is an absolute
must-read for anyone interested in futuristic aspects of AI. What an
incredible conceptual masterwork !!! So hilarious and so
cosmodelia:
Perhaps the most interesting recent (relatively)
novels featuring IA, with a healthy dose of warning about the dangers of
the said tech, is the long, but definitely worth reading, four-book set by Dan
Simmons: /Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of
Endymion\
Hey Kevin,
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hey cosmodelic one,
As you read further in the series, you'll find that Jane didn't
exactly just *emerge*; she was created -- although she did grow into something
very different from her originally-created form. (Sorry to spoil an
element of the plot for you ;)
But Jane is an interesti
