I read a book series by William Hertling some number of years ago, about
Avogadro Corp., a company that reminds me of Google, that had created a
massive email database so large that it started to think for itself. It
started to 'protect' itself by sending false emails to corporate heads,
acting as other heads, asking for off-shore protected locations for its
hardware, and eventually creating armed robotic entities to guard those
sites.
It was a fascinating read, and ended up with a four-book series that I
found quite interesting.
Do a Google search for "Avogadro science fiction book series"
73,
-- Dave, N8SBE, Hamshack Hotline RIP, HamsOverIP 101018, AmateurWire
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On 2025-10-18 23:52, Dave (NK7Z) via Elecraft wrote:
Don't forget the movie...
73, and thanks,
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On 10/18/25 17:23, Art Peters via Elecraft wrote:
Colossus, now that is a series of books from the past…
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On Oct 18, 2025, at 7:07 PM, KJ7SOY via Elecraft
<[email protected]> wrote:
D.F. Jones wrote at length about a religion predicated on an AI as
God in the “Colossus” trilogy in the 1960’s, as have many other
authors. Mrs. Davis is nothing new. Just the latest in a long line.
73, Adrian
K7RJS
On Oct 18, 2025, at 3:39 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft
<[email protected]> wrote:
"It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it."
That's already happening too. I recently saw the results of a poll
that said roughly 30% ... of those polled ... believe that the AI
Chatbots are an appropriate partner for a relationship, and some
take that as far as the relationship being romantic. I don't think
it is too far away that somebody tries to build a religion around
AI, and in fact the series "Mrs. Davis" (which is actually a really
fun show to watch ... streaming on Peacock) already uses that as its
major premise.
I'm a big supporter of AI, but the problem with AI is humans, not AI
itself ... at least not so far since AI is yet to become sentient.
By the way, my own "Turing" criteria for when AI becomes sentient to
the level of humans is when it intentionally causes harm on its own
just because it can.
Dave AB7E
On 10/18/2025 3:06 PM, Jeff KQ4CMA wrote:
On Oct 18, 2025, at 4:17 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft
<[email protected]> wrote:
I think I could argue that there is some evidence of that already
... AI notwithstanding.
Exactly. It fits the trend so cleanly that it’s a natural, even
invisible transition. It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it.
Jeff KQ4CMA
On 10/18/2025 12:39 PM, Michael Carter via Elecraft wrote:
This article describing studies of the influence of AI tools on
human learning begs the question: if humans rein in their
independent, creative thought processes for the expedience/speed
of AI, and future AI models are trained on the corpus of
collective human wisdom, is there a death spiral of societal
knowledge into whirlpools of utter ignorance?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology
73,
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