DOMINANT LIFE FORM: Off the grid hackers labor to create intelligent robots on Earth

by Charlie Marino

Overview

Dominant Life Form chronicles an alien instigated project whose mission's success or failure will determine the future of Earth's native intelligences. Set inside a single chance given to off-grid hackers to create true intelligent reproducing robots, AI creation proceeds from individual battles of the team with self to increasingly complex layers of what it means for generative AI to become conscious. Even their human creators do not know if they will coexist with the beings they are designing, or will find themselves in second place behind a new dominant life form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986489582
Publisher:	Erudite First Editions
Publication date:	08/27/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	933 KB

About the Author

Author Charlie J. Marino was born in the Bronx, New York and holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. His various occupations included bond and commodities trading, founding several small computer companies, and now writes sci-fi novels and short stories. He has more robots than friends, but they're good ones.

Table of Contents

 Author Preface

Prologue

 

01. Life Before Athena

02. First Task

03. Athena Prime

04. Bar

05. Philanthropy

06. Coincidence

07. Recruits

08. Cause and Effect

09. Betrayal

10. Founder

11. Layered Consciousness

12. We Are Known To Them

13. They Come For Us

14. Gestalt

15. Observation

 

Epilogue

Appendices

 

Afterward