Colossus
Colossus Trilogy Series, Book 1
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Colossus
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Narrated by:
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P.J. Ochlan
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Written by:
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D. F. Jones
Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavors in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defense system.
Colossus is a supercomputer capable of taking in and analyzing data rapidly, allowing it to make real-time decisions about the nation's defense.
But Colossus soon exceeds even Forbin's calculated expectations, learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office, processing data over 100 times faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated.
The President hands off full control of the nation's missiles and other defense protocols to Colossus and makes the announcement to the world that he has ensured peace.
However, the USSR quickly announces that it too has a supercomputer, Guardian, with capabilities similar to that of Colossus.
Forbin is concerned when Colossus asks - asks - to communicate with Guardian.
The computer he built shouldn't be able to ask at all.
©1966 D. F. Jones (P)2017 TantorContinue the series
I found the story really worth a listen and the reading was well-done...the producer has an excellent grasp of nuances of emotion, regional accents, and changing from male to female intonation with no problem.
The one thing this audible book handles well is the growing anxiety of the humans involved as they grow to realize that their control of Collussus is, even from the first day, extremely tenuous.
Now that I know it's part of a trilogy, I believe I will check out the remaining two titles.
An early cautionary tale about AI running amok.
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