Infinity Born

In the near future, the world's foremost genius makes astonishing new advances in science - and destroys a city and murders his family. I enjoy the afterword, where the author discusses how the science-fiction of the novel was based on fact.

Fun read with accurate portrayal of current or near current tech.

As with most of [a:Douglas E. Richards 374164 Douglas E. Richards https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1333464416p2/374164.jpg] books, this reads like a novel as written by an engineer. Having said that, I really like his stuff and will buy and read anything he publishes.

This is near science fiction postulating on the consequences of the birth of Artificial General Intelligence (computer-based intelligence equivalent to human intelligence) and how this will probably be a very short term step on the path to Artificial Super Intelligence at which point humans are no longer the ruling species.

Nicely formulated exploration of this playing out shaped as a thriller.

I generally feel somewhat dirty when reading thrillers. The genre as a whole is generally targeted at the lowest common denominator of the reading public. But this book redeems itself with ideas that are thought provoking and relevant to our times.