The book by Kester Brewin
God-like
A 500-year history of Artificial Intelligence in myths, machines, monsters.
In the year 1600 a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that would let him know all things.
350 years later, having witnessed ‘Trinity’, the first test of the atomic bomb, America’s leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on Earth.
25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this ‘machine for augmenting human intellect’, dazzling as he stands ‘Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands.’
AI is both stunningly new and rooted in ancient desires. As we finally welcome this ‘god-like’ technology amongst us, what can we learn from the myths and monsters of the past about how to survive alongside our greatest ever invention?
Paperback · ISBN 978-0-9935628-7-7
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