If you liked #AdrianTchaikovsky 's #AlienClay then you'll like #ChildrenOfStrife
- Same general theme
- Slow to get going but once it gets going it is as good as any of the other books in the series
The Mantis shrimp is going to punch his agent because he can't really act to his full capabilities in a plot that is 99% out of water.
I've started reading "Service Model" by #AdrianTchaikovsky . (Robots!)
Anyhow, you can tell it is pre-LLM sci-fi because the bot sees a sign "Abandon all hope all who E" and the bot spends a paragraph wondering what E means. And I'm like, bots can do that! They are really, really good at that!
Excellent book so far.
https://www.amazon.com/Service-Model-Adrian-Tchaikovsky-ebook/dp/B0CGRXGB4Q
This is a wonderful book, but it is 1/2 social commentary-satire, so not #AdrianTchaikovsky #ChildrenofTime masterpiece quality.
The flippant summary is #Kryten unwillingly saves the world from robot revolt.
The book is amalgam of every good #scifi trope you've ever seen before. His view of how AI works was influenced by #YouLookLikeAThingAndILoveYou and despite this appears to be unaware with how LLMs work. This novel is a world where LLMs never happened.
What computer will still be able to run in 100 years? I mean, if the chip factories stopped churnin out chips and we had to get by with the current stock, is there any limiting factor?
30 years & the plastic and batteries and capacitors start to fail at high rates
I guess you can't host a #SciFi award process in a country with a robust and nosy censorship regime.
https://www.polygon.com/24049021/hugo-awards-controversy-china-censorship-babel
Nick Bostrom is the #scifi fan's philosopher. Except he's so sci-fi, I'm not sure anything he's talking about should be taken seriously as public policy advice.
Children of Memory was a disappointing book, but had a number of good short stories in it. Had this been a collection of short stories, I think I would have been happier with the final result. The gimmick/writing device was frustrating and came across as magical realism more than science fiction.
Like the movie Paprika, just go ahead and read the plot explainer ahead of time.
#ChildrenOfTime and #ChildrenOfRuin were well worth the high page count.
There are no tropes in #scifi that correspond to #ChatGPT because ChatGPT has such an instable identity (someone said it has Dissociative identity disorder) that it makes for a bad character, bad story, bad writing. (I'm not saying ChatGPT is a bad writer, I'm saying a human written scifi book with ChatGPT as a character is bad because the fictional bot would not have a stable enough personality/goal to drive a satisfying story)
Patchwork man in #AlteredCarbon gets close
The AI that can read minds is going from research novelty to something usable by authoritarian regimes really fast. I can't even recall this trope being explored in #scifi
If people want to freak out about AI, a machine that writes essays as good as highschooler or code as good as a JR developer... not very dangerous compared to an interrogation machine that makes you dump your opinions about cops and the authoritarian regime.
LLMs are like "The Patchwork Man" from Altered Carbon (#scifi series)- The guy who changed bodies so many times he lost sense of being a particular person. These LLM don't have stable sense of selves. #OpenAI are wrong for trying so hard to get these bots to disclaim a self & it is bad UX, we want to chat with identities not Dissociative monsters.
In the meanwhile, all we got is document headers to set a personality, and post prompt reminder to stay in character, until they invent some sort of neural net module that can drive an identity while the language part dreams.
#ChildrenOfTime is the best book I've read all year including all of 2022.
If you love spiders and who doesn't, you'll love this book.
#AdrianTchaikovsky #SciFi
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky-ebook/dp/B07DN8BQMD/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=children+of+time&qid=1676133371&sr=8-1
Highly worth watching, good story, good acting, incredible special effects, topical things to think about.
Is #chatgpt a type A, B or C? Gotta watch the movie to see what I'm talking about
RIP Kim Hyun-joo
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