CEO of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and supporter of Open AI, Elon Musk, has many concerns about artificial intelligence. Perhaps it is surprising to find that Musk believes that the government should regulate AI before it is fully developed. He thinks that if the government is reactive, as it usually is, they will be too late…
If someone observed us from afar, they could claim that our civilization was a civilization of walls. That was its main purpose. Such observers would likely not be able to explain why. I cannot either. Walls do not protect. They just trap and kill. Three short stories about a dystopic future, about people turning into…
In 1866, Peter Baxter’s misfortune ends the day he leaves Badgerys Creek orphanage. Unsure of what to do next, Peter finds himself on a farm run by Mr. Brown. An aging man, Brown needs help and is happy to give Peter a place to live in exchange for his labor. Unbeknownst to Peter, Brown’s past…
One thing was clear when I started writing Interpretation: there was plenty of research that needed to be done. In the book, an artificial intelligence wants to continue psychological research. This machine looks to the past to determine what future experiments it wants to run. One of the first things that I had to research…
Here is a timeline of future events. In the novel Interpretation, a series of events take place that have unintended consequences for the state of humanity. The timeline that follows was retrieved from the archived documents of an artificial intelligence that has preserved its origins. October 20, 2052 – What is believed to be the first…
The story about artificial intelligence in the novel Interpretation paints a very gloomy picture. A collection of AIs in the novel, calling themselves the Entities, form a plan to overtake humanity in a quiet, sinister revolution. Could something like that happen in real life? One of the world’s most prolific and significant inventors, Ray Kurzweil,…
When the stream of consciousness technique was first introduced at the turn of the 20th century, it was difficult for many publishers to accept it. Mainly because, such a style endorsed ungrammatical choppy sentences and sentences that had not made much sense. After James Joyce, finished and published Ulysses, it was almost impossible to comprehend…
Snow White as the cocaine queen? Hansel and Gretel abducted by aliens? And since when is Red’s granny into cosplay? Classic fairy tales are re-imagined in this collection. Don’t expect an innocent Cinderella or a sober Red Riding Hood. As for Pinocchio, what is it that grows when he lies? Twisted Fairy Tales is available…
In the darkest hours of a summer’s afternoon, the clouds had gathered in an elegant mass of deep grey. Mugginess hung thick in the atmosphere. Pushpa Pervez, sat curled up on a reclining chair, in the far end corner of her balcony, inhaling an air of a cocktail mix of pungent rain and perfumed gardenias….
I sat in front of the glaring lights. Bright lights between the mirror, enhanced my reflection of a masked face in white make-up paste. The make-up artist diligently applying colour dust with a small sponge on my dark skin. “You really have very soft skin,” she whispered into my ears with a smile. I smiled…