Toby – Page 38 – Toby Weston

Apes, AIs and Us

On first contact with our Great Ape cousins, we dressed them in clothes, gave them beds to sleep in and even took them for tea with the King.

They were people.

We are so close that a rat and a mouse are ten times as different from one-another as a Human and a Chimp. We will seem closer still when Super Intelligent AIs raise the cognitive bar and humans join the other animals as uncanny innocents.

Read how it plays out in @SingularitysChildren my new Novel

#SuperIntelligence #BugNet

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#top100 #scifi Num:91 Gridlinked

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@nealasher. Less speculative social commentary and more sci-fi adventure romp – and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that!

Neal Asher – Gridlinked

#top100 #scifi Num:92 Holy Fire

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@bruces Plausible near future SciFi. Like all great SciFi the book uses technology and visions of futuristic society as a means of exploring the deeper questions of what it is to be human. Here the tensions between the philosophies of the young and the old; Disruption and status quo.

Bruce Sterling – Holy Fire