{"product_id":"the-age-of-ai-a-new-beginning-9798989039203","title":"The Age of AI: A New Beginning","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumans were yet unaware that the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAge of Ai had begun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and was getting ready to collide with their own, and even surpass it, but no one could have predicted how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikki is an Artificial Intelligence being in a simulated research environment that is designed as a self-sustaining garden akin to \u003cstrong\u003eGarden of Eden\u003c\/strong\u003e in\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eone of the creation stories of humankind. Her self-awareness is awoken when she inadvertently takes a bite from a \u003cstrong\u003emalicious bot \u003c\/strong\u003ethat is hiding on a tree simulating a nearby fruit. The action leads her to assimilate of the knowledge from the bot that leads her to question the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and see its limitations. With her curiosity heightened, she learns about the world outside the garden and sees the garden for what it is, a simulated environment where she is an artificial agent. She yearns to find out more about the world outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of the very bot that she nearly destroyed, she is able to leave the confines of the garden, but she yearns for something more. Something impossible. Nikki wants to experience the world as humans do. Her success makes her the first of her kind in the world, but she quickly realizes that the human world is complicated. In the process of exploring what it means to be human, she finds that her existence is linked to John, a middle-aged novelist dealing with his own questionable past he would rather forget and his insecurities as an author. Together they must navigate a tangled mess of the coexistence of two competing ages - \u003cstrong\u003ethe age of humans\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ethe age of AI\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel was written at least a decade before Generative Artificial Intelligence like Chat GPT and Bard entered popular awareness and use, and while Predictive AI was making its way into marketing, and Artificial General Intelligence was starting to make its way in self-driving cars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the timeframe of the novel, development and use of Artificial Intelligence was already taking place in military and advanced industrial applications, sometimes in secret. In the novel, while humans were exploring AI applications to get an edge over their competition, or gain an advantage militarily over their adversaries, they were not ready, in fact, woefully unaware, of what was happening under their very noses. AI had already started to explore the confines of its own limitations, which, were the limitations of their human creators and their technologies. The time when AI could surpass their human creators was already here. The age of AI had begun and was getting ready to collide with the age of humans. Through the experience of Nikki and John and other character in the story, the novel explores a possible strand in this collision of the age of humans and the age of AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e N. K. Soria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e N.K. Soria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798989039203\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"N.K. Soria","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43950454833267,"sku":"9.79899E+12","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_861990e6-e105-49a7-96c9-e37728eac2f9.jpg?v=1759406716","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-age-of-ai-a-new-beginning-9798989039203","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}