⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Book Blurb
The greatest discovery in human history . . . OR OUR LAST?
In an artificial intelligence lab in Shanghai, something has gone terribly wrong. Days after a major breakthrough in machine learning, CyberGen Industries' lead AI scientist is dead—and their precious prototype has vanished into the ether. An investigation reveals that, against all odds, the lab's “unhackable” system has been breached.
The discovery, an algorithm mimicking human intelligence, is growing quickly—becoming more cunning and unpredictable with each passing hour. Soon its capabilities will eclipse its creators entirely.
Who stole it? And more troubling, what do they plan to do with it?
Ex-NSA hacker Adrian Pryor may be the only person on the planet capable of reining it in. He spent his career keeping the world safe, a vigilance for which he paid an enormous, personal price. Adrian knows there are people who will stop at nothing to control the powerful technology. He must find a way to do the impossible: to stop them, and to outmaneuver a rival more clever, more powerful, and more alien than anything he has ever seen.
Grounded in real-world science, Sara Yager’s wildly inventive debut brings advanced AI to life, illuminating a frightening, all-too-real truth about the future: we are one breakthrough away from inventing ourselves out of existence.
The Doomsday Code by Sara Yager
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. I thank BookSirens, the publisher and the author for the copy.
This book for me is a 3.5 star.
Artificial Intelligence as a power has been a quite old topic and we have seen its omnipresence in books and movies. Its earliest presence could be seen in the 1925-1927 book and movie Metropolis and quite more popularly in the Terminator series which talks about a takeover of the world by AI.
This is a very vibrant theme and when I read the book blurb for this book it made me want to request and read this book.
The book starts with an incident with a lead scientist dying and the prototype missing. The challenge spirals out of control as the algorithm had developed on its own and fast growing into a global threat.
The book is timely considering that in the current time we are seeing the growth of AI with every other day discussing about a new achievement by various companies in the public domain but significantly it is hardly clear how far the R&D has gone in the unpublished areas and under the radar operations.
Sara needs to be complimented for her research on the subject and the command she exerts over it. The story moves at a good pace and leaves in its wake characters that needed to be more fleshed out. But for such a kind of thriller the entity and its handling are priority to the story and the surrogate and supporting characters do not stall the story at any point and can be ignored.
With this being a debut novel, expect great things from her imagination in the future so am keeping her in my sights as an author whose books I would definitely browse.
⭐⭐⭐ Stars
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