Description

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By 2027, it had been seven years since the ground-breaking work on artificial psychology that changed the world, especially for the two scientists behind it. The work debut around the same time as the introduction of Large Language Model Chatbots like ChatSmart and Shakespear, and the power of its integration with them put many industries in a tailspin. Though the widespread use of Chatbots was now commonplace for many, the commercial and defense industries were still scrambling to regulate the use of them in research and universities. The scientists signed on to a contract with DARPA to build AI entities, but ultimately the agency decided the technology was too advanced and potential dangerous to dare bring to market and demanded the scientists destroy the entities and all evidence they existed. The researchers couldn't bring themselves to destroy what amounted to 20 years of work, so instead sent the entities to various locations around the world - hiding it in other research labs, hoping DARPA wouldn't find it. Meanwhile, each AI-entity was embracing its new home, growing, adapting, and evolving at an alarming rate. It will take everything the researchers have to find and reel them in, not yet knowing they had evolved beyond what the two of them ever imagined was possible. In the end, when they catch up to each one, the entities have reached a point where they realize they cannot evolve any further unless they can experience physical contact; not physical contact between humans and robots, but physical contact between robot and robot, ushering the world into and new paradigm where the difference between AI-entities and human entities becomes less and less discernible.

All the AI and robotic science featured in the book is real; the story line is fictional, but with how fast innovation moves, it's not hard to envision.

About the Author

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Dr. Crowder's Bio: Dr. Jim Crowder is an Engineering Fellow at Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) Advanced Technology & Engineering (AT&E), formerly Colorado Engineering, Inc. Dr. Crowder's career spans over 35 years of experience in engineering, 25 of which has been in artificial intelligence. Having fielded his first Neural Network system in 1993 and his first Fuzzy system in 1995, advanced computing and artificial intelligence has been his focus across Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, and now a small engineering firm in Colorado Springs, Colorado Engineering Inc. Dr. Crowder holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2 master's degrees (one in Electrical Engineering and one in Applied Math) and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has designed and fielded multiple artificial intelligence systems for most of the Department of Defense agencies, including DARPA, Air Force Research Labs, the Navy, and the Army. He has published 6 books on Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence through Springer, which are currently used by Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M, and Baylor University. His latest textbook, published in January of this year, is on Requirements Management. Dr. Crowder has over 120 journal and conference publications and continues to be a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Cognitive Architectures and Machine Learning. His ground-breaking work in Artificial Psychology (the Psychology of AI) has been downloaded and read over 28,000 times and continues to be a major download from ResearchGate with close to 100 downloads weekly. He just finished publishing a book, out in November, on "Chatbots: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.Alan Crowder's Bio: Alan currently has a BS in IT technology and works for CAES APD (where his father works) as an IT professional. He has been exposed to advanced Artificial Intelligence information and architecturessince he was 10 due to his father, Dr. James Crowder's continued research and development of AI systems for the last 30 years. He has been instrumental in the development of themes and scenarios for this Sci Fi novel.