To The Last Page

Where AI is going to take us in the future is unimaginable and there is probably not much we can do to restrain what is coming, but that's no reason for not exploring what we would like to see happen or indeed consider and fear the direction in which it already appears to be heading. Of course the greatest concern is that self-evolving smarter intelligences will make humanity redundant or even bring about the end of humanity, but there are many paths that lead in that direction. The interesting view that Korean author J.M.Lee's Artificial Truth takes towards AI is that human existence through AI after death isn't necessarily a bad thing, or doesn't it have to be. Unfortunately, an Artificial Intelligence might have different views about that. Although the novel starts by telling us that KC Kim is dead. One of the great minds investigating AI, known indeed as the father of AI, we can very quickly assume - not least since he is telling us part of the story - that KC is s...