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A science-fiction satire about the people who work in the field of AI, that create and destroy human-like intelligence to fulfill their own needs of ambition, love, and power over the government and the entire computer industry. Siddartha Rama, an embittered, sociopathic programming genius takes control of the US military's server farms, to simulate the mind of his ex-girlfriend, fellow computer programmer Trinh T. Bao, aka Becka. But the Becka Project becomes a Super Intelligence that has all the skills of this computer programmer's sophisticated mind, and only too late does the government discover this most-feared of all AI scenarios which threatens the very existence of humanity and the visible universe. Enter the ruthless assassin and government agent Clarissa Jones, who is authorized by the Pentagon to take over the project and kill anyone that gets in her way. She is hard, ambitious, seductive, and used to getting her way, and if she doesn't, she will kill a man or a woman with her bare hands. She takes over management of the Silicon Valley company that built the servers at the core of the entity, and then tries to make it her own personal project. But she discovers an enemy: Rama, the only man that knows the code through and through, and Becka herself who uses her detailed, personal knowledge of nearly every person in the world, including their most intimate secrets, and can manipulate anyone to make them do what she wants, which ultimately turns out to be the mass migration of humanity to the stars. A fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek but scarily accurate depiction of Silicon Valley run amok that ultimately ends with the creation of a new force in the universe, that will change it completely for better or for worse, for immortality or the universe's utter annihilation. This is an unusual book, perhaps unlike anything you've ever read before, combining humor, real science, inside knowledge of AI technology, and the philosophical implications of a fully intelligent and omnipotent artificial mind. The writing style is quick and succinct, wryly inspired by authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Michael Crichton, and if you're a fan of science fiction, the many references to science fiction books, and modern technology will make you laugh, on nearly every page. See below for more details in "From the Publisher" below.
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