That makes it the fastest-growing piece of technology in history. Yet the unbelievably rapid adoption of the technology is now promising – or threatening – to upend every aspect of our lives.Īll of this has stemmed from the popularity of ChatGPT, which went from an internal software project at the San Francisco start-up OpenAI to 100m users within two months of its release last November. Just months ago, AI was simply another hyped up corner of tech that many saw as just a buzzword used by start-ups to raise cash. “If you are building powerful artificial general intelligence that has autonomy or the ability to self improve, that is a legitimate concern we should be worried about,” says Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of British AI pioneer Deepmind who now leads the start-up Inflection AI. Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist at the University of Berkeley, has imagined a bot told to clean up the oceans that inadvertently sucked all the oxygen out of the air.
Someone-or some thing-wants that technology back.Two decades ago Nick Bostrom, the Oxford University philosopher, imagined a machine directed to manufacture paper clips that was so effective it turned all matter in the universe into them, including all of humanity. Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences rush headlong into the heat of the world’s strangest and deadliest arms race, because the global race to recover and retro-engineer alien technologies has just hit a snag. There are rumors of alien-human hybrids living among us.
The President of the United States vanishes from the White House.Ī top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds.Īll over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate.Īnd in a remote fossil dig in China dinosaur hunters have found something that is definitely not of this earth. In Extinction Machine, the fifth Joe Ledger book by Jonathan Maberry, the DMS must go up against someone-or something-in search of new technology that could bring about world war
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