what would happen if AI program takes over?

As usual Harris is great in creating feeling of suspense without saying or showing much. 

In this book Harris imagines what would happen if investment fund is run by AI. This fully autonomous AI is a brainchild of asocial physicist/computer programmer with some mental issues (even Harris could not escape from this cliche). This AI does high speed trading and makes lots of money.

But after upgrade to newer version, strange and scary things start to happen to programmer.

It is a fine fiction though little bit confusing. It is not clear if things are done by AI or programmer's deranged alter ego. Its scary.

posted by David   

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Dan Brown's 'Origin' reads like a flying air balloon that deflates before reaching stratosphere

This book truly disappoints. It is another book from Robert Langdon series. It starts great but the climax and revelations are so anticlimactic that you are left feeling as if time spent reading it was totally wasted. I had not expected such weak ending from "The Da Vinci Code" author.

The actual "villain" behind the plot is immediately recognized from the conversations that follows Kirsch's presentation and his tragic end.

Only reason to continue reading is to know what was it that actually Kirsch discovered. But when his discoveries are revealed you are left asking yourself "what? its all? Are you kidding me".     

 posted by David Usharauli

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