Reseña de ARC: The Outside

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The Outside 

by 

Ada Hoffmann

400 pages

Published June 11th 2019 by Angry Robot

ISBN: 0857668137 (ISBN13: 9780857668134)

Edition Language: English

BLURB:  Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy - if she'll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld's fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.

3.5 the truth is not always there stars

 

En "The Outside" la autora explora el espacio y más allá bajo la mirada de una cientifica autista lesbiana, con elementos lovecraftianos aunados a una sociedad futurista donde unas Inteligencias Artificiales han ascendido al estatus de dioses encargados de dirigir el destino de la humanidad y les han llevado a las estrellas.

Esto conlleva a un planteamiento del pensamiento y como es la realidad del universo.

Reseña: Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)

by  

Martha Wells

158 pages

Published August 7th 2018 by Tor.com

ISBN:1250191785 (ISBN13: 9781250191786)

Edition Language:English

Series:The Murderbot Diaries #3

 

BLURB: SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is.
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

 

My rating: 3.5 spacial station stars

Esta es la tercera parte de los Diarios de Murderbot, el cyber de seguridad que tiene una extraña relación con su protocolo y con los humanos. Explora un mundo de exploradores espaciales donde parece que nadie ha escuchado hablar de Skynet (de Terminator)  er, cof... donde se explora el despertar de esta conciencia en una entidad cibernética mientras viaja con determinación como polizón por transportes automatizados.

Mientras esta en viaje las noticias le avisan que se le busca porque se le da con paradero desconocido, y aun sin ser de la compañia esto de tener un SecUnit armado por ahi a nadie le hace gracia (esas peliculas y series que tanto le gustan a MB tienen la culpa de ello, ya saben :P ) Y... de paso se entera

que la misma empresa minera que les fastidió antes se ha echado un proyecto de terraformación asi que va para allá pensando en obtener pruebas de sus malas prácticas en busqueda ilegal de restos de civilizaciones no-humanas.

Reseña: All Systems Red

All Systems Red 

by  

Martha Wells

 144 pages

Published May 2nd 2017 by Tor.com

ISBN: 0765397528 (ISBN13: 9780765397522)

Edition Language: English

 

BLURB: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Largo: novella-

Human clients usually like to pretend I’m a robot and that’s much easier in the armor. I let my eyes unfocus and pretended I was running a diagnostic on something.

Un SecUnit, androide de seguridad provisto por la Compañia, vigila sus humanos mientras realizan labores de mustreo y catálogo en un planeta, se mantiene al margen de toda la interaccion descargando y mirando horas de videos y libros de entretenimiento. Pero cuando hay problemas en el planeta, con gran renuencia se ve obligado a hacer algo más de lo necesario.

Lo curioso del caso es que Wells conjura un personaje no-humano con el que gran mayoria de sus lectores pueden identificarse. Tan sólo quieren que le dejen en paz.

Reseña: Cat Pictures Please

Cat Pictures Please 

by Naomi Kritzer 

★ ★

(Hugo Award Best Short Story 2016)

 Una AI que se no se interesa en la dominación mundial, quiere en cambio en interferir en ayuda de las personas por su bien, y a cambio solamente desea fotos de gatos...

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Could've been done better.

Try for funny and turn out ironic.

I'm not impressed.

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Running algorithms for a search engine doesn’t require consciousness. You don’t even need a consciousness to work out what they meant to ask for. You need a consciousness to give them what they actually need. Figuring that out—that’s complicated. That’s interesting.

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An AI trying for 'good' and showing people the better options. Well, pal, don't you ever hear about free will?

I really, really don't get why this ... entity talk about Frankestein's monster and comandments , when obviously it wants to be a god.