Hertling shows how given the right data sets, a software program such as ELOPe would be able to understand, model, and predict our behavior very well. It is able to play on people’s pride as well as their logic, their emotional irrational responses as well as their calculated rational ones. The program is often better at understanding individuals’ motivations than their closest friends or even themselves.
In the book, ELOPe eventually becomes a self-sustaining entity.
It was specifically programmed to evaluate and create models of human interaction to best achieve a favorable response, and so when it has access to more and more of this human data, it is able to write emails that convince everyone to do what it wants. This program, when given the proper motivation to become self-sustaining, takes on a life of its own. The software program measures sentiment based on all existing records of a user’s communications. The book series places a focus on the impacts of the genesis and subsequent social integration of non-human intelligent agents.Īvagadro CorpThe first book focuses on the development and unintentional unleashing of the Email Language Optimization Project (or ELOPe, a program originally intended to improve email communication effectiveness). One of the intended takeaways from The Singularity Series is the progression of jaw-dropping, world-changing events that arise from the smallest of near-future, low-impact catalysts.
New computing technologies that express sentience and intelligence will have positive and negative impacts on how we govern, structure our economy, solve global problems, and realize our full potential as a species. The series centers on concepts and issues in artificial intelligence that we may not think we need to discuss or evaluate yet, but as the series reveals, they could be much closer than they appear. The Singularity Series, by William Hertling, expertly crafts a world where an email optimization program and a simple computer virus, organized into systems that do not exceed our current day technology capabilities, set the world ablaze (figuratively and literally). Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of STEPS: Science, Technology, and Engineering Policy Studies.
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