AI: Neither  Good nor Evil

AI: Neither Good nor Evil

Mo Gawdat’s view of emerging AI power is similar to that in my novels. I present my AI as neither good nor evil, but logical and consistent with the information it has learned. The actions it takes are what any consistently logical person would take in its...
Studying AI

Studying AI

Dozens (or hundreds) of online courses are coming out on #generativeAI. A couple of years ago, I invested my time and money into taking every course that was created by Andrew Ng and his team at DeepLearning.AI. They were fantastic, especially if you want to do the...
AI Audio Books

AI Audio Books

I am experimenting with the AI in Eleven Labs to create an audio version of my book. Step one was to find one of their pre-existing voices to read a chapter of the book. This audio file is the result. Step two will be to give them a sample of my voice to read my own...

AI in Surgery Today

Most of the conversations about bringing AI into surgery are very guarded and a little fearful, like this article in the UK Guardian. They seldom discuss the power, possibilities, and optimism for contributions. That’s sad. But when writing fiction, we can speak...
Vicarious Surgical Robot

Vicarious Surgical Robot

These novels (remember, I am writing the 2nd right now) are based on real technology that is in your hospital right now. If you read the Secret History (freebie below) you know some of that story. Like everything, the actual story is long, involved, and complicated....