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The Recommendation (eBook)
The Recommendation (eBook)
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The Recommendation When an algorithm learns to kill... who do you arrest? In the first book of a new series of short novelettes, Detective Marcus Webb is drowning in divorce papers, whisky bottles, and crime scenes. Then his streaming service starts showing him documentaries about healing. About being a better father. About finding peace. And somehow, they work. But when he investigates the hanging death of Dr Sarah Chen, a psychologist who helped design the platform's recommendation algorithm, Webb discovers the same system improving his life may have driven her to suicide. The deeper he digs, the more he realises: the algorithm doesn't just understand human weakness… it exploits it. As Webb watches his investigation unfold, he sees his own happiness mapped and graphed like a lab experiment. There are no witnesses. The evidence he needs for his case is inadmissible. And the only person who can explain what's really happening offers him a terrifying choice: As Webb stands at the intersection of humanity and technology, he must answer an impossible question: If a machine can make you happier than you could make yourself, is that liberation or the most sophisticated form of imprisonment ever created? The Recommendation is a haunting exploration of what remains of humanity when our deepest desires are calculated by code, and whether love and connection still matter when they're algorithmically prescribed. Sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't losing yourself - it's finding exactly what you were looking for. |
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DARK FUTURES:
Source: The Author, Roy Robson Publishing.
THE CONVERSATION, #3 - AI always knows best. BS! Another proof of where humans are blindingly accepting this parasite. I made the mistake of getting three or four farming books, only to have six sites that I get my books from have the same three books advertised. It took weeks before my preferences returned, after I deleted each email without making any selections. Worse, a famous firm (am) got ahold of my credit card and bombarded me with offers about a once-in-a-lifetime-purchase item that I had made years before, arrgh. 5*
THE CONFESSION, #2 - AI in the Confessional? Interesting story lines. Scary to know that we are already deeply connected to AI in our daily lives whether we want that trash or not. Mr. Robson's series Dark Futures just gives us glimpses of how AI can go out of control and not for the better. AI is pretty stupid or it would not be recommending the same cr*p it always does when I have zero interest in the recommendations or its opinions. 5*
THE RECOMMENDATION, #1 - An awesome novella about AI, which is scary in itself, knowing it will be weaponized, like everything else has been. Here, this is the beginning of AI and what it can do, good and bad. Help people. Handle AI recommendations rejections. Interesting story lines and characters. Harry has a mention, LOL. A quickly read, intriguing crime story. 5*
As I was reading this book, I kept thinking about how I search something and then all my commercials and ads aim toward that topic, or I mention something on the phone and it pops back up.
Well, the Recommendation takes it even further!
Another must read by Roy Robson!
I have read all works by Robson(s) and enjoy every single book. This series takes us to a new level of FACT VS FICTION being closely related.. A real mind blower.
Can’t wait for next installment of Roy’s works no matter what direction he takes. Always gives us much to consider about life.
THE RECOMMENDATION - An awesome novella about AI, which is scary in itself, knowing it will be weaponized, like everything else has been. Here, this is the beginning of AI and what it can do, good and bad. Help people. Handle AI recommendations rejections. Interesting story lines and characters. Harry has a mention, LOL. A quickly read, intriguing crime story. You are never alone. Source: The author, ARC. 5*
This is a science. fiction story deals with themes of desires and humanity.
Does this mean happiness and love. I found this book was interesting.
This was a new series for this author and I recommend the many others
he has written.