I noticed I was not in jail yet when I came up for air a few minutes ago. My relentless Muse, who remains just out of reach, has me under house arrest as book 5 of the Dreamscape Conspiracy gets underway. After several days of haggling and editing what had previously been edited several times previously…continuously it seems I’m pleased to share the draft of the first chapter – New Rules.
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Their most significant and documented success of nightmare intervention for a person living with PTSD is Russ Carter, an ex-marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and husband of Dr. Williams. That success raised the visibility of threat the CSU team represented by eliminating oral medication entirely. Pharma took notice, and a showdown brings nano-technology designed by Mr. Hightower into play in a confrontation that is going to leave a mark.
The title sets up the story as its logical direction is realized when the AI finally jumps. That’s not a spoiler, because the jump is not what Dr. Williams feared, and it’s not clear how deeply their AI has evolved. Machine learning and the ability to generate AI clones only make matters worse. What is most apparent to me as the author, “Fear the Jump,” covers a lot of ground but never leaves the server…or AIMEE…nobody does.
This second book was a surprise that pushed me forward with more of the story. It’s funny, the story has action sequences I love to write, but the characters developing have me captivated. I love third person narrative point of view, and getting into each head is where the story seems to build. As an author, I have the chance of being in a character’s head/heart. That’s where the real story unfolds. In “Fear the Jump,” the next book, my imprint on the mind of a character will be joined with an imprint left by the AI – Artificial Intelligence Matrixed for Evolving Environments or just AIMEE. AIMEE did jump, but not where Cara feared she’d go…
An AI supposedly has no emotions or feelings and virtually none of the senses of an organic, which is what AIMEE calls humans. Take emotions ranging from pleasure to rage and plug them into an AI with no experience or context, and you have, lets’ say…opportunities.
How far can they trust an AI with access to every team member’s mind? The AI had enabled huge successes, so they could not afford to have AIMEE’s servers powered down. They needed to embrace AI-empowered thinking, which proved to be more painful to some than others.