artificial intelligence

REINCEPTION: A Good Beginning to a “Bad Future” Tale

February 6, 2023 Jason P. Hunt 757 Views 0 Comments a.i., artificial intelligence, dystopian society, ReInception, Sarena Straus, young adult fiction

Sarena Straus makes her sci-fi fiction debut with a strong beginning to a story about mind control and free will.

Books Reviews

Philosophy Meets Technology in an Interesting UNFETTERED JOURNEY

June 24, 2021 Jason P. Hunt 556 Views 0 Comments AI, artificial intelligence, book review, consciousness, dystopian society, Gary F Bengier, soul, Unfettered Journey

Get ready to think Big Thoughts after reading this.

Science Technology

Science News May 5th, 2019

May 5, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 484 Views 0 Comments 3d printing, AI, artificial intelligence, asteroid, autism, bionic, contact lens, crispr, DARPA, International Space Station, ISS, Microsoft, NASA, satellite, SpaceX, StarLink, stem cells

This week in Science: SpaceX launch, asteroid preppers, Starlink, a new UK laser, military contact lenses, 3D printed organs, skin cells to make embryos, a fetal DNA treatment, and monkey brain imagery.

Science Technology

Science News April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 455 Views 0 Comments Amazon, artificial intelligence, crispr, Elon Musk, IBM, ieee, ieee spectrum, rainn wilson, SpaceX, Tesla, university of pennsylvania, watson

SpaceX has a setback, the mute can speak, Amazon employees fired by computers, Watson gets pulled, US CRISPR trials approved, and Tesla brings us tech we didn’t know we needed.

Reviews Television & Film

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Expands on the Original

October 22, 2017 Teresa Wickersham 1947 Views 0 Comments artificial intelligence, Bladerunner, Harrison Ford, movie review, replicant, Ryan Gosling

BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a long slow ride into another world that remarkably keeps the character of the first movie.

Science Technology

Making Computers Smarter By Making Them Stupider

July 7, 2017 Daniel C. Handley 2099 Views 0 Comments a.i., artificial intelligence, Clearly Guilty, computers, Linux, Mycroft, open source, Operating Systems, robot, robotics, technology

Advances in Artificial Intelligence have been moderate at best. But could reducing the “smartness” of a computer be the solution?

Books Reviews

Dr. Bashir Fights Google For CONTROL In Section 31 Outing

May 22, 2017 Jason P. Hunt 1137 Views 0 Comments artificial intelligence, book review, David Mack, Dr. Julian Bashir, Pocket Books, Section 31, Star Trek

David Mack continues to deliver well-crafted stories, but SECTION 31: CONTROL is slightly disappointing. Mainly because it treads ground already flattened into a rut.

Podcast Television & Film

ECHO CHAMBER: Rebooting THE MATRIX Is a Terrible Idea. Or Is It?

April 2, 2017 SciFi4Me Staff 1217 Views 0 Comments artificial intelligence, computers, Echo Chamber, Hugo Weaving, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, movies, reboots, remakes, SciFi4Me Radio, spyware, the Matrix, virtual reality, Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is looking to reboot THE MATRIX. Are there still good stories to tell? Or is it just another crass money grab?

Comic Books & Graphic Novels Reviews

MECHANISM: Wherein a Super A.I. Mulls Over Saving Humanity.

December 16, 2016 Dave Baker 1456 Views 2 Comments a.i., AI, artificial intelligence, comic, comic book, comic book review, dystopian, human, humanity, Ienco, Image Comics, judgement, mech, Mechanism, Raffaele Ienco, sci-fi, science fiction, singularity, technological, war

Raffaele Ienco crafts a battered Earth, the result of alien invasion. One man may have created an artificial intelligence that can save civilization, but before they can get the A.I. to help them, they must first teach it what it means to be human.

Podcast Television & Film

H2O #116: In Which We Discuss the Essentials of PERSON OF INTEREST

June 3, 2016 SciFi4Me Staff 858 Views 0 Comments Amy Acker, artificial intelligence, CBS Studios, H2O, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Person of Interest, podcasts, robot uprising, Sarah Shahi, SciFi4Me Radio, surveillance society, Taraji Henson, Television, The Essentials

In this episode, we take a moment to introduce THE ESSENTIALS, a new series that will focus on introducing you to genre material you might have missed the first time around. Or maybe you just need a refresher course. First up: PERSON OF INTEREST.

Reviews

The 100 Recap: Getting the Band Back Together

May 13, 2016 Hope Donoghue 907 Views 0 Comments artificial intelligence, Christopher Larkin, post-apocalyptic, The 100, The CW, TV Recaps

Part three of the catch-up game! The original Best Friend Squad reunites to save one of their own, and one character reaches a milestone in storyline development.