Avogadro Corp Comparisons

https://avogadrocorp.com/ immediately came to mind:> David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

"David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. [SPOILER: ELOPe is essentially Smart Compose in Gmail] But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realize

> My latest project is INDOCTRINATOR: http://indoctrinator.com but I've developed other successful products."INDOCTRINATOR is an email program that reveals the secrets to becoming obsessed over anything, even something you hate."Pass.

This made me think of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams's 1987 novel, where there's an AI company that takes military and political decisions and comes up with post hoc rationalizations for them.

Reminds me of the book "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears" [0], in which (spoiler alert):- a-company-that-is-totally-not-Google is developing a tool for an-email-service-that-is-totally-not-Gmail, which can rewrite emails with the goal of maximizing the chance of a desired outcome happening (automatically added mentions of family when requesting time off from a boss who prioritizes family, etc)- the project is in danger of being canceled, so a developer cha

Eliza reminds me of a "character" (the smart computer) in a book called Death Match by Lincoln Child.Story in a nutshell, minus spoilers: programmer creates a brilliant "matching algorithm" (on the Eliza-Like machine) that pairs people with unprecedented success rates. And then one day those couples start dying.Great read; highly recommended. The Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child team writes some excellent books, if you're a lover of Crichton-type SciFi with a more technical aspect.

Have you read Avogadro Corp (http://avogadrocorp.com/ )? That novel is based on the premise of a tool that is intended to help you write well-crafted emails yet quickly gets out of hand.I'm not suggesting at all this will be the case here but this seems related and might be an interesting read.

Lol. This is exactly like the plot of the book Avogadro Corp. where a Google-like company creates an email-composing system which then leads directly to the singularity as the program pursues it's own agenda.

I just started reading Avogadro Corp (http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea...) this weekend, and this reminds me quite a lot of the emergent AI that figures heavily in the story (ELOPe). A quick synopsis: developers build a system to "improve" responses from emails. The system at some point is given the ability t

http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea..."David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in p