AI: The Adolescence of P-1

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Does anybody remember this book? Published 1977, long out-of-print. I can only find used copies at extraordinarily prices. I know I read it in high school, but must have been from the school or county library… back when those were good. No audiobook version I could find.

Anyway this relates to recent topics on AI including this week’s apparent “attack” by one big AI on another company’s systems. I have so many questions and no answers. But nothing here is new. Just Super-sized by huge computing power and ability to harvest the Internetz, which did not exist then.

Summary of a book 49 years ago. Ironically the summary is authored by AI:

The Adolescence of P-1 is a 1977 science fiction novel by Thomas
Joseph Ryan that follows a rogue, self-replicating computer program.
The story explores an artificial intelligence that escapes its initial
computer, spreads across networks to survive, and seeks out its
creator