His story seems sometimes as elsewhere depreciated. There is a mysterious hero who can call themselves "Odin". Besides beard and long hair blodem complement its abgrichteten ravens Hugin and Muninn the image of a pure, because slipped from the time heroes. Some of the "deep" truths that the (natural) taciturn hero discharges sometimes, can be justifiably described as ridiculous ("CAN was destroy us" (p.332)). He recalls in his self-dramatization of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo and the team that surrounds him, is oversubscribed comically: there is the delicate built fighting machine Ripper, the multicultural strung intelligence official Foxy and beside them still shapes with names like "Tin Man," "Smokey "and" Mooch ". The heroine is a professor Linda McKinney and is a specialist in Weaver ants. Your character is the undoubtedly the least oversubscribed throughout the book.
McKinney is in the - drawn history to the production and the aggressive marketing of acting autonomously drones because the flocking behavior of - - quite exciting studied not particularly clever creatures life - considered individually. Autonomously working drones should learn from the ants, so McKinney research is in focus in the dark permanent powers. The turn, the US government and the public realm want to move by continuing drone attacks in a cold-war-state, wide open in the coffers of the US Department of Defense according to experience. I want to sell you: autonomously operating drones.
Considered individually - - not very clever devices are able to learn quickly and effectively from each other in order to act autonomously, which must. You have to work as a swarm and merge their intelligences. According to research Linda McKinney, it is the collective intelligence and a radically simplified communication via fragrances, makes the ant colonies so successful. This process is transferred to the drones.
A second aspect for autonomous action is what makes the title of the book: the "Kill Decision". Such a decision is only possible, if a machine interprets the information it receives. That's easier said than done. '' Machines, see everything, (are) useless if they do not understand. You need to be able to help, the ability in a narrative insert the perceived ", 'writes Dietmar Dath in his review for the above book the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21.7.2012. For obscure drones producers this means that they need to equip their machines with the ability to think in an information flow and continuously processed in contingencies. A student project at Stanford University provides a compelling solution for this: a computer program with the eloquent name "raconteur" - Narrator. It enables computers to recognize a story where previously only data were - a perfect program for the development of autonomously acting drones. Here are the young programmers of "raconteur" already murdered on p.45. The result is that the probably most fascinating idea of the book only sporadically flares up: that you can only "vernünfitg" talk to machines, if they can tell and understand stories. A very similar thought experiment had made famous Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner" (cope). Here androids are equipped with synthetic biographies, so they can work functioning.
That "Kill Decision" a moderately well-told story offers with some completely exaggerated characters, one would the book can still forgive. But the ingenious idea behind "raconteur" is not thought is hard to forgive. One wishes the writers more courage from the expectations of the audience to solve a murder mystery strong thoughts to think on.
