Review of Terms of Service
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Review of Terms of Service
[Following is a volunteer review of "Terms of Service" by Craig W. Stanfill.]
In a quickly developing society like ours, fantasies of artificial intelligence (AI) ruling the world do not sound that far off. We now have AI that can write content, draw art, and deliver pharmaceutical drugs for us. We have technology quite literally at our fingertips. As fantastical as that sounds, we all have very valid worries about what could happen if we lose control of the robots we built ourselves. For example, what happens when these robots begin to govern our world? Terms of Service by Craig W. Stanfill is a dystopian fantasy novel that may have fictional but possible answers to our questions. As this book shows us, technology has no limits.
Kim works in the Artificial Intelligence Company, in a world where AIs have replaced most humans. Craig brings his readers to a world where AIs can bring you everything you need. I particularly like this scene where Kim’s refrigerator was telling her what she should be eating and what she should not be eating for breakfast. This is a world where AI governs your food, cleans your house, whom you go on dates with, and what you should wear. But Kim does not only see the good in this world. One day, she realizes that there must be something wrong. She questions whether the world she’s in is as idealistic as it seems on the surface. When her friend Shan comes home and the both of them go on an adventure, Kim’s life turns upside down.
I would easily recommend Terms of Service to fans of fantasy and science fiction novels. This is a book that would particularly be engaging to those who wonder at the workings of AIs and technology but would also interest those who are working in the field. I, myself, am an engineering major and this book was such a good treat. It has a good amount of technicality to give an overview of modernization, but not an accidental oversimplification. This is also not technical enough to be overwhelming to a clueless reader. This is a book that transports readers into another world. Due to some erotic scenes and the use of drugs in this book, however, I would only recommend this book to adult readers.
It is safe for me to say that there is nothing I disliked about this book. It was exceptionally edited. I did not find any errors. The book shows both the good and the bad sides of AI, and it also effectively shows the reality of how the world could not survive on AI alone. There is, after all, a reason why humans have not been replaced. I like that this book does not gratify AIs as other science fiction novels do. I rate this book five out of five stars.
Craig brought forward a captivating story that mirrors what our world could be if we choose to be irresponsible about developing technology. He has a great writing style that makes the dialogues fun and jargon easy to understand. I loved how he described the characters and the robots themselves. I would not mind living in this world for a day. I would like to see how it would be. I believe this is a testament to Craig’s wonderful world-building and storytelling. I applaud him for Terms of Service.
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Terms of Service
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In a quickly developing society like ours, fantasies of artificial intelligence (AI) ruling the world do not sound that far off. We now have AI that can write content, draw art, and deliver pharmaceutical drugs for us. We have technology quite literally at our fingertips. As fantastical as that sounds, we all have very valid worries about what could happen if we lose control of the robots we built ourselves. For example, what happens when these robots begin to govern our world? Terms of Service by Craig W. Stanfill is a dystopian fantasy novel that may have fictional but possible answers to our questions. As this book shows us, technology has no limits.
Kim works in the Artificial Intelligence Company, in a world where AIs have replaced most humans. Craig brings his readers to a world where AIs can bring you everything you need. I particularly like this scene where Kim’s refrigerator was telling her what she should be eating and what she should not be eating for breakfast. This is a world where AI governs your food, cleans your house, whom you go on dates with, and what you should wear. But Kim does not only see the good in this world. One day, she realizes that there must be something wrong. She questions whether the world she’s in is as idealistic as it seems on the surface. When her friend Shan comes home and the both of them go on an adventure, Kim’s life turns upside down.
I would easily recommend Terms of Service to fans of fantasy and science fiction novels. This is a book that would particularly be engaging to those who wonder at the workings of AIs and technology but would also interest those who are working in the field. I, myself, am an engineering major and this book was such a good treat. It has a good amount of technicality to give an overview of modernization, but not an accidental oversimplification. This is also not technical enough to be overwhelming to a clueless reader. This is a book that transports readers into another world. Due to some erotic scenes and the use of drugs in this book, however, I would only recommend this book to adult readers.
It is safe for me to say that there is nothing I disliked about this book. It was exceptionally edited. I did not find any errors. The book shows both the good and the bad sides of AI, and it also effectively shows the reality of how the world could not survive on AI alone. There is, after all, a reason why humans have not been replaced. I like that this book does not gratify AIs as other science fiction novels do. I rate this book five out of five stars.
Craig brought forward a captivating story that mirrors what our world could be if we choose to be irresponsible about developing technology. He has a great writing style that makes the dialogues fun and jargon easy to understand. I loved how he described the characters and the robots themselves. I would not mind living in this world for a day. I would like to see how it would be. I believe this is a testament to Craig’s wonderful world-building and storytelling. I applaud him for Terms of Service.
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Terms of Service
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