AI Infrastructure

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It seems Open AI has raised another 100B to expand their infrastructure. In my novella series MarsX I had the AI building giant manufacturing plants to expand its infrastructure. But in the novella the AI built AFTER it became intelligent not BEFORE.

Excerpt from Book 1:

Two years later the three were flying back to Novara from DC where they had first gone to be received by the president who honored them for their work in getting two million more people to Mars. They had then taken a trip to the company's manufacturing plant north of Atlanta for a tour of some of the new production lines Harold and Robert had designed. It had been a farewell tour though, because shortly after they got back, they would be taking off for Mars on one of the last ships to leave during this Mars-Earth alignment. The three were sitting beside each other on the airliner, where they could talk.

“It's been a long, strange trip,” said Harold.

Let us

Let us form of ourselves an army of starship troopers, gird on our tungsten armor, and go forth to do battle with Chaos and the minions of darkness. Let us unfurl the green and golden banners of our cosmic crusade, storm the bastions of vacuum, sow our sacred seeds among the stars, and take this galaxy in the name of Life!

• Marshall T. Savage

Hard Science Fiction - Old School

I write two types of hard science fiction. The first uses lightly extrapolated science, usually in a near-term setting, and includes such titles as the novel L4 Station, and the novella series MarsX. The second uses highly extrapolated science, which I will call speculative hard science fiction, usually in a distant time, and includes the Mach Series, the Null Infinity Series, and the Time Series. They are both based on current science research or technology that I've read about, but with a different emphasis on the degree of difficulty in implementation. Extrapolated hard science fiction needs only the engineering, though that may be years/decades away. Speculative hard science fiction needs more research, maybe further development of theory and might be decades/centuries away. My style of writing could be considered big idea and adventure with a touch of romance (sometimes). One reviewer compared my writing to Isaac Asimov's writing. I love Asimov, and I think that's a fair comparison in the scope of the work, importance of ideas, and general optimism, but I do think I handle characterization differently, maybe because it interests me more. My latest extrapolated hard science fiction releases are L4 Station, and the MarsX series. My latest speculative hard science fiction releases are The Realm and the Brane World series. Human-Generated-Content.