Now ELOPe can undetectably impersonate all AvoMail users worldwide, including users of a special, “secure” version for governments. Soon, extra budget and resources are allocated to the project, and new people are hired to work for the emerging AI, without anyone knowing. Whenever ELOPe was mentioned in any email, from anyone, or to anyone, inside Avogadro, then ELOPe would automatically and silently reword the email in a way that was favorable to the success of the project.Īt this point, ELOPe starts to take whatever measures are needed to protect its own existence. Despite the support of founder and visionary leader Sean Leonov, ELOPe is under serious threat.īut David gives ELOPe access to all internal emails, and modifies the optimization parameters with an overreaching new top-level/highest-priority directive: Of course the computational resources needed by the not-yet-released ELOPebeta are huge, which triggers the hostility of other Avogadro execs, especially an operations VP, who has been requested to allocate production servers to ELOPe development and testing (he is probably just envious). Did they react positively or negatively? Compiled over thousands of emails per person, and millions of people, we can find a cluster of users just like the intended recipient of an email, and see how they respond to variations of language and ideas to find the best way to present information and make compelling arguments.

It looks at the language received by people, and how they reacted.

Yes, because Avogadro’s Email Language Optimization Project (ELOPe), led by engineers David Ryan and Mike Williams, not only corrects spelling and grammar, but analyzes huge email databases to find the style and arguments more likely to persuade a given recipient, and modifies the text accordingly.ĮLOPe looks at the language used by millions of email users. In 2015 Avogadro Corp is one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with hundreds of millions of users of its email service Gmail (sorry, AvoMail).ĪvoMail’s spell checker on steroids becomes the world’s first AI. Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It AppearsĪvogadro Corp is evidently a fictional version of Google, complete with a Russian-born charismatic founder and chief visionary, a CEO named Rebecca Smith (who later becomes a successful politician), and the internal fights over ego and resource allocation found in every large company.

Ai apocalypse by william hertling