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What is the Perfect Review?

William X. Adams Posted on May 11, 2020 by William X. AdamsAugust 12, 2020
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I was delighted when my recent book, Alien Talk, received a positive review.  The book is the second in the Newcomers Series, about AI androids making their way in a human world.  The review came from Booklife, the division of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alien Talk, Newcomers Series | Tagged AI, Alien Talk, androids, aphasia, artificial intelligence, book reviews, communication, intentionality, language, linguistics, natural language, Noam Chomsky, Psifibooks.com, psycholinguistics, Publishers Weekly, sci-fi

Intelligent Things in the Semi-Finals!

William X. Adams Posted on January 29, 2020 by William X. AdamsJanuary 29, 2020

Intelligent Things has qualified as a semi-finalist for the prestigious Cygna Award in Sci-fi. A “semi-finalist” is one level of filtering better than “shortlisted” in their schema. I’ll take my wins wherever I find them, so I say, woo-hoo!! What … Continue reading →

Posted in Newcomers Series | Tagged androids, artificial intelligence, consciousness, cybersecurity, Cygnus, Internet of thing, IoT, psi-fi, Psifibooks.com, sci-fi, William X. Adams

Intelligent Things Swarming

William X. Adams Posted on April 15, 2019 by William X. AdamsApril 29, 2019

Intelligent Things, the third novel in the Newcomer Series, is available for pre-order on Kindle. It is released May 1, 2019. The 6×9 paperback is out on Amazon now. You can also download it as an ebook for Kindle or … Continue reading →

Posted in Newcomers Series | Tagged AI, androids, artificial intelligence, consciousness, embodiment, Internet of things, IoT, Jennifer Valentine, NODs, softbots, swarming

Little Green Alien

William X. Adams Posted on February 18, 2019 by William X. AdamsMay 21, 2019

As the third and final installment of the Newcomers series marches toward publication (Intelligent Things, due on May 1, 2019), I am working on a completely different approach to psychological sci-fi, or psi-fi. I am  succumbing to the cliché of … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged AI, androids, consciousness, embodiment, green men, psi-fi, psychological sci-fi, sci-fi, space aliens, the Newcomers, Turing test

Ruk-ruk Akoo!

William X. Adams Posted on January 4, 2019 by William X. AdamsApril 11, 2019

Why do all children, all over the world, in all cultures, start speaking at about 18 months old and become chatterboxes by age two? This happens whether they are given explicit instruction or not. But it doesn’t happen if they … Continue reading →

Posted in Alien Talk | Tagged AI, Alien Talk, aliens, androids, aphasia, artificial intelligence, artificial language, dinosaurs, first contact, language, linguistics, Noam Chomsky, panspermia, psycholinguistics, robots

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