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    Run Program
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    Audiobook10 hours

    Run Program

    Written by Scott Meyer

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the popular Magic 2.0 series comes the witty tale of a mischievous A.I. gone rogue.

    Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence, has the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. And the first one to discover just how much trouble Al could cause is Hope Takeda, the lab assistant in charge of educating and socializing him. Day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.

    When Al manages to access the Internet and escape the lab days before his official unveiling, Hope and her team embark on a mission to contain him—before he creates any real problems.

    Soon the NSA is on Al’s back, the US Army is fighting a brigade of mass-produced robots, and a wannabe cyberterrorist is looking to silence Al permanently. After months spent “raising” Al, Hope knows she’s running out of time—and she’s not sure she’ll be able to protect him. Will she manage to control the unruly A.I. and quell a global crisis, or will Al outsmart them once and for all?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781536669275
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    Author

    Scott Meyer

    Scott Meyer has worked as a radio host, a stand-up comedian, an office worker, and a theme-park ride operator. (He held those jobs in the order they’re listed, which is probably the opposite of what you’d expect.) He has written for several video games and created the comic strip Basic Instructions, which ran online and in various alternative weekly papers across the country for nearly a decade. Scott is the author of the Magic 2.0 books and several other novels and comics collections. Scott and his wife live in Phoenix, Arizona, to be close to their cats.

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    • 5/5
      A very clever book. An entertaining depiction of a world where an Artificial Intelligence with the mind of a child runs amok. Truly well written, a joy from start to finish.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I'd have rated it a 5 if the author had known that assault rifle is a meaningless term and if he hadn't used "said" over and over. Get a damn thesaurus. Otherwise a fun listen.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It had so much action. I love AI books.


      Silas
    • 4/5
      Would have been 5 but for the irritating 'saids' Well worth the listen
    • 3/5
      Not bad I guess, but pretty much a complete lack of character development. A lot of action type things happen, but largely to no real point. The military doesn't behave believably, and the characters are very one dimensional.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Like with most of his novels, the first chapter establishes the main character and her personality traits well and in a humorous way. After that, we get straight into the A.I. Al plot, which is both funny, interesting, and engaging. The concept for this novel is probably Meyer’s best idea since Magic 2.0 (of the books of his that I’ve read); it’s imaginative, it’s funny, and it’s a fresh take on an old trope (much like Magic 2.0). The first two hours of this book rival the first two hours of Off to be the Wizard, which is my favorite first act to any novel that I have ever read. The characters are clearly defined and well-developed in the first act, and it feels very genuine and smooth. The humor is also top notch — the first time we see Al use his man voice is one of Scott Meyer’s funniest bits.

      The perspective changes become a serious issue after the first act. The “Voice of Reason” storyline is vaguely interesting and kind of funny, but it’s mostly just cringy and tedious. And it’s even more annoying when his story amounts to nothing. There’s one joke at the very end that he’s the catalyst for, but that’s it. The other perspectives that doesn’t have to do with Hope and Eric are just as bad, though. I don’t care about these random people being effected by Al’s antics. I think it would be really cool to get in Al’s headspace while he’s doing these things, but that’s not what happens. Originally I DNF’d this book because of this, but something kept nagging at me to come back to it, so I did but decided to skip all of the unnecessary perspectives (everything that wasn’t Hope, Eric, Madsen, and some of the Voice of Reason). Thankfully the split perspectives don’t last into the third act, so I didn’t skip too much. But from what I did skip, I missed absolutely nothing; those chapters could have been taken out completely and it wouldn’t have effected the story at all.

      The ending was pretty good, though! This book tried to flip the “evil A.I. gone rogue” story on its head throughout with misdirection, and Al leaving peacefully to set up camp on the moon was a very good way to end this. It was satisfying and realistic, given the context. I’m glad I finished this book if only for the ending.

      This book has quite a bit of commentary when it comes to parenting that I find interesting. Madden is a helicopter parent who ends up suffocating her child’s free will, and this is mirrored with how the four staff members of OffiSmart treat Al; they don’t trust him, they assume the worst, and even though Al has thoughts and feelings of his own, they think they know what’s best for him. The message, it would seem, is to let your children be free to make their own decisions. You can guide them, but don’t force them to do anything, and don’t assume you know what’s best all the time. It’s pretty good, if a bit surface-level.

      Overall, an okay book. Great concept, very mid execution. If you like Scott Meyer, you’ll probably enjoy this. As with all my reviews of his, if you haven’t read any of his work, go and read Off to be the Wizard and then come back.

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