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Bruce Deitrick Price

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Literature and arts generally. Also, I met my first robot 40 years ago ...more

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Logline: About a robot designed to have intelligent conversation with humans. No other skills. Harmless. Chaos ensues.

Frankie, the story: Raymond Mason, AI genius, rarely brings his work home. Then late one afternoon he brings his latest, most humanlike creation. Raymond knows his wife will be charmed. No way! Julia Mason feels competitive and threatened. For one thing, Raymond touches Frankie in a romantic way.

Julia is hostile and drinks too much. She passes out as Professor Mason runs upstairs to find a gun. An hour later Julia wakes to find her husband dead and Frankie gone. Julia, semi-hysterical, races into the night to find the missing masterpiece.

Simon, a grad-school drug dealer, falls in love with Frankie. He realizes he can build ...more

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For example, why is Elon Musk saying that AI will destroy us in 5-10 years?

Bruce Deitrick Price Search speeds have increased for a century. Calculation speeds have increased for a century.

But the real novelty is algorithms, which are rules telli…moreSearch speeds have increased for a century. Calculation speeds have increased for a century.

But the real novelty is algorithms, which are rules telling the computer what to do.. They used to tell the computer the rules of chess and the basic do's and don'ts. Now they give the computer 10,000 championship games with the instruction to figure out the best strategies. This approach allowed a Chinese computer to become the go champion of the world. This was a huge shock to the Chinese mind, which had concluded long ago that only a Chinese man could be the champion. Now the Chinese spend a lot of money on AI research.

What if, as a military option, a country created an algorithm which could infiltrate, subvert and sabotage another country's computers. And this thing started spreading throughout the world. So, whether by evil or accident, weird things can happen. Personally, I am more intrigued by the misunderstandings that will happen in the years ahead. The robot in Frankie does not have any mean intentions but somehow lots of people die.(less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Bruce Deitrick Price None. The tricky thing about literary plots is that they usually have layers or they double-back or there is a story inside of a story. A good book wi…moreNone. The tricky thing about literary plots is that they usually have layers or they double-back or there is a story inside of a story. A good book will usually require a lot of things going on. I think in real life, most of what happens is fairly simple in comparison....I remember once my brother said he had an idea for a movie. He described it to me. And I said, "Okay, that would be great for the first 10 minutes. Then what happens?" In other words, he had a great opening but not much more. He was stunned that I didn't think he had a whole movie. I told him, "You need a LOT of story."(less)

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Average rating: 3.47 · 36 ratings · 12 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Too Easy 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving K-12 -- What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them? 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Education Enigma: What Happened To American Education 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frankie 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Saves The World 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theoryland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Ralph it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Dreams did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Falls In Love With His Wife 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Frankie is fun

When people talk about summer reading, I assume they want something fresh and original and entertaining.

That would be Frankie, my new novel. An ensemble cast confronts a mystery that nobody can figure out. Everything is transparent but there is still a mystery.

Almost everything about AI and robots is controversial and complex. Zuckerberg and Musk have opposing views on the future of the human race Read more of this blog post »

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I'm excited about The Boy Who Saves The World. The response I'm getting is very good, so I urge everyone to check it out. Also available in paperback. New 5=star review on Amazon. I'm a novelist, not primarily a sci-fi writer or a builder of worlds. I ...more
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Bruce Price answered Goodreads's question: What’s your advice for aspiring writers? I see this question a lot because I'm both an author and an education reformer. I think the answer is always the same, you have to have a lot of discipline. Some days you just have to write whether you want to or not. Same for painters; I'm also a vi See Full Answer
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I'm excited about The Boy Who Saves The World. The response I'm getting is very good, so I urge everyone to check it out. Also available in paperback. New 5=star review on Amazon. I'm a novelist, not primarily a sci-fi writer or a builder of worlds. I ...more
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“If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else."

I use this line all the time. It's the thesis of my new book Saving K-12. The professors up at Harvard have been dumbing down our school system for a long time. It's like a society that has adopted a very unhealthy diet. Maybe you don't see the effects the first five or 10 years. At some point, however, everybody starts to look pale and weak. That's what's happening to us academically. What's the best way to fight back? Read Saving K-12 to understand the gimmicks that roam freely throughout our classrooms. When you understand them, you can defeat them.”
― Bruce Deitrick Price

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“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: conformity, control, education, government, obedience, school

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