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TURTLES
Murder by bug? TURTLES starts with attempted homicides on opposite sides of the Earth. A winged insect kills an American professor in Washington, DC. Within days, a Western Australian university lecturer clings to her life as police investigations reveal another insect assassin flying loose on Cappuccino Strip in Fremantle. The link? Both researchers are team members of a project seeking to identify fabricated science, fake journalism and fraudulent academic publications.
In Washington, GNN journalist Samantha Holloway and Professor Tanya Copley team up with Australian researchers Liam Heathcoat, Elliot Hooper and Akiko Nakamura to investigate the global scourge of the multi-billion dollar trade in bogus scientific research mills. The death of one colleague and the hospitalisation of another portend the seriousness of the task at hand. With no suspect identified in either America or Australia, suspicions begin to turn to a non-human culprit… Could artificial intelligence be responsible?
Australian Professor Elliot Cooper quickly points out that the existential threat so many well-known scientists have warned us about AI may be founded on a misunderstanding concerning the true nature of artificial intelligence. Dr Cooper explains that the coding of the algorithms at the heart of AI is all a creation of human beings. Could something that we have created in our own image possibly be a threat to us?
TURTLES is Churach’s tenth novel, another electrifying technothriller exploring one of the hottest topics on everyone’s newsfeed – artificial intelligence. The tale’s central theme deals with the changing nature of truth… of reality. At a time when fake news, bogus research, staged photographs, AI-created video clips and publications filled with outright lies run amuck, TURTLES dares to ask if we stand any chance of returning to the days when most people agreed to a fundamental acceptance of what is real. In a world overrun by instantaneous communications, social media run wild, and the speed of change outpacing any government or regulatory body’s ability to manage it, can AI possibly help save us from ourselves?
A worldwide surge of brutal crimes results in a growing total of excess deaths within clusters of certain targeted occupations, including law enforcement officers, journalists, lawyers and academic researchers. Local police team up with the FBI, AFP and ASIO agents to search for the perpetrators of these senseless acts of violence. When dozens of physicists perish in a Berlin explosion, an out-of-control car kills two journalists in London, and three Sydney police officers die in a freak accident, Dr Hooper knows it’s time to act. Along with three of his doctoral students, he codes a replicator program sure to cure the aberrant AI once and for all until…
In Washington, GNN journalist Samantha Holloway and Professor Tanya Copley team up with Australian researchers Liam Heathcoat, Elliot Hooper and Akiko Nakamura to investigate the global scourge of the multi-billion dollar trade in bogus scientific research mills. The death of one colleague and the hospitalisation of another portend the seriousness of the task at hand. With no suspect identified in either America or Australia, suspicions begin to turn to a non-human culprit… Could artificial intelligence be responsible?
Australian Professor Elliot Cooper quickly points out that the existential threat so many well-known scientists have warned us about AI may be founded on a misunderstanding concerning the true nature of artificial intelligence. Dr Cooper explains that the coding of the algorithms at the heart of AI is all a creation of human beings. Could something that we have created in our own image possibly be a threat to us?
TURTLES is Churach’s tenth novel, another electrifying technothriller exploring one of the hottest topics on everyone’s newsfeed – artificial intelligence. The tale’s central theme deals with the changing nature of truth… of reality. At a time when fake news, bogus research, staged photographs, AI-created video clips and publications filled with outright lies run amuck, TURTLES dares to ask if we stand any chance of returning to the days when most people agreed to a fundamental acceptance of what is real. In a world overrun by instantaneous communications, social media run wild, and the speed of change outpacing any government or regulatory body’s ability to manage it, can AI possibly help save us from ourselves?
A worldwide surge of brutal crimes results in a growing total of excess deaths within clusters of certain targeted occupations, including law enforcement officers, journalists, lawyers and academic researchers. Local police team up with the FBI, AFP and ASIO agents to search for the perpetrators of these senseless acts of violence. When dozens of physicists perish in a Berlin explosion, an out-of-control car kills two journalists in London, and three Sydney police officers die in a freak accident, Dr Hooper knows it’s time to act. Along with three of his doctoral students, he codes a replicator program sure to cure the aberrant AI once and for all until…
378 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2023
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