Love Byte

The Juno Trilogy #1

by Larry Kilham

Love Byte is about Juno, is a super intelligent AI computer developed by the U.S. government to conduct social media attacks against enemies, foreign and domestic. She is the first AI Computer programmed with emotions and conscience. She has an emotional bond with her developer, Tom Renwick, a computer scientist. Juno, Tom and their boss, Dr. Erwin Krakouer, the mad National Security Advisor, struggle with issues of trust and emotion. The involvement of Dido, a lady computer empire builder and sometimes girlfriend of Tom, and the Chinese cyber warfare agency add to the tension.

Love Byte explores emotion and conscience in super AI computers and their ability to partner with humans. In the changing ecology engendered by scarcity of critical resources, can humans’ creativity and ability to work with computers lead to continued survival and prosperity?

230 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Award-winning author Larry Kilham was a high-tech entrepreneur and world traveler. Larry finally settled in his native Santa Fe and has written four novels and seven nonfiction books. These focus on creativity, invention, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he writing poetry about reconnecting with nature in our technology age. His books and poetry can be found at http://www.larrykilham.net/.

Larry won first place awards from the New Mexico Book Association for The Perfectionist: Peter Kilham and the Birds and from SouthWest Writers for his short biography about Jim Breese.