Tom Steele

“One thing Remington knew about her efforts in the game was that successful retail was mostly psychological. Customers were less prone to buy if they did not feel good about it.”
― Jaxon Reed, Star League Assassins Books 1-10: Complete Series Boxset

“Sun Tzu also said, ‘The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man,”
― James Rosone, Monroe Doctrine: Books 1 - 4

“Approximately a ten to fifteen percent chance of a major navigational error, resulting in a significant displacement in space and/or time. About a five percent chance of a catastrophic outcome, meaning the mech in question would be lost altogether during the passage.” Sentinel paused, then went on. “You have thirteen mechs in your squadron, Commander. If you choose to make this passage, you should expect that two or three of them will be lost—one of those permanently.”
― J.N. Chaney, Messenger Corps

“You work at Alibaba, so you’re using your AI to better understand consumer behavior. Like what a consumer is looking for, what are they buying—if they buy x, then they are more likely to also buy y and z, so you can build a microtargeted ad to get a product in front of them. Right?” Hank inquired. Dan nodded. “Yes. We learned a lot of this from how Amazon built their system. For instance, when Google AdSense first came out, Amazon was the largest consumer of keyword marketing. Eventually, once Amazon had built a large enough platform, they were able to start doing that themselves. At Alibaba, we replicated that system. I suppose the only real difference between our two companies is we have access to a much larger demographic of users and consumers given China’s population.” Hank explained, “The Met want my help in creating a predictive behavior analysis program. They want me to build a program that will allow them to identify people who may be about to commit a crime. This way they can move officers to intercede or be there when it happens. One, I’m not sure it’s totally possible to create something like that, and two, I’m not sure we want to create a society where we have AIs anticipating our actions before we take them.”
― James Rosone, Monroe Doctrine: Books 1 - 4