Loved it! š In I Call Myself Iris, author Frank Paolino, an experienced IT pro, unleashes his imagination in the hi-tech AI landscape, resulting in a captivating and humorous story. Marco, an MIT student, creates Iris, an AI bot with much higher-than-human intelligence endowed to it. Designed to serve Marco, Iris is a caring, adaptive, full-time assistant. It is programmed with human emotions. In this story, it chooses to identify itself with the female gender. For the most part, this book is a humorous account of their misadventures together. However, towards the end, after Iris is released to a small audience, the author shifts to an extremely serious tone by discussing tough world issues such as the impact of Iris/AI on the entire human situation. Their follows the struggle for exclusive ownership of Iris that would ensue among powerful contenders like goverments, religions, Big Tech, political parties, intelligence agencies. The story is extremely hi-tech (and a little futuristic too). It aptly reflects the times we live in. Itās hilarious, brilliant, captivating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Donāt miss it ā itās a great, imaginative, new story that stands out! You donāt have to be a ātechieā to enjoy it but if you are one, thatās so much the better.
Raju Chacko