Chapter 23
GOD LAYER
Kip stood alone on the deck of the Dios a few minutes before dawn and looked out at the coastline, where the lights of Santa Monica were a dull shimmer through the fog.
Historians in the future, if there are going to be any, will divide human civilization into the time before yesterday and the time after, starting with this day.
Kip was often asked at seminars, “Where does artificial intelligence exist?” The audience members were not asking about the complex sets of algorithms written in Python and other languages, the ones and zeros that were stored in various types of memory. They knew all about that stuff—no, these inquisitive minds wanted more. Some were searching for metaphysical or spiritual answers, others for the religious ones, but all were asking whether
