• Run Program

  • By: Scott Meyer
  • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
  • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (2,540 ratings)

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Run Program

By: Scott Meyer
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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What's worse than a child with a magnifying glass, a garden full of ants, and a brilliant mind full of mischief?

Try Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence with the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. Hope Takeda, a lab assistant charged with educating and socializing Al, soon discovers that day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.

When Al manages to access the Internet and escape the lab days before his official unveiling, Hope and her team embark on a mission to contain him - before he causes any real trouble.

Soon the NSA is on Al's back, the US Army is fighting a brigade of mass-produced robots, and a wannabe cyberterrorist is looking to silence Al permanently. After months spent "raising" Al, Hope knows she's running out of time - and she's not sure she'll be able to protect him. Will she manage to control the unruly A.I. and quell a global crisis, or will Al outsmart them once and for all?

©2017 Scott Meyer (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Thank Heavens for Angela Dawe

Members only 85% sale. I purchased this book as a huge fan of Ms Dawe, l own over 100 of her reads. Don’t miss Julie Garwood’s Sweet Talk, great fun read by ms Dawe.
Sci Fi is not my genre but this had some fun dialogue which ms Dawe nailed. This author is not for me but this was a cute story.
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Not as good as magic 2.0, but not as bad as Master of formality

Well... Hard to follow characters thru the story... Not as good as Magic 2.0, but not as bad as Master of formality

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Interesting story

The story is worth a listen but whenever the reader is reading parts where it's "<character> said" all sound like they are from one recording or synthesized. And most dialog in the second half of the book uses said, hearing that so often really breaks the connection to the story.

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als the good guy.

enjoyed this. second te I have listened to it. one two three four five six.

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In a World Without Encryption

I actually enjoyed this book but I just had one major problem with it. Who the hell was running Office Smart while it's CEO was running around the world for three months. Seems kind of odd especially with the company going through the biggest crisis ever and everything. meh I'm probably overthinking it.

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great narration, weak story

not meyers best. By far the least interesting and most predictable plot I've read from him. great narration though.

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Fun

Silly, fun, diverting, light, tongue in cheek, yet oddly portentous. Ai does most everything these days. It’s taken over before we knew it was available. So what happens when Ai is programmed like a child is raised? What might it want to do? Better acted and well written. Enjoy.

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Another amazing success!

Mybe we just have a very similar sense of humor; whatever the case may be, Meyer has a way of making a story extremely entertaining, funny, and original. I couldn't stop listening until the whole book was finished.

Can't wait until the next book by Meyer!

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off-putting at first, fantastic once in.

Narrator sounds odd in sample. The narrator is odd at first and takes some getting used to but once accustomed she does a fantastic job. Fantastic story great ending!

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Probably one of the best potentials

I won't spoil it, but I will say I very much enjoyed this book and an glad to see AI getting some well deserved attention in this way. =)

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