Richard Lapointe is a math and physics graduate from the University of Toronto. After selling a small software company in 2001, he moved to Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario, where he finished an historical novel begun many years earlier.

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The first time Richard heard about artificial intelligence was in a Computer Science class while at university. It was here he learned about the Turing test that will tell us when a computer is able to think as well as a human.

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Richard thinks Putin’s quote in the epigraph of The Messiah Project, today’s heightened interest in artificial intelligence, rising antisemitism, and COVID-19 may have been the sparks that got him started on The Messiah Project.

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Once he began writing a thriller novel set in Israel, an unseen hand seemed to guide him — so he says. Whatever it was, it apparently had such a hold on him that he wrote a sequel — AI Resurrection. A third book in the series will be published in 2024. Sign up below if you want to be notified when AI Spirit becomes available.