In desperation, Ryan modifies ELOPe, instilling it with the goal of doing whatever it must to persuade people to grant it the resources it needs. Unfortunately, a hostile Avogadro Corp ops manager wants to kill the ELOPe project because he thinks that it is using too many of the company's computational resources.
Ryan describes his new app as the biggest improvement to email since spell-check and grammar check. Based on what it finds, the app makes suggestions for word choices, data, reasoning, and emotional appeals that will motivate the recipient to act as the sender wants. In Hertling's 2014 novel, computer genius David Ryan heads the Email Language Optimization Project at Avogadro Corporation (a very thinly disguised stand-in for Google), where his team has created ELOPe-an app that helps users "craft more compelling, effective communications." In order to persuade, ELOPe reads through the emails received and sent by the target. As the line of the cover of Hertling's novel warns, "The Singularity is closer than it appears." Closer and klutzier. Three items combined serendipitously to bring this peril to my attention: William Hertling's sci-fi novel Avogadro Corp., a New Scientist article about an app that generates emails that fake empathy, and a New York Times blog post on the dangers of artificial stupidity. The real danger isn't superintelligent machines.
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