…the first eight lines of a book tells one if it will be a good book to read. Here’s the first eight lines of SofiAI:

“‘The man who created the world’s first autonomous, self-aware AI’. Professor Jonathan Laurence (Larry) Tusk laughed at the thought.  He wondered how his biography would read one day.

He was a man who exposed himself to a larger set of problems than most.  He was sitting on his haunches.  He stood up, his brown handcrafted thirteens, handcrafted by His Majesty’s Royal shoemakers, nonetheless, sunk into the muddy seep of the paddock he was standing in the middle of.

He knew he only had one shot at birthing the world’s first AI singularity.  Failure wasn’t an option he considered lightly.  Failure might be disastrous… or not.  He shrugged. He was standing in a deep valley high up in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand.”