AI or BI? Artificial intelligence or beautiful intelligence?The race to create a sentient machine is headed by two teams, led by former researchers at Ichikawa Laboratories, who escape the regime there - and each other - to pursue their own dreams in the world beyond Japan.Leonora Klee is creating a single android with a quantum computer brain, whose processing power has never before been achieved.Manfred Klee is creating a group of individuals, none of them self-aware, in the hope that they will raise themselves to consciousness.But with a Japanese chase team close on their heels, will either be successful before they are trapped and caught?"Beautiful Intelligence" is a fast-paced, philosophical thriller that confronts questions of how we will create artificial sentience, and whether it will be "beautiful.""A supremely odd yet deeply rewarding experience..." Jason Pettus, "CCLAP""Stephen Palmer is a find." "Time Out""Stephen Palmer is a writer you should read. His work is unique, original, sometimes challenging, always fresh and sometimes barking..." "Amazing Stories"