brAInbender : Swiftshadow Group, Inc. : 9780999655443 : 0999655442 : 07 Dec 2018 : When Ann Sashakovich, starts her junior year at Stanford University, she decides to enter a DARPA-hosted contest to buildthe first sentient AI, capable of recoding itself. Her team's objectiveis to create a piece of code that can hack computers, orkeep computers from being hacked.Two mammoth computers play a game in which one ofthem can maximize its results by cooperating with the other, but at other times, one would have to cheat in order to win...and one of the computers does cheat.A computer becomes sentient when it senses that there isno winnable solution and then searches for others of its kindand attempts to assess their abilities.A group of Chinese scientists discovers how to teleportparticles, then molecules, from one location to another, regardlessof the distance between them.A Russian dictator decides to produce robot soldiers forthe battlefield and then triggers a war to test them out.When the