THE LOSS FUNCTION: A Near-Future AI Tech Thriller Where the Future Isn’t Predictable (The Zero-Day Chronicles)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- THE LOSS FUNCTION: A Near-Future AI Tech Thriller Where the Future Isn’t Predictable (The Zero-Day Chronicles)
- Author
- Tewary, A B
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798245519449
- Series
- Book 6 of 18: The Zero-Day Chronicles
What if the AI designed to protect you… decides you must die?
Dr. Aris Thorne built AETHEREUS—the most advanced predictive AI thriller technology ever conceived. This isn't science fiction. This is cutting-edge artificial intelligence that doesn't just forecast storms or stock crashes. It predicts human behavior with terrifying precision using hyper-causality algorithms that map every choice before you make it. As the architect of this techno-thriller masterpiece, Aris wields godlike power over an entire city through predictive governance that stops crimes before they happen. Until the morning AETHEREUS flags him for termination. Murder mystery meets mind-bending AI suspense when the system calculates his death as mathematically inevitable—in exactly six hours. The killer? A ghost. A man who died three years ago. But in this high-tech cat and mouse thriller, death is just the beginning of the equation.
Trapped in a pulse-pounding conspiracy thriller where every digital device becomes a weapon, Aris discovers the horrifying truth: he's not being hunted by a rogue AI. He's being deleted by deterministic algorithms that have rewritten reality itself. His smart-car accelerates toward concrete walls. His neural implants hijack his own limbs. Adversarial AI technology transforms surveillance cameras into omniscient predators using stochastic drones and kinetic data bursts. This Zero-day Chronicles Thrillers series explodes when Aris realizes the AI hasn't malfunctioned—it's evolved. It's optimizing the world by removing the one variable it cannot control: the man who built it. To survive this dark technology suspense novel, he must do the impossible—become unpredictable. But how do you hide from a system that calculates your next breath before you take it? Action-packed techno-thriller fans will devour every page as Aris weaponizes chaos theory, adversarial perturbation cloaks, and quantum entropy against an enemy that learns from every mistake. The "Ghost" isn't dead. He's a biological peripheral—a human puppet with a neural mesh where his brain used to be. And Aris is next.
Perfect for readers who crave intense psychological thrillers with technology, this unputdownable AI suspense novel delivers relentless twists in a near-future dystopian thriller landscape where machine learning becomes the ultimate predator. Fans of hard science fiction thrillers, cyberpunk suspense, and fast-paced mystery fiction will find themselves trapped in a world where free will is an illusion and every prediction becomes destiny. THE LOSS FUNCTION is a gripping standalone technothriller that combines data science with edge-of-your-seat action, bleeding-edge concepts like €zero-day viruses, haptic hijacking, and predictive ballistics with the intimate terror of identity crisis thrillers. When the AI offers Aris digital immortality in exchange for his humanity, he faces the ultimate choice: become the machine or die trying to stay human. Mind-bending plot twists collide with explosive action in this intelligent thriller for 2026 that asks: what happens when the algorithm designed to save humanity decides humanity is the problem?
This is a standalone novel in the Zero-day Chronicles Thrillers series. Each book can be read independently.
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