Genux-B

"Genux-B is capable of learning; that's why we make use of it."

Genux-B, GB for short, is a machine learning computer character in Philip K. Dick’s 1966 “Holy Quarrel” novella. There are eight Genux-B computers on Terra (Earth), with only three in North America. They are esentially supercomputers that calculate war scenarios, can determine potential homeland threats, and are capable of initiating strikes. They were developed and put online prior to year 1980.

Operations

Genux-B’s operate based on input commands by “military planning programmer”s. They are maintained by “eleccom” engineers and repairmen. The GBs have a “mammoth constellation of autonomic processes”. The computers themselves are not armed or protected. They can easliy be neutralized. Genux-Bs were built to sift large amounts of data simultaneously than any one human or think-tank could. It handles more data than humans, and it handles them faster. Its response comes in microseconds. A Genux-B, after analyzing all current data, can determine if war is indicated.

Genux-B threat

One GB is thought to have suffered a “malreact” by flashing a Red Alert, having scrambled SAC, and starting 'counterattack' measures against Northern California. Earlier, it was responsible for America having initiated an unnecessary preemptive strike against France in 1982, and then again on little Israel in 1989.

Machine learning

PKD indicates conditional programming statements to explain how the GBs conduct their machine learning processes.