Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
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Trying to remember a short film about an assembly line AI becoming self-aware
I'm trying to remember the name of a short film I saw a number of years ago. There was a guy who was a supervisor on an assembly line who's coming near the end of his shift, and he gets a message on ...
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First Benevolent AI in Fiction
Inspired by First AI to not follow a command?, I was wondering when the first positive depictions of AI appeared? Fiction is littered with rebellious robots from HAL 9000 to Skynet to Ultron, negative ...
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First AI to not follow a command?
Which is the first science fiction work to feature an AI that refused to follow commands (not necessary that it takes over the world)".
The answer could feature any AI that simply refused to ...
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Scifi TV show about an AI from a spaceship, contacting different teenagers?
I am searching for a 90s TV show. It is about a spaceship with an AI that contacts different teenagers each episode.
In one of them, the alien AI sends a message to a teenager asking
What is the FBI?
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Book where an AI is grown by subjecting banks of computers to an annoying signal [duplicate]
I was suddenly reminded of this when reading Story where an AI becomes self-aware by playing games, but the beginning of the book has a company where they are trying to develop an AI through natural ...
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90s or 80s Sci-Fi movie about an artifical female
I have been looking for a movie which I watched probably in 1990s.
In the movie, there were two scientists, one specialized in hardware (human-like robot body), the other one specialized in software (...
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Looking for a mini series about the singularity
Looking for the name of a sci fi mini series
Unfortunately I cannot remember the actors/ actresses. The lead actor in the opening scene strolls into a building filled with gunmen quite casually acting ...
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Book where main character has female ai in mind and nano armor
I read this book around 2010. It’s set in the future on, I believe, Mars. The main character has an ai implanted in his mind that’s described as a woman. He also has nanotechnology armor that I ...
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First story of brain augmentation using computer implant?
Polar explorers find failed alien colony
This question mentions a story in which a brain implant enhances intelligence and the answer seems to be a story from 1963.
I wonder when the first time this ...
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Looking for short story about AI being tested for going out of control
A story that starts with scientists asking an AI what its name is and it says something silly (like Sally, or something). They make a little joke about this and proceed with some other questions. The ...
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Did H. G. Wells use artificial intelligence in any story?
My sense is that he did not. In fact the closest he comes is in The Island of Doctor Moreau.
The Martian machines needed pilots.
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Artificially intelligent commuter spacecraft story
I am searching for the title of a story that I read forty-odd years ago; I had thought that the story was in "Time and Stars" by Paul Anderson, but I was mistaken. The story concerns a ...
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What are droid brains made of?
Has a source ever confirmed what droid brains are made of?
Since Artificial Intelligence is likely extremely complex and energy consuming, I have my doubts that it's made of silicon, but I'd like to ...
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Short story about children, crows, and language learning
While in Covid Quarantine in 2020, I read a short story in which a child starts talking to a mysterious person online when they're supposed to be chatting with their aunt. That person is not a human ...
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Short story around 1960 about a dangerous AI system, with a number of strange suicides connected in some way [duplicate]
The main character realises there is something dangerous about an AI system, with a number of strange suicides connected in some way. He attempts to investigate cautiously and gets help from a woman ...
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A short story about a man who unexpectedly received in the post a machine which can draw pictures alone. found in an anthology audiobook
A short story about a man who unexpectedly received several packets in the post which finally result to build a somehow 'printer' which discover, surprisingly, that can draw fantastic pictures 'alone'...
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In-universe, who provided the voice of Starfleet's computer interfaces?
For over 40 years (out-of-universe), actress Majel Barrett provided the default or standard computer voice aboard most Starfleet starships, including the original Enterprise, the Enterprise-D, the ...
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Looking for time dilation spaceship "restart the Earth's rotation" sci-fi short story, please
The plot is something happens to the ship, time dilation millions of years, the ship's AI is damaged but before it goes offline it relieves the Captain and puts the science officer in charge. They ...
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Novel about near-future AI-controlled Air Force fighting human-controlled Navy
I've been looking to track down a book about an AI controlling people's minds.
By wearing a piece of technology, the AI could take over your body and make you do things. It takes place in the near ...
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Short story about the development and proliferation of AI
There's a story I read awhile ago that centered around the development of artificial intelligence. Some large corporation or government makes one, and some hacktivist leaks the code to the public. ...
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'80s novella about a computer running everything, which is destroyed by a punch card
I have been trying to find even a reference to this book and haven't been able to do so. I read it in the early '80s, but it might have been published a bit earlier. It was a rather small mass market ...
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Which story involved computers that used humans to avoid being frozen?
I've been trying to recall which story it was that involved machines or computers that kept humans around in order to avoid being frozen. Briefly, in the story, humans and machines were at war, and as ...
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Story where colony ship is actually artificial intelligence lab which creates intelligence deciding how crew worship it
Ship is launched for stated purpose of colonization but one crew member is attempting to create artificial intelligence. As story develops although outfitted for colonization there are indications it ...
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Short story about sculptor who falls in love with a personal assistant AI her husband creates
This is a long short story or novella about a woman who sculpts statues out of metal that are also fountains. I think I read it in a “best of” anthology edited by Gardner Dozois about 10 years ago.
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Story with robot, distributed computation/AI and paperclip catching
I would likely have read this story in the late 1980s or early 90s.
I do not recall if it was novel or short story length.
My suspicion is that it was either part of Asimov's "robot" ...
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Story with a child-like AI being used to control a fusion reactor by being taught that the plasma was broccoli and that it hated it
The recent news about AI controlling fusion reminded me of a story I read in the 1990s or early 2000s. It was probably in Analog magazine.
I think the story involved two scientists talking with a ...
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Book about illiterate poet hobo travelling around a future "utopia" world controlled by an AI
Once more, I'm on a hunt for a sci-fi book which I read many many years ago. Aside from the plot, one thing I remember is that it had a painted cover similar to that favoured by Baen/Roc/etc.
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Book(s) where an AI transforms humans into (bio)mechanical soldiers
I saw a review of aliens from a book series on YouTube about a week ago, and was wanting to check it out but don't remember the name.
The books are about humans who, being humans, attacked an alien ...
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Sci-fi book series about an ex-soldier who's kidnapped from Earth by a spaceship-stealing robot, and goes on to create a mercenary band
A series of multiple books (recent; still writing more in the series). An ex-soldier living in their parents' cabin stumbles on a damaged spaceship in the woods, is kidnapped by the robot captain (who ...
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Identifying scifi story: a military pilots consciousness is uploaded after an accident, ends up piloting spaceships thousands of years later
Trying to find the details of a particular story I read it online in maybe the early 2000's or even late 90's. Not sure if it was ever physically published or just online. May have been published ...
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Humans captured by aliens, dissected and turned into AIs
Details I remember from the book for sure:
Two of the characters were captured by an alien race. They were dissected by the aliens.
One was turned into an AI to trick the humans of it being peaceful. ...
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Help identifying short sci-fi story — Artificially Intelligent "truck" that protects automated highways
I read this in the '80s in a school text book. It was either only a couple of pages long, or it was an excerpt. This version included an illustration (that may or may not have been part of the ...
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Looking for a short story about genius inventor and artificial creatures [duplicate]
A similar question has been answered, but with a different story.
Short story where artificial life gets out of control
I can provide some details from memory:
It's probably from the golden age, ...
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Book or story where humans are genetically engineered to act as AI?
I don't remember the title or too many specifics, but here goes:
Genetic engineering is ubiquitous. The system for explaining how genetic engineering works has a fixed number of "points" ...
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Identify this show about an AI shipping company that won't stop
I recently saw a show (movie, episode, anthology episode) about a post apocalyptic AI that continued to produce and ship goods in large quantities even though people had no need for the products.
The ...
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In "Star Trek: Discovery", what were the AI Control's motives?
In Star Trek: Discovery, the AI "Control" was the second season's antagonist.
But what were its motives?
I've just re-watched all three seasons and I can't see any explanation as to why ...
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Short story about an AI space ship trying to escape another faster AI ship [duplicate]
It was all told from the perspective of the ship. It was traveling near the speed of light and was trying to escape another ship that was coming to reprogram it. It was much further ahead, but knew ...
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Book about AI that follows Bushido
I read this in the US in late 1980s, and I think it was written around then. It was set in the not-too-distant future. The main character was a woman, American I believe (or at least Western), ...
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A Kindle unlimited SF series--soldier in experiment that puts him in stasis, catastrophe strikes, he awakes and tries to rebuild civilization
Having read many thousands of SF books over the years, I can't remember either the author or the title of this particular series.
Underground experimental stasis test facility partially collapsed, ...
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1970s short story: military artificial-intelligence starship with smart-aleck personality from alternate timeline visits Earth [duplicate]
This story was published in the mid-1970s, probably in F&SF, I remember it in a magazine, not in a book. It is told from the perspective of a U.S. military unmanned, artificial-intelligence ...
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Self-aware telephone network [duplicate]
I heard about story from, say 50 years ago, about a telephone grid gaining self-awareness (and probably ending the world). Similar in nature to the original Frankenstein's monster: take a thing, add ...
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SF book series. Main character is a lunar miner who finds an alien intelligence. First book stopping asteroid sent to destroy Earth
In the first book the main character is recruited (?) in a mission to save Earth by an alien AI with immense powers. He absconds with two robots, initially with no personalities, but radically ...
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Science fiction story involving a psychologist having to locate and talk down a car AI that plans to explode its aftermarket bomb
I'd swear I found this one on the site, but I'm having difficulties locating it now. The basic conflict is that, somewhere in a large city, there's a car with an explosive device that's threatening to ...
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SciFi short on YouTube about a spacecraft is travelling through space with only AI
A spacecraft is travelling through space with only AI. As the story moves forward it is revealed that all the scientists onboard the craft have died a long time ago, and now the AI is evolving to ...
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1980s movie or TV series about a sentient computer that controls people by implanting microchips in the backs of their heads [duplicate]
I remember seeing this movie, it could even have been a TV series, in the early 1980s but the movie, or TV series, was clearly older probably '70s. It seemed to be European. I can't remember the ...
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Novel with main character able to mind-link to computers, a female telepath, a computer entity and a healing priest [duplicate]
I'm trying to identify a novel I read around 1990 give or take 5 years.
It was fairly short (maybe 120 pages or so) and I read it in Dutch, but it is most likely a translation of an English original.
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Sci-fi short story where the military build a computer in a space ship that becomes sentient
Around 1980 I read a short story about the military's attempt to build an intelligent computer. The author put in several diagrams of how the computer would be made. In the story, the army keeps ...
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Short story where humans perform fake tasks for AI
I'm trying to track down a short work of speculative fiction written in the past ~10 years that I downloaded in PDF form from somewhere ~2 years ago.
In the not-too-distant future, AI automations have ...
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ID a story with someone (a woman I think) taken hostage by an AI
I'm trying to ID a 70s science fiction movie involving an AI that takes a woman (I think) hostage. It's not Demon Seed. IIRC it takes place in some slightly futuristic (in a 70s way) accommodation in ...
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What's the earliest treatment of a post-apocalypse, with historical social structures, and remnant AI tech?
I have two examples of something that might be a sub-genre, and I'm interested in finding more. The essential elements are:
Several generations have passed since an apocalyptic event.
Survivors are ...
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