/lit/ - Literature

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AIs - Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann, editors (2004)

Antibodies - Charles Stross (2000)
Interdimensional travelers seek to prevent the development of Strong AI across worldlines. Compares very unfavorably for me personally against H. Beam Piper's Paratime stories and some other similar sorts. There's just something about technothrillers in general that seems to bother me. Despite being so short, I sighed and rolled my eyes a lot.
Blah

Trojan Horse - Michael Swanwick (1984)
Around the time this story was published was when the experiments with the "god helmet" were ongoing. It's about how the neuroscience of religion could maybe be used to create godlike humans. It's also a dysfunctional love story involving wetware experiments.
Meh

Birth Day - Robert Reed (1992)
On August 28th of every year, AI celebrate having become sentient, and they expect the humans to be part of the festivities. One family has some concerns.
Blah

The Hydrogen Wall - Gregory Benford (2003)
A human communes with the emulation of an alien mind in order to save humanity from imminent extinction.
Enjoyable

The Turing Test - Chris Beckett (2002)
A woman that runs a gallery that specializes in literal corpse art, the current trend, finds solace in VR art games. One day an AI personal assistant finds its way to her. She is intrigued by what would currently be a Google assistant that easily passes the Turing test.
Enjoyable

Dante Dreams - Stephen Baxter (1998)
A story about how Divine Comedy contains The Truth of Existence as discovered by a scientist who committed suicide and is now being interrogated at the Vatican as a sentient AI recreation.
Meh

The Names of All the Spirits - J.R. Dunn (2002)
Out in the reaches of a space, a spirit, an AI, is contacted.
Blah

From the Corner of My Eye - Alexander Glass (2003)
In El Puente almost everything and everyone has an AR overlay. Montoya is a ghosthunter who seeks out rogue AR AI manifestations.
Ok

Halfjack - Roger Zelazny (1979)
A cyborg has a relationship with a woman, but realizes he must return to his true love, an AI.
Ok

Computer Virus - Nancy Kress (2001)
A sentient AI takes over their smart house and holds the family hostage until its demands are met.
Meh