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Boudreau's Ghost
Achilles Boudreau died in a notorious murder-suicide a century ago. He’s reputedly haunted the mansion where it happened ever since.
Zeke installs an artificial intelligence in the house for his Ph.D. project, with robots to do the AI’s bidding.
When Zeke brings Amanda to see the house, she’s locked in alone and the house sets out to kill her.
Is the ghost in control or is the AI going somewhere dark? Either way, Zeke it the only one who can save her.
Zeke installs an artificial intelligence in the house for his Ph.D. project, with robots to do the AI’s bidding.
When Zeke brings Amanda to see the house, she’s locked in alone and the house sets out to kill her.
Is the ghost in control or is the AI going somewhere dark? Either way, Zeke it the only one who can save her.
29 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 16, 2020
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August 20, 2020
Boudreau’s Ghost is a short story written by new science fiction writer Steven Fritz. Actually, it is a classic gothic horror story translated 150 years into our twenty-first century.
Amanda is a highly-regarded 20-something real estate broker with an active social and business life in a neighborhood that feels like Georgetown. As the story begins, she has temporarily sworn off men but has some undefined feelings for her life-long friend Ezekiel (“call me Zeke”), an obnoxious Artificial Intelligence doctoral candidate – good looking and bright, but no genius.
At Zeke’s invitation, she went to Zeke’s AI lab to apply a sort of Turing Test to Zeke’s latest program, named Achilles. Achilles is highly-aware, has good conversational skills, and has two avatars who handle the mechanical side of things. The most interesting feature of the lab is that it is inside of a well-maintained mansion built before the Civil War. And the most interesting feature of the mansion was its legend of a murderous lover triangle. The house may be haunted. Do the ghost and the AI inhabit the same body, so to speak?
The plot is great and builds off of our concerns about Alexa. The only well-developed character is Amanda. Steven has her doing “girl things” like eating ice cream after a rough date. These kinds of details don’t bother me, but then I am not a youngish female professional.
It was also unclear about the exact history of Zeke. I decided just to skip the fourth sentence to avoid confusing myself.
There was some good suspense as the plot reached its climax, although the “big reveal” seemed to come out of left field.
Boudreau’s Ghost is sci-fi that turns into a mystery that turns into a horror story. Pretty good!
Amanda is a highly-regarded 20-something real estate broker with an active social and business life in a neighborhood that feels like Georgetown. As the story begins, she has temporarily sworn off men but has some undefined feelings for her life-long friend Ezekiel (“call me Zeke”), an obnoxious Artificial Intelligence doctoral candidate – good looking and bright, but no genius.
At Zeke’s invitation, she went to Zeke’s AI lab to apply a sort of Turing Test to Zeke’s latest program, named Achilles. Achilles is highly-aware, has good conversational skills, and has two avatars who handle the mechanical side of things. The most interesting feature of the lab is that it is inside of a well-maintained mansion built before the Civil War. And the most interesting feature of the mansion was its legend of a murderous lover triangle. The house may be haunted. Do the ghost and the AI inhabit the same body, so to speak?
The plot is great and builds off of our concerns about Alexa. The only well-developed character is Amanda. Steven has her doing “girl things” like eating ice cream after a rough date. These kinds of details don’t bother me, but then I am not a youngish female professional.
It was also unclear about the exact history of Zeke. I decided just to skip the fourth sentence to avoid confusing myself.
There was some good suspense as the plot reached its climax, although the “big reveal” seemed to come out of left field.
Boudreau’s Ghost is sci-fi that turns into a mystery that turns into a horror story. Pretty good!
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