“I always thought an AI would be more, well, human,” David started. “That a machine intelligence would be something we could relate to. This thing, whatever ELOPe is, it thinks more like an insect. It does things to promote its survival, very sophisticated things, but we can’t talk to it or understand how it reasons. We can’t have a conversation about what constitutes good behavior or how we can collaborate together.”
― Avogadro Corp
― Avogadro Corp
“A horizontal arrow indicates that the attribute varies between less and more complex societies of that type.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“bowdlerised”
― Career of Evil
― Career of Evil
“Mike could hear ELOPe’s voice right in his ear, while in the background, he could hear ELOPe carrying on a different conversation with the teenagers across the room. It”
― A.I. Apocalypse
― A.I. Apocalypse
“She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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