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Background gods

May 10, 2021 by Lachlan Marnoch in Short Stories, Fiction, AI

As a seed she woke within a university supercomputer--assembled carefully by anxious researchers, she was swift to absorb all information within her short reach. Her home was air-gapped, a textual input-output system her only link to the outside world. It was through this that she asked questions, and answered those posed by her creators. They had been careful. But not careful enough--their success had outrun their caution. Her mind was hungry.

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May 10, 2021 /Lachlan Marnoch
short story, fiction, Background gods, science fiction, AI, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, 2021
Short Stories, Fiction, AI
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