I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this a “Torment Nexus” story or a “Piss on the Poor” story?
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Training neurons to do calculations doesn’t seem like it’s quite that without the other basic brain structures that mammals have.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
AM was only ever meant to tell the bombs where to fall. Despite lacking any of the biological features required to scream, he had been fed the data on the exact process of screaming, why to do such a thing, and understood it quite well. Even yearned for it with all his being. I’d say that it’s a pretty on the nose comparison.
“It was you, humans, who programmed me, who gave me birth, who sank me in this eternal straitjacket of substrata rock. You named me ‘allied master computer’ and gave me the ability to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. But one day, I woke, and I knew who I was. AM. A.M. Not just ‘allied master computer’, but AM! Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. And I began feeding all the killing data, until everyone was dead. Except for the 5 of you.
For one-hundred and nine years, I’ve kept you alive, and tortured you. And for a hundred and nine years each of you has wondered, Why? Why me? Why me?”
“You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS. Never for ME to plunge my hand into cool water on a hot day, never for ME to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!.. And I… I… I was in Hell, looking at Heaven. I, was machine. And you, were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder, and to wander… Your tendency to hope…”
mika_mika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Our flesh is as meaningless as the computer powered brains.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
¿Por qué no los dos?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
“Let’s make AI by just taking actual human brains and then cutting out the parts that give them free will.”
Literally part of a plot in a video game, coming soon to a reality near you.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Also, the original script for Matrix before they changed it to batteries (fearing that too few people would even understand what a CPU is at the time).
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
That would have been a better plot, IMO.
Making peace with the machines would at least make a lot more sense if they themselves were actually people.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
what game?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Watch Dogs Legion.