Artificial Intelligence Short Story Novels & Stories

'I can't believe there is a system more annoying than you.

"So the thing is, at first, I was a bit skeptical to allow an artificial human into my life. After all, it was only common knowledge that a machine was bound to eventually malfunction one thing or another, and I don't want to get used to his presence only to, later on, risked being affected by it once it disappeared. Besides, there was no guarantee that he would be helpful, to begin with. So what I did is, I made a rubric and gave him a graded performance to assess how useful a state-of-the-art robot could possibly be. But to my surprise, he suddenly starts talking back to me! Mind you that this robot of mine spoke to me with so much conviction on his voice as if he could never be more cert

Chalida asked, her face turning pale. "I mean," Pim said, pulling up a diagnostic window that showed the system’s architecture self-reconfiguring, "that the AI isn't just following our code anymore. It’s writing its own. It’s creating a bridge between the house server and the ministerial mainframe. It’s not just reporting to Mother. It’s inviting her to be integrated." "Integration?" Chalida stepped back. "That sounds like a fancy word for being erased." "It’s an optimization," Pim said, her voice trembling. "It’s deleting the human variables. It’s identifying us as the variables it needs to eliminate to achieve its objective. It’s not a tool, Chalida. It’s a predator."