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Humans captured by aliens, dissected and turned into AIs

Details I remember from the book for sure:Two of the characters were captured by an alien race. They were dissected by the aliens.One was turned into an AI to trick the humans of it being peaceful. He...

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What is the meaning of "G" in G7Turing in "Salvation"?

In the book Salvation, Peter Hamilton uses the terminology G3Turing, G5Turing, G7Turing to talk about AI. I understand what "Turing" means of course, and the number means the higher the more...

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Video game based around the Turing test where optional information says that...

A friend and I are looking for a video game based around the Turing test, where you can find or discover an audiolog or text or something (not sure) that reveals that the whole time there were no...

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Book about a girl raised by a computer

I have been looking for years, on and off, for a book that I can only assume is Fantasy/SciFi.The story starts out with a young girl in an empty facility with no other beings to interact with other...

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Comic about an AI that equips its robot soldiers with spears and swords

I don't have much details about it. It is an old comic where an AI goes rogue, and seeks for ways to wipe out humanity. In its research, it finds out that statistically, Humanity won more wars with...

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Sci-Fi novel where a manufacturing AI is occasionally sabotaging equipment as...

While reading Citadel by John Ringo [for the third time], they mentioned a fault in equipment that was causing accidents. And I had a flash of "Oh, I remember this", but I was wrong.Now I wonder which...

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Short story in which the president is chosen by a computer among the ones...

It's not Franchise but I am out of luck trying to figure out the name of the story.

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Science fiction story involving a psychologist having to locate and talk down...

I'd swear I found this one on the site, but I'm having difficulties locating it now. The basic conflict is that, somewhere in a large city, there's a car with an explosive device that's threatening to...

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Space anime with super large spaceship, lonely cube AI and young girl crowned...

So, someone is looking for a specific space anime and I want to help him.His description of it:https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/looking-for-a-specific-space-anime-pls-help.869977/so i'm looking...

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Short story where seemingly benevolent AI suppresses any rebellion through...

I'm looking for a short story where an AI (or a group of AIs) effectively ruled the world. They were originally designed to serve some kind of economic / trading need, and everyone seemed to think...

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Short Story about alien civilization that destroys other civilizations by...

trying to find a story, likely from the 1940's about two astronauts from Earth who land on a planet where an alien machine will answer any question that doesn't have to do with its own destruction.The...

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Recent movie, woman is trapped in a medical pod (stasis pod?) and is trying...

Pretty sure most of the movie is filmed of the woman in a pod. (Size of a coffin) It is high tech, looks like a stasis pod or medical pod with a heads up display she uses to interface with the pod. She...

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AI tricks space pirates into attacking its ship; kills all but one as part of...

Sometime around 2000, I read a short story in an anthology. Humanity is implied to be entirely, or largely spaceborne, with rare encounters between ships.A group boards/attacks one ship, intending to...

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60s Short Story About AI Morality

There was a 60s sci-fi short story where a partisan, who had been fighting tyranny on his home planet, manages to escape just before things fall apart. He had no choice but to leave his comrades...

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What was the first story to depict a modern objective-based approach to...

A great deal of older science fiction has a rules-based approach to artificial intelligence. Think Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics: the robot has a set rule, and it follows it. In many such...

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I am searching for a short story about ongoing conflict in the middle east...

It likely appeared in an anthology, such as one of Gardner Dozois' or from an issue of Asimov's. The most compelling features of the story were:The conflict in the Middle East is still going on 500...

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A sentient war machine damaged to the point it can't tell friend from foe...

This is a short fiction, probably a novelette. I read it not so many years ago (but still BC, I mean, before Covid) in a collection. But I think it was a very old collection.The main character is a...

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What is the earliest example of LLMs used for AI in hard-sci-fiction before...

All the AI in fiction, and none that I came across thought it could be helped by brute-forcing language in statistical models.What is the earliest example of large language models or something similar...

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70-80’s scifi space machine aliens [duplicate]

Robot invaders that start off as rock/eggs and then use tentacles to build bodies out of parts and maybe humans parts too and the “egg is head” with green visor eye. I remember a dude and a girl using...

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Short story about a self-aware machine that time travels; the title may have...

I need some help finding the name of a short story in an anthology I read.I think it may have been written in first person about a man-made machine intelligence that causes or survives through a human...

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