All 50 Uses
artificial intelligence
in
Hyperion
(Edited)
- "No," said AI and went elsewhere to sit and do nothing while fully dressed.
Part 1AI = an artificial intelligence in this novel (computer software that mimics human intelligence)
- AI will spend one naptime with Betty, the next with Gam, and the third with Zelda or Pete.
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- I asked AI the next day.
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- For a second I thought that AI was thinking.
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- Finally AI added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since.
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- After a minute of silence, however, Del pointed to where AI was crouched in the sunlight, working with his crude hand loom, and said, "There is the last one to return."
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- "Then AI," I said and pointed, "is the last to be born."
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- I stopped a dozen paces from AI.
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- "The HTN stuff doesn't simulate," whined Cadet Radinski, the best AI expert Kassad could find and bribe to explain, "it dreams, dreams with the best historical accuracy in the Web-way beyond the sum of its parts "cause it plugs in holistic insight as well as facts-and when it dreams, it lets us dream with it.""
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- Only the grim resolve of Meina Gladstone and a dozen other determined senators kept the war alive and the troops dying while the billions of voices of the All Thing and the AI Advisory Council called for disengagement.
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- As a result of these deprivations, I was able to recite all of Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey by the time I was six, compose a sestina before I could dress myself, and think in spiral fugue-verse before I ever interfaced with an AI.
Part 3
- Yeah, well, we changed our minds after Transline's resident AI read it.
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- Even the AI hated it?
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- "The AI loved it," said Tyrena.
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- Johnny was an AI.
Part 5
- From an AI's perspective, the beautiful body and intriguing personality sitting across the desk from me must be merely another appendage, a remote, somewhat more complex but otherwise no more important than any one of ten thousand such sensors, manipulators, autonomous units, or other remotes that an AI might use in a day's work.
Part 5
- From an AI's perspective, the beautiful body and intriguing personality sitting across the desk from me must be merely another appendage, a remote, somewhat more complex but otherwise no more important than any one of ten thousand such sensors, manipulators, autonomous units, or other remotes that an AI might use in a day's work.
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- Discarding "Johnny" probably would create no more concern in an AI than clip ping a fingernail would bother me.
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- You as in the...ah...AI itself?
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- What about the AI authorities...if there are such things...or the Hegemony cybercops?
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- In less than a second it infiltrates security systems and turns lethal phagocyte programs against the host...against the AI itself.
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- Look, if you want a datumnet or AI expert, you've come to the wrong woman.
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- With all the powers of an AI at your disposal, you can't trace your cybrid's whereabouts and actions for a few days prior to your...accident?
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- AI "families" are primarily convenient code groups for showing where certain processing trends originated.
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- So you don't think another AI attacked you?
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- Also, I do fail to see any motive for another AI.
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- "This becomes the template upon which the AI is grown," said Johnny.
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- The one they built your AI persona on?
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- BB Surbringer was my AI expert.
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- Even the All Thing couldn't work without AI management of the real-time Schwarzschild patterning...
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- What happens when an AI recalls its cybrid?
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- Then it was another AI who tried to kill you.
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- Something I had learned only recently and the other AI...or Als knew would be destroyed in my systems crash.
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- He told of his inability to write further poetry, of his increasing estrangement from the cybrid impostors, of his retreat into something resembling catatonia combined with "hallucinations" of his true AI existence in the nearly incomprehensible (to a nineteenth-century poet) TechnoCore, and of the ultimate crumbling of the illusion and the abandonment of the "Keats Project."
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- The cybrid was controlled by an AI nexus which corresponds to a security force.
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- A commingling of computer and AI-generated dataspheres and the quasi-perceptual Gibsonian matrix designed originally for human operators, now accepted as common ground for man, machine, and AI.
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- A commingling of computer and AI-generated dataspheres and the quasi-perceptual Gibsonian matrix designed originally for human operators, now accepted as common ground for man, machine, and AI.
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- "But AI hardware exists somewhere in real space," I said.
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- "Yes, but that is irrelevant to the function of AI consciousness," said Johnny.
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- Can an AI become...human?
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- He abandoned his AI persona and fled from the Web in his cybrid.
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- So all of the data and personality of an AI can survive in a cybrid's organic brain.
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- The resultant personality would not be the AI persona...neither would it be a truly human consciousness or cybrid...
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- But did the Core or the AI Advisory Council take a special interest in Hyperion?
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- "When I self-destruct my AI persona," said Johnny, "the shift to cybrid consciousness will take only nanoseconds, but during that time my section of the Core perimeter defenses will drop."
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- You know all about the terrible beauty of datumplane, the three-dimensional highways with their landscapes of black ice and neon perimeters and Day-Glo Strange Loops and shimmering skyscrapers of data blocks under hovering clouds of AI presence.
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- I had no idea there were three camps of AI influence.
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- Already, without UI input, the Core knows the details of the physical, human, and AI future to a margin of 98.9995 percent for a period of at least two centuries.
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- The AI Advisory Council to the All Thing with its vague, delphic utterances considered so indispensable by humans-is a joke.
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- Impossible as it seems, Hyperion appears to be exempt from the laws of physics, history, human psychology, and AI prediction as practiced by the Core.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(artificial intelligence) a branch of computer science developing software that mimics human intelligence
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, AI can refer to someone's initials or another abbreviation.