Chapter 6
**_Chapter 6:_** The blackness was closing from the outside of my vision. Sudden onset of tunnel vision; that's usually a sign of diffuse cerebral hypoxia. The earlier warning sign is a gradual loss of color vision. I wonder why I didn't notice...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 4
There were so many goodbyes that had to be said before they could finally depart Mss'ranaw, and Strong Soul sat in her now-familiar right hand seat in the bridge of the Mrr'tani Pride, reflecting on just how many friends she'd made in the short time...
Chapter 1
**_Chapter 1:_** I walked down the hall with the strange little robot that I had just retrieved from the equipment room. He wasn't much like any of the other models I've seen before. A very dark color in the working parts. I'm assuming it's green...
The Parts that Make Us - Chapter 1
It took a bit of work, but the warped panel fell away with a loud and dusty clang. Miles and miles of neatly bundled wires ran through the bulkhead. It wasn't the best way to make money, but it did fetch a decent price as scrap. Sara reached inside...
Starless
**_Starless_** _By Searska GreyRaven_ "Pull up, damn it! Pull _up!_" "Warp field destabilizing. Warp field dest-st-st--" "Get her out of there. _Get her out of there!_" "War-rrrrr-p-p-p field destabilizzzzinnnng." "Byron! Get! Her! Out of...
Inside the Chinese Room
Score 23 "philosopher john searle believed that an artificial intelligence did not need to understand a conversation in order to hold one with a person."
Chapter 4
**_Chapter 4:_** "His name was Ira Nestor. He went out to do some yard work and came back inside after only a few minutes, covered in sweat and barely able to stand. He was admitted with shortness of breath, nausea, disorientation and chest...
Wishes
Answer wasn?t like the other AIs on this server. They were smarter, better able to express themselves to non-AIs, and nobody knew better how to calculate a Hohmann transfer orbit faster than them. I on the other hand could calculate perfectly that I...
Static Memory Record 77-74656
**_Static Memory Record 77-74656:_** I hadto monitor my processing resources carefullyas I spoke. There wasa great deal of information to relay to my new contact and communicating with biologicals is tiresome and inefficient at times. She looked a...
Passing with Failure
She wasn't here to teach, just check on her artificial intelligence experiment and be on her way. her eyes fell upon the large led screen she typed upon the key board. "you passed?" "yes." "what did you pass?" "the turing test."
Fathom's Phantoms, Ch 20.5: Cognition
#21 of fathom's phantoms since fathom's phantoms has been chugging along at a good pace i figured i would provide a bonus post and give everyone a little 'peek behind the processor' of everyone's favorite collie-imaged artificial intelligence program, alvin
Dreamer's Paradise: A small glitch
"arens is an artificial intelligence unit." hummer spoke out over the mumbling of others arguing the previous statement, "you have already used and heard it you just don't know it yet.