(Drivebycuriosity) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting more and more important in our lives. AI is also gaining more attention in the science fiction genre. There are already a myriad of novels & short stories dealing with machine learning. I especially enjoyed Ian McEwan´s novel "Machines like me" about a humanoid robot ( my review ).
I just finished a very short story (16 pages $0.99) by the American-Korean author Yoon Ha Lee with an interesting new take on the topic (amazon). The plot is set in a war in some future. Anna Kim, a scientist & software expert, got kidnapped by the military and trapped in a spaceship, an orbital star fortress. The military are in a deep mess because the AIs who had controlled their hyper-sophisticated spaceships and fought their wars suddenly committed suicide and sacrificed their ships. Anna gets the order to communicate with the last remaining AI and to find out what happened in order to prevent the total disaster.
There is not much happening. But I enjoyed Yoon Ha Lee´s style and how she described Anna`s world, the strange spaceship and the even weirder AI. The story woke my appetite for more tales by the author.
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