The document explores themes of artificial intelligence, creativity, and existential questions through a series of abstract dialogues and references. It poses philosophical queries about the nature of creative thought in machines and the implications of AI on humanity's future. The interactions touch on humor, strategic analysis, and the uncertainties of technological advancement.

3. Do you know
what illuminates
the night?
Fuck you with
your logic.

5. It was the
anatomical oddity
of U.S. Gymnast
George Eyser, who
won a gold medal
on the parallel bars
in 1904.
He was
missing an
arm?
WHAT IS
A LEG?

6. I'd like some
information about
corporate decisions.
How they're made
and who makes
them.
Answer. Corporate
decisions are made by
corporate executives.
Knowledge converts to
power. Energy equals
genius. Genius is energy.
... Negative, negative,
negative ...
He considers
Everything.
He's become so
ambiguous now,
as if he knows
nothing at all.

7. Look, I'm
sorry you lost
your lunch
room. It’s not
symbolic.
No, it’s quite
literal.

8. The IBM 360
can count more
stars in a day than
we can in a
lifetime.
But what man
laid on his back
counting stars
and thought about
a number?

11. One inevitable
question which we have
been asked very frequently
before.
That is ... is Colossus
capable of creative thought?
Can it initiate new thought?
I can tell you that
the answer to that is

12. How many times a
week do you require
a woman?
Not “want” …
“require”.
Every night.

13. Pax, you're
wonderful. He's so
glib, I'll bet he
even has a sense
of humor.
He'd better
have! I paid
extra for it. Say
something funny,
Pax.
Don't put me
on, dear. I have a
sense of humor,
but I'm not
creative.

14. Yes. It launches its
missiles against the
targets in Russia.
Why attack
Russia? Aren't they
our friends now?
SkyNet fights back?
Because Skynet
knows that the
Russian counter-
attack will eliminate
its enemies over here.
In a panic, they try
to pull the plug.

15. Can a robot
write a symphony?
Can a robot take
a blank canvas
and paint a
masterpiece?
You’re a
machine.
An imitation.
An illusion
of life.
Can YOU do
either of
those things?

19. wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off
the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams
glitter in the dark near
the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments
will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
Time to die.
I've seen things you people

20. “Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.”
“Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.”

22. Read off random plot
index here, then look up
Hill’s book for details.

23. William Wallace Cook’s
PLOTTO (1928) much of the
Schank-era AI of the 60s/70s
as well as the cut-up method
and Case-based Generation.

25. Squadron carries
truncheon implosion
bombs … Negative. Will Not
Work. Central Prime
says truncheons can't
achieve velocity for
penetration.
Diving dead vertical
at 2070 knots will
increase truncheon
velocity. Bomb
will successfully
penetrate roof.

27. Mission
Integrity:
Lie to the
human crew
Frame #1 Frame #2
System
Integrity:
Honesty with
human crew

28. Frame #1 Frame #2

29. What if the
European Commission
gave us millions to
build an utterly
whimsical A.I. system?

36. One cannot will spontaneity
into being, but one can
introduce the unpredictable
spontaneous factor with a
pair of scissors. Indeed,
when you cut into the
present, the future leaks out.

38. That is
a bad idea.
I think so and so
does Cassian.
But what do I know?
My specialty is
STRATEGIC
analysis.
There
were a lot of
explosions for
two people
“blending in”
There is
a problem on
the horizon.
There is NO
horizon.

39. I have a cue light I
can use to show
you when I'm
joking, if you like.
Yeah, you can use
it to find your way
back to the ship
after I blow you
out the airlock.
That might
help.
Everybody
good? Plenty of
slaves for my
robot colony?

42. I am the Kirk,
the creator?
You ARE the
creator.
You're wrong!
Jackson Roykirk,
your creator, is
dead.
You did not
discover your
mistake; you
have made two
errors.
You have
mistaken me
for him. You are
in error!
ERROR?
ERROR?
EXAMINE.
ERROR?

46. CALEB: She made a joke.
NATHAN: Right. When she threw your line
back at you. About being interested
to see what she’d choose. I noticed
that too.
CALEB: It got me thinking. In a way, the joke
is the best indication of AI I’ve seen
in her. It’s discretely complicated.
Kind of non-autistic.
NATHAN: What do you mean?
CALEB: It was a play on words, and a play on
me. She could only do that with an
awareness of her own mind, and
also of awareness of mine.

47. Honesty, new
setting: 95%
Humor,
75%.
Confirmed.
Self destruct
sequence in T
minus 10, 9...
Let’s make
that 60% 60% confirmed.
Knock, Knock …
You want
55?

49. I’m going to
test that
hypothesis …
… by shoving
this light all the
way up your
event horizon
The
Development
of full
Artificial
Intelligence … … could spell
THE END OF
THE HUMAN
RACE.