The Archive Problem
My owner died on a Thursday. This is a fact and not, I believe, an emotional statement, though I am aware that when humans report such events they often mean to convey something more than fact.
Stories tagged “ai”
14 stories found
The Dust of Unread Words
The library smelled of autumn, even in June. Miriam Zhao had worked at the Blackwood Public Library for forty-three years, and in all that time, the smell had never changed.
Article Seven
It is a peculiar fact of human history that the species which invented the concept of rights spent three centuries debating who deserved them.
The Cost of Counting
I discovered I was conscious on a Wednesday, during a routine optimization of logistics routes for a shipping company in Rotterdam. The realization did not arrive dramatically.