re: #132 b_sharp

Hah. People can’t even calculate their taxes.

Well people of your time. This was in New Boston of 2682. What happened was that the AI’s determined that they could do pretty much everything better than humans could. However, unlike your science fiction of today, they were not malevolent. They needed to give the humans under their charge something to keep them occupied.

Really calculating Taylor expansions is not that hard - particularly through a neural link.

However, the AIs failed to take boredom, an sensation they do not comprehend into account. The AIs were simply ignored, voted out of office and later allowed to sit in the basement of NMIT for a few decades.

Ironically, as he AI’s looked for something to do, a young graduate student explained existentialist philosophy to them

The AI’s self terminated.

Their last message was. Cruel universe to be made by an incompetent creator and then have that creator prove it was all for nothing.

It was actually quite tragic.