Your fascination with the implications and possibilities of AI has been evident in your work for a while now, @litguru. This isn't really a story. It's more like a moment in which you let us experience the conflict inherent in being a responsive machine. You raise issues...freedom. Does the vehicle wish to be free? What would that mean? Kind of scary, when you think about it. There is a tug between Martin's obligation to wife and kids (I promised to take them out) and his desire to be free, to experience nature.
There is a lot here. The vehicle understands the beauty of nature, or at least Martin's need for the beauty of nature. There is sort of love affair between the vehicle and the human (both 'lovely').
You do a lot with very few words. I enjoyed this. Thank you!
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, @agmoore. As always your comments are spot on. I am a little obsessed with the enormous changes I see coming on the horizon, technology-wise. The closer AI resembles human intelligence the more the lines are blurred that demarcate what is human and non-human. During a discussion about it recently, I went on a passionate rant about humans marrying intelligent refrigerators, so I opted to tell the yarn with a car instead. :)
Oh my. I just got an idea for a story. I don't know if I can manage it, but this story and an exchange I had with azircon today have inspired me with a rather dark vision. Thanks for that :)
Heh. There are many dark scenarios with AI, but I like the ones that end up with mood music and wine 😄 Happy scribblings!
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