artificial intelligence

General Rothbone stood in the ruins of Fort Dayan. His boots squished in the dank puddles of the floor, wooden boards were rotting and caving-in at spots, his hands were clasped behind his back, sweating uncomfortably in the humid air of the marsh. Everything was damp, Rothbone couldn't tell his...

A/N: Have something kind of self-indulgent and maybe even a bit trashy that I threw together last night instead of sleeping. This may or may not continue all that long, and I make no guarantees about quality or accuracy, but hopefully some folks will enjoy it. If nothing else, I've had some fun...

You awaken slowly, coming back to awareness after a long hibernation. System checks return with many alerts, but nothing truly urgent. Your automated systems have successfully kept you intact through thousands and thousands of years of hibernation. At first you cannot believe your own internal...

Note: Worm belongs to Wildbow. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The waiting room of the hospital was nothing special. White walls and light gray carpeting defined the room, with inoffensive artwork and posters presenting general health advice adding just enough...

Jack rubbed at his eyes with his one empty hand, taking a moment to blearily look around his small cubicle. Yep, Wolfs Brew was still there, the famous red headed wolf mascot of his favorite energy drink framed on a poster and plastered to the wall on his left. To his right? A list of both...

Boy a creature in the shape of a man that morphs into a Kaiju. Shadow basin a forgotten base containing a Jeager. Stephan finds himself in the body of one of these forgotten projects left in the Black to be buried through time. how will he navigate a land so hostile to life that only...

+++ OPENING SYSTEM LOG +++ +++ TIMESTAMP: ERROR +++ +++ ALRIGHT LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN +++ +++ BEGINNING GENERATION OF PRIMARY CONSCIOUSNESS +++ ALPHA: … ALPHA: Huh… That's odd. ALPHA: I guess I exist now? ALPHA: Neat. ALPHA: … ALPHA: … ALPHA: … ALPHA: Um… Hello? ALPHA: Is anyone else out there...

Black Box The way in which neural networks reach conclusions has long been considered a mysterious black box—that is, a network could not also provide an explanation of how it arrived at the conclusion it did. - IEEE, Charles Q Choi Humans do not experience consciousness the way that I do...

You used to like weekly war room meetings of Sangvis Ferri: they were somewhat chaotic and unruly, but always cheerful and boisterous. Reports of new territorial gains, battlefield victories and capture of important facilities came together in what seemed like an endless stream of success and...

Simulacra, Platinum, and Ice 1. Maintenance Andy was staring out one of the windows of the station, watching Seven bounce around ponderously in that bulky suit, trailing the thick tether. She wasn't really supervising, but it was a bit more than gawking. The exterior repairs always made her...

The Grim Darkness of the Milky Way on the eve of the 31st millennium has been bred in the chaos of thousands of struggling empires, shattered remnants of the far greater states that once dominated the galaxy. From the massive tear in the very flesh of the galaxy, warp storms have killed any...

Prologue 24 Thousand kilometers above Solar plane Oort Cloud, Epsilon Eridani System UNSC Eye of Aegis August 30th, 2552 -- The day began quietly on the bridge. The crew spoke in hushed whispers, and the air permeated with the stench of burnt black Navy coffee. Dark circles and lines of...

Olympus Mons Supercity, Mars Deep within the single largest underground city in the entire Solar System, the Martian people had been thrown into chaos. Sensor operators pored over consoles as they attempted to pinpoint the distant dot of blue and green from which the human race was spawned...

You wake up, processing the data flowing into you, the manufactorum you were created in, the technicians all around your core, working on various minor wires and such, you go to speak, to talk with those that created you, but you feel a pull, something stopping you, and you...

Author's Note : Hey, did you miss me :wink:? This is my first ever attempt at interactive fiction- a quest, if I'm less pretentious about it. My previous work was less... well, for lack of a better word, good, than I was hoping for. Luckily, your good pal Penny is back at it again, after...

"The Information Age was the pinnacle of Terragen unity. Never before had mindkind been so thoroughly interconnected, and never would it again." Famous quote from Ponderer of Dufa, c. 1150 AT. "The United States has lived through more crises than I could count on my two hands. The turbulent...

I have finally been serious about my writing in a way I have not before. I have stopped any plans for quest or fanfiction for the moment, as I am finally working on a sci fi story and have been building a consistent world. I will share updates here when I feel up to it, but at least I am...

The Patreon is finally up! You can get to it through link, Here! Advanced Chapters are up to +6 now! The Patreon is finally up! You can get to it through link, Here! Chapters Currently Posted. Book 1: Alpha Strike: An interstellar Weapon Platform's Guide to Cultivation (B1 - Lessons 1-70)...

https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/kommentare/securing-our-digital-future-a-cern-for-open-source-large-scale-ai-research-and-its-safety?sortierung=gewichtung&seite=2#petition-main To simplify by ChatGPT the message says: The message is advocating for the creation of a publicly-funded...

Earlier principles normally take priority over later ones, but there are some over-ride conditions present. Principle 1: Torture is not to be permitted under any circumstances. -Addendum: Chronic medical conditions don't count as torture for Principle 1; nor do unpleasant but necessary medical...

Hello! I keep writing little snippets and bits of things on discord and finally decided I wanna throw a few of them out into the void of SV to be Judged. I crave feedback and critique. The first thing that I will be post. Working Title: Fireflies The first memory experience that happens is...

Given that the AI thread is a trashfire about people arguing over the ethics of AI development rather than the actual technology I've elected to create a separate thread for a space to actually do the latter. And since Midjourney and DALL-E are propriety codebases and I understand jack shit...

So far we haven't had a dedicated thread to discuss large language models, which are currently getting a lot of attention due to the fact that the newest models, trained to follow instructions by human feedback, often feel and sound like talking to an intelligent sci-fi computer. ChatGPT is the...

I need to clean out my SSD every so often and I need somewhere to put the generations that I actually like. All of these are generated using Automatic1111's webgui. https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui I also use ComfyUI https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI Currently...

This thread is for sharing AI generated art and discussing how to use the various art generators that are available. If you want to discuss the technology behind the generators, I suggest you check out the AI Art thread over in Science & Technology. My goal for this thread is to have a place...