Searching: Good, engrossing stories about robot(s) and artificial intelligence

[Stephen Palmer]

AI is the theme of all my recent SF work: Beautiful Intelligence, No Grave For A Fox and The Autist.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Some short stories:
"I Made You" by Walter M. Miller, "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester, these are both a bit unusual, plus of course the robot stories of Isaac Asimov "Runabout", "Little Lost Robot" ect, a funny one is "The Proud Robot" by Henry Kutner, an inventor invents a robot when he's drunk, sober he can't remember what it's function is and it's not telling!

 

[Parson]

"The Proud Robot" by Henry Kutner, an inventor invents a robot when he's drunk, sober he can't remember what it's function is and it's not telling!

You are right. A really funny story about robots and especially robot invention. I would never have remembered the name or the author, but the story is unforgettable. I especially liked the parts about the banana peel and the can opener.

 

[Don]

Theodore Drown is a destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he’s keeping his head down lecturing at the university of the Moon. Twenty years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as they preferred to be called, emergences, have left Earth and reside beyond the orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere known as the university of the sun.

The emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one. Dr Easy remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore’s life. One day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first emergence. The secret living in that archive will take him on an adventure through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret off-world colony where Theodore must choose between creating a new future for humanity or staying true to his nature, and destroying it.

The Destructives – Angry Robot

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

I hope the book is as good as the blurb cos I'm going to download it, after I've had my tea