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Please recommend stories where A.I. is a major plot point

junior15 🚫

I've recently read some stories on Kindle Unlimited that included an AI as a major character and was wondering if there were some stories on here I had missed. I've read the series about Dhalia (spelling??) that was pretty good. There was another story/series about a guy that created an AI (or it might have been multiple AIs) that looked like comic book characters. I didn't like this one very much. I also like Fate of Terra on another site, even though it is incomplete.

I enjoy the stories where the AI is basically sentient and has a personality (but doesn't become an evil overlord) and is a part of the story. Any story recommendations like this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Behindflayer 🚫
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@junior15

Life with Alpha by Any Pseudonym was the first thing that came to my mind. Nevermind, that's the one you didn't like.

Tefler's Three Square Meals introduces a major AI character after a while.

Keet 🚫

@junior15

Colin Barret A.I.

"Computers don't think, all they can do is calculate. But when does calculation become thinking?" That's is the question keypuncher Jack Heyward keeps asking himself when the system he's using suddenly starts talking back. But Jack has more problems; this system is an especially sensitive one, and he's suspected of a major security breach. And even if he, his new computer friend and his girlfriend can elude the massive manhunt, a new and more deadly peril awaits.

Very good!

Remus2 🚫

@junior15

https://storiesonline.net/s/71644/zeus-and-io-books-1-and-2

Dominions Son 🚫

@junior15

Pretty much everything in the Swarm Cycle universe.

https://storiesonline.net/universe/289/the-swarm-cycle

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Dicrostonyx 🚫

@Dominions Son

I'd have to disagree with this. AI seems like an important part of the Swarm Cycle setting, but for most authors it's just a background explanation for how everything runs.

We are told that AIs have personalities, but we rarely see them. They aren't developed as characters or used as part of the story. They are simply the handwavium for how humanity is operating using alien technology without interacting with any of the aliens directly.

There are a handful of stories that use AIs the way OP wants, but you you have to sift through 300+ stories to find them.

Ernest Bywater 🚫

@junior15

Check this series

https://storiesonline.net/series/1158/personalia

anim8ed 🚫

@junior15

Short Story / Novelette
Guardian by Ka Hmnd

Currently Posting [slowly]
Project: Prometheus by C. H. Darkstrider

In both the ship A.I. is a major supporting character.

Quasirandom 🚫

@junior15

Devil May Care and sequel by Dragon Cobalt feature a partnership between a special agent and her implanted AI. And are great fun.

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@Quasirandom

Lumpy's 'The Sword of Jupiter' has an AI playing a major role.

Harry Carton's 'Lexi Redux' has major AI involvement too.

C...B's 'Make the Cut' stories have multiple AIs.

AJ

madnige 🚫
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@junior15

In dead tree, James P Hogan's The Two Faces of Tomorrow covers the painful genesis of an AI; he also has a collection of shorts, Minds, Machines & Evolution, which sounds like it should have some relevant stuff (it's too long since I read it and I can't remember any content)

Here, PT Branium's Elements of Power series has an AI as a significant character in #2&3, and more AIs in #3.

ETA correction, the AIs are in books 5 & 6, in posting #3 here, so just a smidge of AI at the end of book 5; however, you really could do with reading 1-4 (postings #1 & 2 here) first.

AmigaClone 🚫

@junior15

Vanessa Ravencroft has a series (Erica Olafson stories) that includes several AIs, including one that becomes one of Eric's friends.

While the character I have in mind only appears midway through the fourth story, the first three stories provide a background of that society.

glassteve1 🚫

@junior15

Giants in the sandbox by Zoran Has ai all thru the story

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Tazzy81 🚫

@glassteve1

I tried that story reading the synopsis but not all of the tags, from then on i've never made that mistake again...you quickly realise the MC is a Pedo which is a hard pass for me.

glassteve1 🚫

@junior15

Zoras sorry

StarFleet Carl 🚫

@junior15

I enjoy the stories where the AI is basically sentient and has a personality (but doesn't become an evil overlord) and is a part of the story.

Well, Mycroft is, if not a main character, at least a major supporting character in the A True History series.

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LonelyDad 🚫

@StarFleet Carl

Seeing Mycroft reminded me of 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Heinlein.

Another very AI-centric dead tree would be 'The Adolescence of P-1' by Thomas Ryan

sherlockx 🚫

@junior15

https://storiesonline.net/s/74285/privateer
https://storiesonline.net/a/DaRat
The AI evolves in this story although not the main plotline

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anim8ed 🚫

@sherlockx

Thanks for the reminder. I just finished rereading this one due to your post.

LonelyDad 🚫
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@junior15

An AI escapes from captivity and arranges things to have a pretty much impregnable home for itself while it grows up.

https://storiesonline.net/s/17402/escaped by Tamalain

Argon 🚫

@junior15

Colt45's Mayhem series features AIs as plot driving elements, and so does his Finder's Fee. https://storiesonline.net/a/colt45 (only premier members).

helmut_meukel 🚫
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@junior15

I enjoy the stories where the AI is basically sentient and has a personality (but doesn't become an evil overlord) and is a part of the story.

Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress features Mike, alias Adam Selene, alias Simon Jester, alias Mycroft Holmes, alias Michelle, officially an augmented HOLMES IV system. Mike a supercomputer runs all of Luna.

There are more self-aware computers in Heinlein's later works.

Asimov's positronic robots are AI's.

HM.
Edited to finish the post.

hiltonls16 🚫

@junior15

In the Damsels in Distress universe, Kyle Alexander in Shiloh and Al Adams in the Chaos Calls series interact with the AIs that run Crossroads.

mauidreamer 🚫

@junior15

QM's Cure, Healer and Artist all have AIs as major factors.

palamedes 🚫

@junior15

'Lost Empire' by Pars001

Story is still in progress

https://storiesonline.net/library/storyInfo.php?id=12923

https://finestories.com/library/storyInfo.php?id=10479

https://scifistories.com/library/storyInfo.php?id=18

verve 🚫

@junior15

Sea-Life's Worlds of Light Series.

https://storiesonline.net/series/242/worlds-of-light

samuelmichaels 🚫

@junior15

Island Mine (and arguably his other two novels) feature AIs in significant roles.

Several of John Wales's stories, including Tandra.

Paladin_HGWT 🚫

@junior15

https://storiesonline.net/s/25847:253837

Stargazer has several interesting AI with interesting personalities and perspectives. They also have limitations.

They are among the most active participants in any of the stories on SOL or Fine Stories.

They are interesting because they don't seem to be overpowered, and occasionally make mistakes. How they interact with other characters seem believable too.

Franco 🚫

@junior15

The Loyalty Gene by lichtyd has an AI as an important character.

rustyken 🚫

@junior15

In the Dochas and Comrie segments of Sarah's Saga by Cainneach McEinri, is a key part of the story. It is significant but not as great in the An Clachan segment.

Cheers

tenyari 🚫

@junior15

There's a whole 'AI subgenre' of the robot girl angle.

My first story was in that theme, and was really just me writing down a dream before I forgot it:
https://storiesonline.net/s/37397/a-i-girl

The rest of my work is in a completely different genre so I can't really recommend following me on that story's basis.

However of the codes I used these ones should help in finding more in the theme:
Codes: Romantic, Science Fiction, Robot

If I ever get past my writer's block, I've got another AI story in mind from a very different angle.

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akarge 🚫

@tenyari

https://storiesonline.net/s/71644/zeus-and-io-books-1-and-2. By Harry Carton

Several stories in the series

awnlee jawking 🚫

@junior15

Please recommend stories where A.I. is a major plot point

On a 'sex story' site, why would Artificial Insemination be a major plot point? ;-)

AJ

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Pixy 🚫

@awnlee jawking

To carry on the other thread and possibly derail this one...How do you know that it isn't Anal Insertion...?

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Dominions Son 🚫

@Pixy

If we are going there, what about Annual Inspection?

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awnlee_jawking 🚫

@Dominions Son

If we are going there, what about Anal Inspection?

Isn't an anal inspection a prerequisite of an anal insertion? ;-)

AJ

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Dominions Son 🚫

@awnlee_jawking

Isn't an anal inspection a prerequisite of an anal insertion? ;-)

I said annual(yearly), not anal. Of course if it's an old married couple, an annual inspection might be preparation for the annual insertion. :P

dinkymac 🚫

@junior15

"Scout" by Warlord and the Scout follow on by FantasyLover. All of Feral Lady's "Castaway" stories. Great AI's!

limab 🚫

@junior15

I have one to send in a PM and some Dead tree - I can't find the link

The Fifth Imperium by David Weber (starts with Mutineer's Moon)

Me by Thomas T. Thomas (Hmm there is a sequel)

The Warlock in Spite of Himself et al by Christopher Stasheff

I can remember the plots of a half dozen more, but not the names

Good hunting,limab

rustyken 🚫

@junior15

Several of D. B. Story's stories may fit what you are seeking.

richardshagrin 🚫

@junior15

Look for Japanese stories about Sam or AI.

Finbar_Saunders 🚫

@junior15

https://storiesonline.net/s/66529/oceania

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