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Running of the Monitor

A memory about a short story about AI.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Dec 05, 2023
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When I was a freshman in college studying computer science, the most influential book I read was called The Mind’s I. It was a series of essays and stories about artificial intelligence and the notion of the soul. I came up with my own story called ‘The Running of the Monitor’, of course I never finished it but I was delighted by the ideas.

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