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Warning: Mild spoilers ahead. (credit: Tor/Orbit) Author Ann Leckie may not be the first to explore the consequences of ruling sentient beings and dueling AIs within a book, though her award-winning sci-fi novel Ancillary Justice and its sequels suggested there were still new storytelling ideas in the conceit. For instance, what if that dystopian-future lens […]
GUEST: Few sci-fi tropes are more reliable in enthralling audiences than the plot of artificial intelligence betraying mankind. Perhaps this is because AI makes us confront the idea of what makes us human at all. From HAL 9000, to Skynet, to Westworld’s robot uprising, the fears of sentient AI feel very real. Even Elon Musk […]
Earthling Priorities, much like the Space Quest games of long ago, involves a job, and silly things happening around that job. Maybe your employment isn’t as goofy or glamorous as being a space janitor, but you still have to go to work – but maybe while you’re there, you’ll still have a fun puzzle to […]
With the release of Cars 3 just a couple weeks away, Disney is ramping up the marketing for the Pixar Animation’s new sequel, which will focus on Lightning McQueen as we’ve never seen him before: old and outdated. Cars 3 puts Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) in a tough spot as he’s faced with the challenge […]
