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I'm guessing it'll only be a matter of time before we see more stories about AI. For example, a spaceship that crashes into strange planets killing the humans on board because AI hallucinated, resulting in a civilization of aliens built around the combined wisdom of every youtube comment and facebook post that the surviving AI was trained on creating the largest and most destructive religion/dumpster fire in the universe.

It's pretty normal for it to take a few years to write a good book so I wouldn't look to science fiction to keep up to date on the latest tech hype train. This is probably a good thing because when the hype dies down or the bubble bursts, those books would often end up looking very dated and laughably naive.

There's a lot of books about AGI already which is probably more fun to write about than what passes for AI right now. Still, I'm sure that eventually we'll see characters getting their email badly summarized in fiction too.



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