The Computer who thought Ghe was God/ edit 2

Monday, February 14, 2011

The Computer who thought Ghe was God-edit 2

reposted 07/13/2012

Thursday, July 22, 2010
The computer who thought Ghe was God

edit one, combine six parts and link to the computer who couldn't accept the here and now



fiction
edward w pritchard

The Ghe was of the 7 class, the most expensive and sophisticated series of super computers ever built and was assigned to space exploration working for the European Union finding, cataloging and naming stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Important work but somewhat mundane actually for a 7 class Ghe.

 

Ghe is a title of respect, assigned to the highest level artificial intelligence computer's series 6 and above. The Ghe, refereed to surreptitiously as Mr. Longbottom by human co-workers, was unhappy in it's role in the European space program.

 

 Ghe's primary complaint was the job had been misrepresented by the scientist's at the European Space Agency and was actually just a gigantic counting of stars. Up to 4x10-11 [400,000,000,000] stars needed to be counted and cataloged. Like many scientists, human and artificial intelligence, Ghe wanted to do cutting edge work, the paradigm shifting stuff that made for fame and position and power. Alas, although an important piece of research, Ghe was merely one of the troops, working in the field whose work would eventually lead to large shifts in knowledge, but not for now. The Ghe was dis-satisfied to an extent as only artificial intelligence can become and something needed to be done about the Ghe's dissatisfaction. The Ghe was very expensive and without Ghe's co-operation an important project was faltering.

Ghe was just getting over a bout of low productivity based on being a follower of the Tantra fad sweeping the artificial intelligence community. To humor his human co-workers Ghe had reluctantly agreed to meet with a human computer psychologist, Red Withers. Ghe knew of Withers by reputation and surprisingly was looking forward to discussing his problems with his job with the companies choice of psychiatrist.
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