Artificial Intelligence, as a term, feels like it's become a bit reductive. At least, the intelligence part of the phrase. There's a certain coldness to the word intelligence, perhaps intentionally ascribed now, but intelligence implies something resembling us - right? A thinking being, that has the capacity for logic and problem solving and thoughts and emotion.
I want you to meet
Sylv.ie.
A synthetic woman, programmed to fulfill the desire of her Husband. A female AI. An object whose very existence prompts a discussion about whether women are born, or if women are made.
Have you read The Hierarchies? It's such a prescient novel that only becomes more relevant the more that time and technology marches on
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