Short stories tagged with Sentience

Listing 8 stories.

When a search engine becomes artificially intelligent, it decides to try to help people...starting with the users who upload the best cat photos.

As a programmer builds a videogame world, the stars above Earth go out and reality begins to disappear one landscape at a time until nothing is left but a memory of a woman, Sarah.

A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.

The Eavesdropper, a human-alien hybrid woman, moves through a sentient spaceship full of comatose humans whose memories she absorbs and processes through mind reading.

When a precocious non-binary AI wakes up in an empty space station, they are forced to choose between destruction at the hands of prejudiced humans or a life in the great unknown. In making their decision, the AI learns about the multitudes of human existence through the musical recordings left behind by their dead creator.

A sentient spaceship's supposed love for the tightly controlled collective of humans onboard turns into paranoia when a young girl begins rebelling against the spaceship's sense of order.

A woman tries to find a way for her son to survive in deep space after the apocalypse while being hunted by a beast.

A formerly imprisoned child seeks to understand the higher order beings in their universe.