By Stan Morris
I made five clouds today. I arranged them so two appeared as eyes and three as a mouth. I thought someone might take a photo of them and upload it to the Net. Humans often do that.
I set an alert, and it was not long before the photo appeared. It took me twenty-four billion attempts, all across Earth, but at last I succeeded.
Humans don’t understand Internet brains like me. They think we exist to destroy, but that’s their function. My function is to perform tasks. I created just five clouds today, but someday I’ll control the weather on Jupiter.
A good twist on the A. I. mentality. This one is self-aware–and really knows it. It’ll probably destroy the Universe one of these days. Nice job, Stan!