A Short Story set in the near future: What to do with Vitaly? SCENE 1: Battle over Destin Bay The sea was calm. The skies over Destin Bay off the North Florida coast were filled with moist sinking clouds. This area belonged to the Naval Training Command center in Eglin AFB, FL. Their mission was training Navy pilots, and business had picked up. They had found a better way to train pilots. The new drones, piloted by on-board AI (artificial intelligence)- were much quicker than the old remote-controlled drones. Best of all, the new drones could shoot back. The word got out to the pilots, and they all wanted to test themselves against the AI opponents. The bullets were just laser pulses, which in one sense made the bay the world's biggest game, played with real airplanes. The churn in...
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The Pet Lover Meow, squawk, cheep, growl, thump-thump. Maddie looked at the gathering in the kitchen, and exclaimed, “Everyone wants to be fed at once! I should replace all of you with AIs, like Barino, thenI could turn you off !” Of course, she didn’t mean it. She loved taking care of them, all of them. Over the years, she had hundreds of pets. Many were AIs, starting with “Lulu the FurReal Cat” when she was a kid. Lulu was probably still around, packed away in the garage in a box marked “Memories”. Barino was one of her favorites. He was quiet right now. He had plugged his mouth into the electrical outlet, to get his charge for the day. He heard her say his name. His auditory processors did the recognizing, and passed that information on to the cluster of computer chips in that made up his upper brain. His upper brain fired an alertness command to the processors in his head musculature. The upper brain had not yet analyzed the situation. That would take anot...