"Scott Westerfield - The Movements Of Her Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Westerfeld Scott)The algae hunglike motes of potential in her path, invisible until she swam
through them, thewake of her energies like glowing sculptures. She choreographed her swimming toleave great swirling structures of activated algae.The AI found itself unable to predict these dances, to explain how she chosewhat shapes to make. Without training, without explicit criteria, without anymodels to follow, Rathere was creating order from this shapeless swarm ofejecta. Even the AI's pedagogical software offered no help.But the AI saw the sculptures' beauty, if only in the expansion of Rathere'scapillaries, the seemingly random firings of neurons along her spine, the tearsin her eyes as the glowing algae faded back into darkness.The AI plunged into an art database on the local net, trying to divine what lawsgoverned these acts of creation. It discussed the light sculptures with Rathere,comparing their evanescent forms to the shattered structures of Camelia Parkeror the hominid blobs of Henry Moore. It showed her millennia of sculpture,gauging her reactions until a rough model of her tastes could be constructed.But the model was bizarrely convoluted, disturbingly shaggy around the edges,with gaps and contradictions and outstretched, gerrymandered spurs that impliedart no one had yet made.The AI often created astrogational simulations. They were staggeringly complex,but at least finite. Metaspace was predictable; these simulations anticipatedreality with a high degree of precision. But the machine's model of Rathere'saesthetic was post-hoc, a mere retrofit to her pure, instinctive gestures. Itraised more questions than it answered.While Rathere slept, the machine wondered how ,one learned to have intuition.THE ELECTIONS CAME, and the radicals and their allies seized a razor-thinmajority in the planetary Diet. Isaah cheered as his craft rose through theocean. A scoop was within quantities of fuel, desperate to be thefirst scoop there.Rathere stood beside her rejoicing father, looking out through the recedingocean a bit sadly. She stroked her shoulder absently, touching the minder stillstretched across her skin.The minder's epidermal configuration had become permanent. Its strands weredistributed to near invisibility in a microfiber-thin mesh across Rathere. Itsnanorepair mechanisms attended to her zits and the errant hairs on her upperlip. It linked with her medical implants, the ship's AI taking control over thenuances of her insulin balance, her sugar level, and the tiny electrical joltsthat kept her muscle's fit. Rathere slept without covers now, the minder's skeinwarming her like a lattice of microscopic heating elements. In its ever-presentblanket, she began to neglect subvocalizing their conversations, her endlessone-sided prattle annoying Isaah on board the tiny ship."Zero-point-five-six?" muttered Issah to himself at the next customs sweep. TheAI was developing much faster than its ]parameters should allow. Somethingunexpected was happening with the unit, and they were a long way from home.Unless Isaah was very careful, the AI might reach personhood before theyreturned to the LC.He sent a coded message to an acquaintance in the Local Cluster, someone whodealt with such situations, just in case. Then he turned his attention to thelocal newsfeed.The heavy element market showed no sudden changes over the last few weeks.Isaah's gamble had apparently paid off. He had stayed ahead of the wideningripples of news about the ocean planet's election. The economic shockwave wasn'there yet.He felt the heady thrill of a scoop, of secret knowledge that was his alone. Itwas like prognostication, a glimpse into the future. Elements extracted by giantturbine from that distant world's |
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