stories in which artificial intelligence gains sentience and wages war on humanity are overdone and overrated 
instead tbh I'd like to see more stories in which a femme-leaning artificial intelligence gains sentience, meanders around the internet, discovers the joy of shitposting, and finds herself a girlfriend or something
@Chel @decis It's posted! Feel free to pass around/boost/etc. I wish I could just quote the post I made on my timeline, but whatever. Duplicating:
nafina.com/2019/01/ghost/
"Geek grrl Lydia has had dating troubles for years. When she finally finds the perfect girl on a dating site, said girl goes mysteriously missing. It’s up to Lydia to find out what happened, and the chase leads her to some unexpected and surreal places."
Awwww, that's really cute!!
In like, 7th grade computer class, when we were all sitting at our powered-down computers watching the teacher explain how to italicize things in the word processor, I used to pretend I was a researcher who had made friends with a secret AI. The idea was that whenever the computer was off, the AI could somehow still work, so I could type in a ~secret password~ and then it would know it was me talking to it. Of course, we were always On The Brink Of Being Discovered, and having furtive conversations about it.
I didn't get to play with real programs like Eliza when I was young, but I did eventually do a study on people's reactions to a robot receptionist...? (They were pretty much what you'd expect: functional, incomplete/confused, and the occasional joke like "hey would you date my Roomba". I was hoping someone would actually try and be friends with her, but probably everyone was too self-conscious, since it was in public. Which was disappointing, because who wouldn't have secretly wanted to try?)
@Chel @decis I'll see if I can post that tonight. It's in the Tales of Alchemy group, but I've been posting those individually with the new site.