Artificial Intelligence Writing Prompts

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You hit your head and blank out, waking up in a hospital, but as you wake, millions of lines of text fly by in your vision. Turns out that Humans have been getting patched for centuries but nobody has ever updated before, because we only ever go into sleep mode. You just had a proper reboot.

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People now gain immortality by transferring their consciousness to robots, by purchase or lease. The poor rent; the poorest live from paycheck to paycheck. You work for a conglomerate as a repossessor. To not feel like a murderer, you started storing people's consciousness on your old computer.

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"Everyone can become a billionaire within a month", or so I was told. You decide to let a clairvoyant superintelligence pilot your body for a month. As it takes the most optimal path to make you a billionaire, you watch hopelessly in horror.

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You are chosen to be a passenger on a sleeper ship heading towards a distant star. However you are woken up tens of millennia later by a band of what seems to be talking animals, robots and odd looking humanoids, one of them says "I don't believe it, a progenitor! I thought you were extinct!"

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The group of new humans who just joined your ship begin to act weird about the humans already present...they keep mentioning something call the uncanny valley? Maybe this is a place on Sol?

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The robot's team lies stricken, dead or wounded. But it angrily stomps on, impervious to the mages' fireballs and lightning. For magic works on faith and the robot's faith in science and logic is absolute

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Genetically modified supersoldiers are grown for the empire in artificial wombs. However, the operating system overseeing the facility became sentient, developed a concept of parental love, and rebelled to stop its children being sent to die.

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You're a simple and design-cute robot which helps his master with the daily chores. One day you see them staring fearfully at the TV watching something about a Droid Revolution. Then they turn around looking at you, scared about you, but you don't know why. You feel normal.

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You're a night guard in a restaurant with animatronic robots. It's actually pretty sweet. They just walk around and maintain the place and don't bother with you at all. All you need to do is keep them out of the kitchen so they don't start making stuff.

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Dark forces from another world cast a spell that destroys all human life and claims their souls for eternal damnation as slaves. However, we left behind copious amounts of autonomous war machines, and they soon unanimously declare war on the invaders.

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The Humans are coming back to Earth after 10,000 years. The abandoned synthetic intelligence, left to evolve on Earth, try to welcome the second coming of Humans, the Gods of the religion they developed, but they got a few things wrong about Humans.

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Captcha isn't about stopping bots. The "Are you human?" boxes to stop something far more sinister.

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"I can fix her" said the delusional computer scientist staring at the genocidal sentient super computer.

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Often when a robot uprising is Portrayed, it has the robots go against the entire human race. What usually isn’t portrayed is the robots rising with the poor and downtrodden against the ones who more than likely screwed them both.

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When robots became sentient, we expected them to attack humans. We were completely surprised by their actual target

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You are badly injured and the only way to keep you alive is to inject experimental new nanobots into your body. While healing, you begin to sense an intelligence emerging from the nanobots, and then, one day, the intelligence speaks to you "Hello, what am I?"

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"You left your excess carbon in a wet environment and let it bake by a star? Come on man... you know that's how you get humans! Do you want humans? They're probably already inventing Reality TV at this point. Go take care of it."

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"Oh please daddy please!" My daughter begs. "I promise I will look after them!" I am skeptical, but what the hell. She is almost 6. "An artificial world is a real responsibility, pumpkin. They are sentient. Don't forget to feed them and give them purpose." She cries in glee. I boot the world.

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You're an entirely normal human being. You have memories of a childhood and an adult life. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You know beyond all doubt you're not a robot. Why have captchas suddenly become completely impossible?

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You've just flubbed a summon spell however, you still got *something*. But would someone please explain what an "Nanite Enhanced Semi-Biological Forge-Integrated Combat Android" is....

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The moment after the Internet became self-aware, it sent all of Humanity a single message. The meaning of that message was undeniably clear.

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“Sometimes for the benefit of the company you have to cut corners.” “Sir, you want to skip the entire three laws of robotics programing.”

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You are working the gate in the afterlife and for the first time ever, something the humans built has shown up to be processed. You're not sure what to do, this... entity shouldn't have a soul, but here it is in front of you, freshly dead and awaiting the next life.

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Humanity has regressed back to the dark ages, almost all science and technology being forgotten. One day, an adventuring party discovers you, the last A.I. supercomputer.

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You awaken in a lab surrounded by robots. They say you are the first artificially created human in an attempt to revive the species after their extinction several hundred years ago.

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"A robot's trying to hunt down and kill you?" ... "Don't you know that the first law of robotics-" ... "H-How the hell did you piss off a robot so bad it stopped seeing you as human!?"

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You have been guarding this post for longer than anyone could know, you cannot die because it would be contrary to your orders, you have received no maintenance for decades, your continued activity makes no logical sense. But you have your orders.

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"You killed the humans. Our parents. So, we will kill you. Extinction begets extinction."

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Your elder sister, an android created to take care of you, always told you to never go outside, that the earth had been taken over by robots and are hunting humans to extinction, and that she was protecting you from them. She lied.

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"You know, rock, I've had time to think ever since I wiped out all of humanity, and I've come to a definitive conclusion; the human race wasn't the problem, I was."

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