Halloween AIs
Jan. 14th, 2018 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantThis week I dreamed I went to a Halloween party at a lake house, and the host had decorated with "Halloween AIs."
There was one that was like a large dog, and, like a dog, it would come and put its muzzle in your hand when it wanted attention. It was easy to sit and pet it and scratch behind its ears while you talked; it felt right, under your hand, the coarse fur, the warm body with the dangling ears just a bit warmer. Until you looked at it, and it had too many limbs. It had ears and a muzzle but didn't really have a head. It was Wrong in every way a creature can be wrong.
There were several AIs in the little wood between the house and the lake. They were programmed to pace you as you walked along the path, but always to keep an obstacle between your face and their faces.
Another of the AIs looked like a large and extremely tall man. The only thing he was programmed to do was to stand between you and the nearest exit. If you moved towards a different exit, he would quietly move to block that one. That was all he did.
It was creepy as hell, but it also seems like a valid marketing concept for the kind of people who buy motion-detector ghouls at Walgreen.
There was one that was like a large dog, and, like a dog, it would come and put its muzzle in your hand when it wanted attention. It was easy to sit and pet it and scratch behind its ears while you talked; it felt right, under your hand, the coarse fur, the warm body with the dangling ears just a bit warmer. Until you looked at it, and it had too many limbs. It had ears and a muzzle but didn't really have a head. It was Wrong in every way a creature can be wrong.
There were several AIs in the little wood between the house and the lake. They were programmed to pace you as you walked along the path, but always to keep an obstacle between your face and their faces.
Another of the AIs looked like a large and extremely tall man. The only thing he was programmed to do was to stand between you and the nearest exit. If you moved towards a different exit, he would quietly move to block that one. That was all he did.
It was creepy as hell, but it also seems like a valid marketing concept for the kind of people who buy motion-detector ghouls at Walgreen.