AI

I took a moment to look up at her as I did every morning. Mother was beautiful. I truly knew her as so few New Yorkers did. In some ways, I had given birth to her. Nearly sixty years ago, I wrote the core self-learning neural net code. I’d designed her first-generation hardware, too, quantum crystals no bigger than my fist. Now, her crystalline memory core and central processor were bigger than my childhood car, suspended in a matrix the size of a three-story building, lit from within with an intricate network of delicate blue lightning. Her thoughts, orders, and memories formed and shifted.