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It's the same in the Culture series. Near-God AI motherships manufacture combat psychopath AI ships by the thousand, which fight lower tech ships by overwrittin
by ovi256 5y ago
It's the same in the Culture series. Near-God AI motherships manufacture combat psychopath AI ships by the thousand, which fight lower tech ships by overwritting their CPU caches with EM effectors (very advanced versions of phased array emitters) in milliseconds, taking them over for their side. Rarely it gets to anti-matter and particle beams.
- pmezard 5y agoWell, "Excession" from the same series gets its fair share of psychopath AIs using anti-matter and particle beams during a few nanoseconds fight. From the same Iain Banks, "Against a Dark Background" features space battles where rules of engagement ban the use of AI-controlled weapons.