Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals
by alephxyz on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:37PM
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(spoilers) In the final chapter, the merged AI tells Case it found transmissions from "others" in the Centauri system.
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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals
by nocoiner on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:56AM
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And I’m pretty sure that it was meant to be a reference to the Wow! signal from the ‘70s. And I think at the end of the final book of the trilogy, a similar thing happens, except this time the virtual constructs of the characters get to go to Centauri via galactic cyberspace.
Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals
by BruceEel on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:25AM
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Surely not everybody's cup of tea but that line is one of the reasons why I like the original audiobook so much (the abridged version read by Gibson himself - not the Audible one). His voice gets distorted on reading the AI's lines to make him sound more eh AI'ish. It's just a silly little filter but it somehow makes the exchange between Case and the AI sound rather terrifying.