After watching “The Creator,” I felt the writing was AWFUL. Stupid characters, stupid setup, AI not smart. I want to read something – similar to “The Beast Adjoins” (though, that was only a short) – where I feel the writing (the characters and story) are STRONG.
by RockyBowboa
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Klara and the Sun
Edit: also, All Systems Red (Murderbot #1)
Robot series by Asimov
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambiyashi is all about how Ai and Humanity interact, and the AI are very inhuman. It starts with the main character receiving a jet with a new AI in it, and slowly covers the integration of AI into the war they’re having and the way it affects humans. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
I don’t want to spoil it but I really think it does cover ground you’re looking for.
Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss
Killday series by William Ledbetter might interest you
* The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie. You can start either with Ancillary Justice or with Provenance.
* The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
* A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. It is second in a series, but for the most part works as a standalone novel. It follows the story of side characters introduced in the first book, one of whom is an AI.
* Not a novel, but a novella. The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang.
* Excession by Iain M. Banks. Though it says this is part of a series, every book in the Culture series completely works as a stand alone story. This one is about the Minds, AIs that run the Culture.
The book you are looking for is The Metamorphosis of Prime Intelect by Roger Williams.
The WWW series by Robert J. Sawyer has one of the more interesting AIs I’ve ever found.
Although somehow, I have this nagging feeling that it will end up more like _After On_ by Rob Reid.
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for… “believable” being a word used in different ways. Anyway, Hyperion is definitely science fiction but I really like how the AI is portrayed in it. It’s pretty amazing how the author in the 80’s came up with the relationship between humans and AI, where the AI rather benevolently manages critical infrastructure and other systems for humans, but has developed/evolved so far from human understanding that humans don’t even try to figure out what it’s up to. At the same time AI has a dependence on humanity that humans DEFINITELY don’t understand, but they’ve coexisted this way so long it’s just… the way it is.
Of course they delve into the AIs’ “motivations” and “goals” and make attempts to understand it and intervene/participate.
The book ends on a cliffhanger though, rather upsettingly if you don’t have the sequel on hand.