Great Artists Steal: The Promise Of Creative AI

One particularly arresting moment in William Gibson's cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer, occurs toward the end when Case, the protagonist, meets the eponymous and anthropomorphized AI face-to-face: You're the one who wants to stop Wintermute. The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water…"To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. "Neuromancer," the boy said, slitting long gray eyes against the rising sun…"Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths.