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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26344392, member: 27832&quot;]&quot;<a href="https://lecturia.org/en/short-stories/arthur-c-clarke-dial-f-for-frankenstein/20685/#google_vignette" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://lecturia.org/en/short-stories/arthur-c-clarke-dial-f-for-frankenstein/20685/#google_vignette" rel="nofollow">Dial F for Frankenstein</a>&quot;, 1965. Great story. I first read it as a kid sometime in the early 70s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not so much that everything was dependent on the phone network (although it was), but that adding so much complexity to it <i>accidentally</i> produced intelligence.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a common theme in early stories imagining the birth of AI. With the benefit of hindsight from The Future, it&#039;s seeming less plausible these days. Much more likely that some people or companies produce something they don&#039;t (and could never) understand, and it takes off in pursuit of its own goals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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