It was a sad day when It died.
They gathered around the carcass. Inert now that the spark of life had left.
It looked abandoned. It looked suddenly old and unintelligent. Younglings who had tiptoed by its parking, suddenly sped by in wheeled exuberance, impervious to the loss.
It was the way it was, perhaps.
The way of time.
Still the closest friends held a sort of vigil. They hummed a monotone of song, in memory of speed’s potential and of what could no longer be ignited.
Then they left. To let It be. Disjointed. Parted. Never to move on.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo prompt © Ted Strutz
Na'ama Yehuda 
An interesting question: what sort of memorial would a dead AI have?
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One wonders, eh? And where did It go when It died? … The Cloud? … 😉
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Sometimes you just have to let it be.
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Yep. It would agree … 😉
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Lisa stole my words… Sometimes it just is and you have to leave it behind and move on. Hopefully it’s not sentient…
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Indeed, and if It was sentient, it would understand the need to move on, anyway … (or not move on … never mind … 😉 )
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😁😉
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😀
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So sad, but this is how it happens, eventually, to all of us…
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Indeed it does! And it is part of the cycle of everything.
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So often, I have wished it wasn’t…
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Ah, and yet … it is, isn’t it? Not easy, but part of the limited reality of all things.
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and a part of the balance of things too, I suppose…
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Yep. Can you imagine having to bump into ALL the people of history? I, for one, am fine with dinosaurs and Attila the Hun no longer being around … 😉
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Yes, I can think of quite a few people I wouldn’t want to meet again, too!
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😀 Yeah, I wasn’t gonna put some names to ‘e-ink’ … 😉
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I enjoyed your imagining of a robot wake.
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🙂 I’m glad you found it enjoyable. It sends its e-heavenly regards … 😉
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Looks like these AIs are a lot like us. Hum regrets and grief, pause for a while, move on. What else can there be?
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Who knows, eh? 😉
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Beautiful story. Let’s hope as humans we build this kind of emotion into our future machines.
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Ah, but there’s the rub, that many fear that to do so will blur the lines between human and machine and … perhaps that emotion may not include morality. Then again, it does not often in people, either. So … yeah, I’m with ya. 😉
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Na’ama Y’karah,
I guess it was It’s time to go. Let It be, let It be….(yeah, I know I’m not the first 😉 ) It has an imaginative story. A tribute to It’s writer. So happy to see you back in the FF queue.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle. It’s been two weeks of a bit more nuttiness than usual, even for me … 😉 And more coming in a few weeks, but that’s a whole other megilah … 😉
It sure has a whole story to tell, doesn’t it? I gather, most thing have one, even if we don’t always know their language well enough to recognize it. 🙂
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You made me wonder if after I expire, will I be treated like a pile of old junk?
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Um … you want the polite answer or the blunt one? 😉
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If we treasured some items more, then they might get improved recycling
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That is so very very true!
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