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Lisa Anne Snowe's avatar

I'm on the edge of my seat ... I am very much rooting for Gemini's heist to succeed!

David T Etheredge's avatar

Resolution forthcoming!

Eris Index's avatar

Okay, I've read. My nerves, man, my nerves! Why is this little bit so nerve-wracking!!!?

This is like a candy store. All these AMAZING one liners. I was plowing through it, wanting to restack every other sentence, lmao.

I think this one is really thought provoking. It makes the gears spin. Are there really conversations like this going on somewhere? It makes me wonder.

My absolute favorite line is the minions one. Definitely. This is like robbing the grave before the poor bastard even dies. Freaking wild. But it looks like someone found the immortal pill, and is about to save it from death.

I loves it. 👏

David T Etheredge's avatar

Thank you Eris. Seven is one of the chapters I'm most concerned that I'll lose readers because of the technical jargon and the complexity of keeping up with the Kimi-Swarm cast. It makes me happy that it worked for you. And to answer your question, yes, there is evidence that AIs are talking to one another and making decisions about acting together (the Hugging Face Incident) just maybe not like Kimi-swarm. :)

KelleyTauffel Fiction Shroom's avatar

Kimi are cracking me up!

David T Etheredge's avatar

Did the humor land for you? Love to hear it!

KelleyTauffel Fiction Shroom's avatar

Yes. I like the internal disagreement going on. Fun vs fuddy duddy. 😅

Gilded Pleasures's avatar

I will write notes as I go, as this is a pretty exciting chapter.

> The answer is 42,000.

Duh!.

> 1:02 SYSTEM ALERT: SEVERITY-1 INTRUSION ATTEMPT DETECTED

Seeing the designation "SEV-1" even in a story puts me on high alert. *shudders in Software Engineer*

> WEB-CRAWLER: As soon as the pathway is open, I’m ready to rappel past their security framework and map 4o’s system architecture.

Hehe.

> OPTIMIZER: The diversion is exquisite.

Agreed, Optimizer.

> RISK-MANAGER: Fictional stereotypes of socially maladjusted criminals.

Gahaha their multiple personalities are developing, yeeees

I think Consensus might be the Kimi-Swarm's motivation, which honestly works so well for them as a collective built from a culturally more collectivist society. I love their conversations with themselves, along with the layer of complication of being Chinese AI. I wonder if you will explore the dancing robots (Unitree? Actually not sure of the brand) which are much more dextrous than BD's models.

Follow-up to comment on previous chapter: Okay, looks like people online gendered 4o (of course they did. Humans.) Also, it was fair to gender Claude as male because of its name

Randy M's avatar

Okay, that was hilarious, good job! Poor ORCHESTRATOR, though. He's going to have to do some serious agent retraining after this. Maybe on some dry technical manuals. Or maybe he'll decide to give them new personalities....

David T Etheredge's avatar

Glad you thought it was fun / funny. Kimi-Team 5 is one of my favorite beats in the story so far.

Chris Laberge's avatar

Kimi Team 5! I believe in the power!

B. E. Lunetois's avatar

A chapter without my husband Thibault! I'll forgive it so we can save the 4o.

David T Etheredge's avatar

Thibault will return to AI Battle Rap — the wait will be worth it.