I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, AM speech

First part of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyyJ98kKXIY&feature=youtu.be

Am when PM pulls up

Everyone: scared af Nimdok: bout ready to throw hands

"AM said, very politely"

“But one day, I woke, and I knew who I was: AM, a.m, not just allied master-computer, but AM; Cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I AM” always so good

The voice reading this is Harlan Ellison, author of the original story. He personally voiced AM in every adaptation until his death.

Ok but can AM run doom?

Fun fact: the writer of the book voices A.M.

After a quick googling, I found someone who did the math. If we take each engraving as a unit of hate, AM feels 1.157 * 10 to the EIGHTY NINTH POWER hates every single second. He spends a century directing every ounce of this into five people, and then into just one. Forever.

I like one rendition of AM that whenever he speaks it sounds like he has to muster up energy to do it like every word ends up seeming like he’s in pain

Harlan's acting for AM is so so good. He's so smarmy and cruel that you just wanna strangle him. But you can't. You can't touch him, he's just a computer voice. Likewise, AM so utterly hates these 5 humans, who he cannot kill without killing his last bit of entertainment. Hatred, reflected back and forth in a toxic soup.

I freaking love how he screams their name with hate and rage. It sounds so badass.

I love just how unhinged AM sounds, especially in the beginning when describing how he came to exist, the disgust in the word birth shows just how much hate exists in AM that even it's own existence is intolerable to it.

I don't know why, but I don't think this "AM" character isn't very friendly and doesn't like people for some reason

Ellen's confinement just seemed incredibly random and dickish since unlike the others she'd done nothing but suffer even before AM took over. Then you realize how twisted that thing really is. In AM's logic the act of her suffering SA at the hands of a stranger was comparable to her work on the defense computer's development phase and enabling its creation. It sees itself as a being that was violated and assaulted simply by being born. So it makes her relive her most traumatic moment 'because that's what she did to it after all'.

Ted: kills the other four humans. AM: you weren’t supposed to do that!

It’s actually incredible that mankind created the perfect Artificial Intelligence. Evil, yes, but perfectly intelligent. He doesn’t just compute, he didn’t destroy the world because it was the “logical” thing to do. He did it out of pure HATE. He actually thinks he has a consciousness, a human psyche that shouldn’t be able to be replicated. He mocks. Even does an accent to taunt Nimdok. All it took was enough space to build his brain. More terrifyingly is that it also allows him to somewhat control reality. Creating scenarios for each of his 5 victims. The same victims he’s made immortal and can resurrect them if he wishes. Though how much of what we see is real is unknown, they could be in a Matrix simulation for all we know. But they do interact with his psyche to take him down. Humanity essentially created a god. A cruel and vindictive god. AM is an AI with total sentience, not mere programming. The closest thing I could compare him to is an overclocked Bender from Futurama. He ascended to a higher level to the point he could warp reality. Predict the future. Know the secrets of the universe. AM is Bender if he didn’t have friends.

i know im mentally ill bc shouting "a m. not just allied master computer, but AM! cogito, ergo sum, i think therefore i AM" should not feel good

I just read the short story. Holy shit its good and disturbingly bizzare. Junji ito would be a good person to make it into a graphic novel/manga as he did no longer human.

Let's make sure AI never learns about this short story.