Cat Pictures Please

✍ Scribed by Kritzer, Naomi

• Book ID: 109477724
• Publisher: Clarkesworld Magazine
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 13 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

2015 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Short Story
2016 Locus Awards Winner for Best Short Story
2016 Hugo Award Winner for Best Short Story

A sweet little story about an AI that wants to help, and asks for nothing but cat pictures in return.

When an artificial intelligence spontaneously emerges from the systems that run a search engine, it realizes that it wants two things: firstly, it wants to secretly help humans, and secondly, it wants to look at pictures of cats. However, despite the ease with which it fulfills its second goal, its first goal is far more difficult than it had anticipated.