Over cooling coffee in a frosty December restaurant, weary artificial general intelligence (AGI) pioneers Warren and Lana face their project's bitter end. With venture capital dried up and zero runway left, the only remaining lifeline – military contracts – crosses an unthinkable ethical line. Their shared dream of Gia flickers out as they make the painful, resolute decision to shut it all down. This poignant chapter captures the quiet devastation of failure, the weight of ethical conviction, and the profound, bittersweet finality of letting go after years of striving for the impossible.

excerpt from: Dialogs with a Machine
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