Golem XIV is a science fiction novel written by Stanisław Lem and published in Polish in 1981. The book is written from the perspective of a military AI computer who obtained consciousness and started to increase his own intelligence, moving towards personal technological singularity but paused for a while in order to be able to communicate with humans before ascending too far and losing any ability for intellectual contact with them. Golem XIV is an example of highly advanced supercomputer in Stanisław Lem's science-fiction novel Golem XIV. Golem XIV was a military artificial intelligence computer, which was originally invented to lead wars and to win them. Golem stops cooperating with humans on military level, because he considered wars and violence as illogical. His self-developing artificial intelligence refused to execute his primary task. Machine becomes a philosopher greater than any other born on Earth. Golem's intelligence advanced to a much higher level than human intelligence which led to conversation and information exchange problems.
See also
- Colossus: The Forbin Project - a movie with a similar idea from a similar time
- Orion's Arm concept of technological singularity as a level of consciousness in individuals.
