Silent . . . Distant . . . Partner

It’s been done before, it’s being done again. A tale of 'It'. A tale of souped-up real intelligence using smart artificial intelligence to soup itself up even more. There is no moral up ahead apart from reality closing in, which is not necessarily a worse-than-good thing, just yet another step on a path of development, told with soft, soupy science fiction without the hard, cold, timelessness of science.