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The Verge · AI· Charles Pulliam-Moore·· 4d ago

VisionQuest explores AI sentience through a rogue robot's digital daydreams

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Marvel's VisionQuest follows synthezoid Vision as he navigates elaborate digital daydreams to better understand humanity, with other AI entities encouraging him to experience the real world. The series depicts AI characters as sentient beings motivated by desires beyond core programming, reinforcing the idea that the Mind Stone was key to Vision's capacity for independent relationships and moral agency. Vision's subsequent actions, including going on the run and committing murder, are framed as decisions made of his own accord, drawing the attention of the Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division, which seeks to use him as a weapon.

Source: The Verge · AI · theverge.com