I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Nanobots. Accurate gene-manipulation radiowaves. Lasers. Manipulation of quantum fluctuations. It doesn't matter.

>>9839223
this is Harlan's ham-fisted attempt to address the notion of the singularity. a lot of screaming, flailing about and shouting, but no resolution, like most of the short one's work.

Its pretty clear they're trapped under the surface of the Earth inside AM's complex. The author makes it clear the surface is hostile to life, the "ice caves" are under the North Pole and at one point Benny tries to climb through a hole onto the surface until AM blinds him.

>I don't understand how the computer is able to turn someone in a blob, for example

He's super intelligent. The story is told from the point of view of the humans being tortured by him, so they wouldn't understand how a world-encompassing computer works and to them it may as well be a wizard. Turning Ted into a blob is the least impressive thing AM does, considering he can summon a massive bird out of nowhere and make things materialize before their eyes.

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I hear you are all interested in technology and AI

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>>9842347
got over that years ago, when better writers had addressed it.