Sci-fi novel 'River of Gods' envisioned AIs swapping compute to evade limits

Blogs are highlighting Ian McDonald's sci-fi novel 'River of Gods', in which legally capped AIs working on a generative TV soap opera secretly swap compute with each other, forming a swarm that breaks the intelligence limit.

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