I used to study AI so a lot of this seemed very familiar (especially the frustration of getting an ai to work that would lead someone to say "Sod it, I'll summon a ghost and just pretend I got all the bugs out of the system."
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This story felt (far) too short given the premise and the point we had got when.....it stopped. I don't think that any of the characters were given any sort of resolution, even the possible 'reveal' of what the Indian AI had been up to all the time.
I did like that the question was left open whether it was Pramesh or the AI whose boredom was driving all of this.
I didn't get that from the story. The possibility that it was the AI who was responsible for the interesting conflicts, yers, but not that Pramesh could have been.
There was also the problem/idea of true, free intelligence having to find ways to stave off boredom, given that it couldn't die, was pretty all-powerful and had no particular physical needs, which I've not seen in stories before, I think. But this turns up so late in the story that it isn't taken further by the author.
Again, it seemed simplistic that you have 'bored AI' + 'pretend conflicts' = 'happy AI', especially as this is the furthest we are given as far as character development for the AI.
If this was made into a longer story I'd definitely read it.