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 The Draco Tavern is the setting of a series of science fiction short stories by Larry Niven.Run by bartender Rick Schumann, the Draco Tavern is located at Earth's primary spaceport near Mount Forel, Greenland, and caters to a clientele that includes both humans and an ever-expanding range of weird and wonderful alien species. Some of the stories recount incidents at the tavern, while others feature visitors telling tall tales about their experiences on other worlds.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The stories originally appeared in various publications. The 2006 book The Draco Tavern collects the stories published up to that point. Several more have been published since.
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 A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with in "The Schumann Computer". Schumann asks an alien if their (much older) species ever developed an AI. She returns the next day with the plans for the most sophisticated computer their species ever developed. Schumann gets some investors together and builds the computer on the Moon so it will be isolated, but the trope appears to be played straight as the Master Computer manipulates them into granting it more and more power and sensors... then one day it just shuts down. Schumann is commiserating over the loss of his investment with some aliens in his tavern; they say the alien who gave him the plans is a notorious practical joker. Apparently the reason AI doesn't work is that the computer advances so fast it solves every question in the universe and, having no further purpose, shuts down. A later story depicts a more successful AI. This is explained as possible in continuity with "The Schumann Computer" as the more successful AI coming to the understanding that it cannot perceive the entire universe from its initial location even with the best sensors and thus choosing to travel the universe in search of more information.
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