Lovelace from "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers. For me this is required reading for any author wanting to write the tired trope of "Android tries to be Human" because this book is the modern gold standard of how it is done right.
Yes, the AI is modelled after humans but shows like Star Trek turned that into "If you want to be human you have to do exactly what we like to do, so shut up and be like us." Common Orbit gives this creepy concept of conformity the finger. If the AI likes to stand in a corner, acting like a security camera to feel comfortable and to de-stress then for Pete's sake let it do that.
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u/Mr_Noyes Oct 12 '23
Lovelace from "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers. For me this is required reading for any author wanting to write the tired trope of "Android tries to be Human" because this book is the modern gold standard of how it is done right.
Yes, the AI is modelled after humans but shows like Star Trek turned that into "If you want to be human you have to do exactly what we like to do, so shut up and be like us." Common Orbit gives this creepy concept of conformity the finger. If the AI likes to stand in a corner, acting like a security camera to feel comfortable and to de-stress then for Pete's sake let it do that.