★★★☆☆ Average
(Near-Future SF) Sheru is a dog in an Indian city. He’s captured by researchers experimenting with deep learning. And he’s sad. (4,831 words; Time: 16m)
"The Right Way To Be Sad," by Shankar Gopalakrishnan (edited by Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde), appeared in Strange Horizons issue 04/30/18, published on April 30, 2018.
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Pro: Sheru gets away from the researchers and finds a new home.
Presumably the research involves combining a deep neural net with an actual dog brain to extract information from scenes. But the scenes show everyday suffering and pain, and the dog always projects sadness onto them.
Con: There’s no way researchers would let a valuable experimental animal roam free.
Nothing very profound really happens here. There’s no tension either.
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Presumably the research involves combining a deep neural net with an actual dog brain to extract information from scenes. But the scenes show everyday suffering and pain, and the dog always projects sadness onto them.
Con: There’s no way researchers would let a valuable experimental animal roam free.
Nothing very profound really happens here. There’s no tension either.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 04/30/18)
Shankar Gopalakrishnan Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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