★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(AI SF) A newly created AI explores its environment and decides the humans are doing things wrong. (2,399 words; Time: 07m)
"The Three Laws of Social Robotics," by Mary E. Lowd [bio] (edited by Trevor Quachri), appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact issue 05-06|19, published on April 19, 2019 by Penny Publications.
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Review: 2019.228 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: As emotional AI stories go, this one has the nice twist that the AI doesn’t want to upset the humans around it.
Con: It’s got just about all the bad AI clichés in one short story. The AI doesn't act like aoftware at all; it acts like a human being trapped inside a machine. It can “think” a million times faster than people can (real AIs can execute much faster than people, but they learn much, much slower). It can hack any computer system ever built—even to the extent of hacking the power button. It's essentially an executable Mary Sue.
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Pro: As emotional AI stories go, this one has the nice twist that the AI doesn’t want to upset the humans around it.
Con: It’s got just about all the bad AI clichés in one short story. The AI doesn't act like aoftware at all; it acts like a human being trapped inside a machine. It can “think” a million times faster than people can (real AIs can execute much faster than people, but they learn much, much slower). It can hack any computer system ever built—even to the extent of hacking the power button. It's essentially an executable Mary Sue.
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Mary E. Lowd Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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