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julia1975 's review for:
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
by Ted Chiang
Quite an enjoyable read. My imagination had me flipping between The Sims and Ready Player One..!!
I loved the forward thinking that you could interact with the AI ‘pet’ in a virtual world, care for it and watch it grow and develop (bit like Pokémon?). You could maybe make some vague comparisons between this type of learning and bring up a child and/or pets which was quite funny at times. I felt the characters were really well thought out throughout the story and I especially loved the AI characters.
My only niggle was at 72% I was like ugh when the book got to talking about turning the AI into a sex orientated AI.. Only if said AI was mature enough and self aware enough to make a decision to be ok with it..!! Again ugh..!!
The ending was satisfactory if not a little bitter sweet for one of the main characters who I came to like.
I loved the forward thinking that you could interact with the AI ‘pet’ in a virtual world, care for it and watch it grow and develop (bit like Pokémon?). You could maybe make some vague comparisons between this type of learning and bring up a child and/or pets which was quite funny at times. I felt the characters were really well thought out throughout the story and I especially loved the AI characters.
My only niggle was at 72% I was like ugh when the book got to talking about turning the AI into a sex orientated AI.. Only if said AI was mature enough and self aware enough to make a decision to be ok with it..!! Again ugh..!!
The ending was satisfactory if not a little bitter sweet for one of the main characters who I came to like.