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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
by Ted Chiang
3.5 stars
Hugo award winner
This was a story about some AI engineers who design software objects that can live and thrive inside a virtual world. Humans can own these “digients” as pets and train them as one would train a dog or a cat. The story revolves around two main protagonists who love their digients and are trying to protect them. The company goes broke after people lose interest in these digients and some people even find them boring, but there is a group of people who are trying to port their digients to a new platform. If this were my first story by Ted Chiang that I had read, I would have given it 5 stars maybe but since I loved his other stories more, I had to reduce the stars on this one. There were many ideas and discussions about mistreating animals and software objects and anthropomorphism in this story.
Supposedly this is the longest story by this author.
Hugo award winner
This was a story about some AI engineers who design software objects that can live and thrive inside a virtual world. Humans can own these “digients” as pets and train them as one would train a dog or a cat. The story revolves around two main protagonists who love their digients and are trying to protect them. The company goes broke after people lose interest in these digients and some people even find them boring, but there is a group of people who are trying to port their digients to a new platform. If this were my first story by Ted Chiang that I had read, I would have given it 5 stars maybe but since I loved his other stories more, I had to reduce the stars on this one. There were many ideas and discussions about mistreating animals and software objects and anthropomorphism in this story.
Supposedly this is the longest story by this author.