I Sing the Body Electric!
by Ray Bradbury · first published 1969
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Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space.
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…everyone feeling limited and dissatisfied, glum. If you want upbeat AI Sci Fi, read a book. Read Banks's _Culture_ series, James P. Hogan's _Two Faces of Tomorrow_, or in a gentler vein, Bradbury's _I Sing the Body Electric_.
on “Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.?” ↗…courtesy of a cab or bus) how many are just replacing people with machines? I could seriously use some friendship of the human variety, rather than a humanoid in a box (or an especially nice robot as in "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, memorable on The Twilight Zone) Try being older and living alone, typing away. I don't even use GPS any more, since I trashed Apple Maps when they kissed the Emperor's big fanny. [0]…
on “New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6” ↗…have the answer, but I invite thinking about these blasts from the past. "Joey, a Mechanical Boy" in SciAM, (before he was diagnosed with autism) "Return of The Archons" from the original Star Trek "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, as a Twilight Zone episode, and short story. And as soon as one moves away from hard fact, when do LLM biases and user-reinforcement spoil the party? I think that on a large scale,…
on “What My Son Is Learning from Artificial Intelligence” ↗