A Guide for Working Breeds, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

This is a fun but serious story commenting on worker exploitation as robots.  Employers are taking it in the face at the moment since with Covid-19 staff shortages people won't put up with garbage, but automation is progressing and an intelligent but indentured AI might be forced to.  Pretty fun relationship story here too.

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Fandom for Robots, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I liked the story. I'm just not sure I'd even call it speculative. Maybe alternate history, since it involves a one-off sentient robot from 1954. IRL, bots produce somewhat above average fan fiction, and have been for several years. Basically Computron is a self-training AI--it consumes a data set and then starts producing answers, which are refined by a trainer. It's 2018, we have those now.



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