You're very right! Occasionally, I will put in a mention of a song as a call to something deeper in the lyrics, and I love it when people spot it. Thanks for reading, David!
send me your email and I'll send you a download of a robot story I wrote. I am considering writing one despite my current projects. A robot is hired by an AI firm to be a longterm substitute teacher for a school district. He somehow has been faultilybuilt: he has a conscience. There follows a nearly lethall series of ascendingly serious slapstick actions.
wonderful.Is this part of an ongoing novel " The Robot's Sacrifices", takiing readers on the picarsque journeys of a young robot? It could be a series. And the robot could fall in love either with another robot - pck your gender, or decide to the Robotic Priesthood ( no sex allowed Most of the time!), or fall in love with a human ( something kin to Blade Runner with Sean Young stealing the wholel show from the bigger "star". You do a fine job, with enormous potential as A Maker ( in our new ( and old - in some places) multiple maker worlds where the term I Want To Make ItBig is more than some narcisstic testosteone. "tightwad" ( see the new definitiion in the upcoming new edition of Webster's Dictionary.
Thank you for the feedback, Ernie! I have no plans currently to turn it into an ongoing series or novel, but I would like to write more robot stories. I don't write them often enough and enjoy it.
With all the negative predictions of AI, this is a breath of fresh air. As the songs go, would AI be better than the real thing, would they eventually be more human than human?
It's a great observation, and one that gets me thinking about the models that train AI, and whether or not they can be modified to encourage things like charity, sacrifice, mercy and peace.
And the robot knew greater sacrifice than man
He willingly gave of himself to save others.
His parts, pieces, geegas and gadgets
were taken from him and put in his brothers.
We can learn a lot from a willingness to help others at great cost. Even from a robot. 🤖
This story made me want to hug a robot.
It must be very powerful. 🤖💜
Thanks, Meg! I hugged our vacuum cleaner after writing it. That was the closest robot I could find.
What a terrific story, Brian. I really enjoyed it!
Thank you, Justin!
"Oh, yes, I'm the Great Pretender/adrift in a world of my own..."
Clearly, mentioning that classic #1 hit from 1956 wasn't just to fill space....
You're very right! Occasionally, I will put in a mention of a song as a call to something deeper in the lyrics, and I love it when people spot it. Thanks for reading, David!
The peacemaker’s innocence and willingness to please the mechanic made me think of Wall-E!
I love Wall-E, and whenever I'm creating a robot character, I have to keep myself from recreating his personality. 😁
Thanks for reading, Alexa!
That was a wonderful and touching story.
Thank you for reading and commenting, T. Dalton!
Humans are the worst!
I think we have amazing potential to change that!
Indeed. I'm motivated to try, evidently!
Maybe I should add the caveat: *most* humans are the worst. I actually like a lot of them here.
That's awesome you're motivated to change that. As am I. 😁
It is very much my motivation to be here, to write every day.
Thanks for the food for thought, Brian!
send me your email and I'll send you a download of a robot story I wrote. I am considering writing one despite my current projects. A robot is hired by an AI firm to be a longterm substitute teacher for a school district. He somehow has been faultilybuilt: he has a conscience. There follows a nearly lethall series of ascendingly serious slapstick actions.
Hi Ernie, I would like to read that. You can send it to futurethief@substack.com and I should get it.
Great story. I enjoyed it a lot. I hope that in the future Artificial Intelligence will prove to be so magnanimous. rferro0322@gmail.com
Thank you, Rudolph! I hope so, too. They just need to be trained with better models.
wonderful.Is this part of an ongoing novel " The Robot's Sacrifices", takiing readers on the picarsque journeys of a young robot? It could be a series. And the robot could fall in love either with another robot - pck your gender, or decide to the Robotic Priesthood ( no sex allowed Most of the time!), or fall in love with a human ( something kin to Blade Runner with Sean Young stealing the wholel show from the bigger "star". You do a fine job, with enormous potential as A Maker ( in our new ( and old - in some places) multiple maker worlds where the term I Want To Make ItBig is more than some narcisstic testosteone. "tightwad" ( see the new definitiion in the upcoming new edition of Webster's Dictionary.
Thank you for the feedback, Ernie! I have no plans currently to turn it into an ongoing series or novel, but I would like to write more robot stories. I don't write them often enough and enjoy it.
What a terrific story about being human. It's sad though that the Robot was a better person than the guy who beat him.
Terrific tale, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for reading and commenting, Carolyn! Being human doesn't need to be an exclusively human trait. 😁
With all the negative predictions of AI, this is a breath of fresh air. As the songs go, would AI be better than the real thing, would they eventually be more human than human?
It's a great observation, and one that gets me thinking about the models that train AI, and whether or not they can be modified to encourage things like charity, sacrifice, mercy and peace.
Great descriptions of the word and good character development too.
Thank you, Scott!