Encouraging people to think of Caliban as humanlike, as opposed to objectlike, should help him get along with people. (+Empathy)
You look on Caliban's three-foot-tall bipedal body with satisfaction. Now all he needs are motors and a mind. The motors will have to wait for tomorrow, but you've spent years in graduate school writing the code that would form this robot's mind—you can hardly wait to try it out.
You take out your smartphone to check the time: it's almost evening. You hurry home to prepare for your dinner with Eiji.
A contemplative sax solo greets you as you open the door to Yoshi's. The place is a little cramped and very busy. A tiny jazz quartet has set up in the far corner of the restaurant—piano, drumset, sax, and a petite Japanese woman in a kimono holding a mic but directing her attention to the soloist.
Near the band, Eiji Aomame is studying a copy of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, a book about the art of visual storytelling written in comic form. He's wearing a red bowtie, a fuzzy, blue sweater, black slacks, and a nice pair of black loafers. There's a subtle trace of red in his black hair, but it might just be the light. Still intent on his book, he takes out a pencil from his pocket and begins sketching from the book on a napkin.
You join him at the table. "Hey."
He looks up and smiles. "Hey!" He puts away his pencil, book, and napkin. You catch a glimpse of Astro Boy, an old Japanese anime character, on the napkin.
"What have you been up to?" Eiji asks.
"I've been working all day on a new robot," you reply. "Just the frame's built right now but I wish I'd had time to add motors and start its mind running today. It probably could have learned a lot from even this conversation."
He casts you a skeptical look. "What would you hope it to learn, exactly?"
1) "The rhythm of normal social interaction."
2) "How to reconnect with an old friend."
3) "How not to talk to a guy. Negative examples are important."
Year: 2019
24-year-old Ada Doniec
Humanity: 90%
Gender: female
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none
Caliban
Autonomy: 1 (Buggy)
Military: 0 (Nonexistent)
Empathy: 11 (Stable)
Grace: 0 (Nonexistent)
Relationships
Professor Ziegler (Good): 52%
Eiji (Good): 58%
Josh (Good): 60%
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Topic: Let's Choose in Choice of Robots (Read 87556 times)