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![]() The idea is that it's like having one real person and one-half of a person - a point five - played by the computer.
Here's how it is experienced by someone else:
The SF-SD Axis that specializes in AI started cranking these things out. What you do is, you fill out this long questionnaire on your terminal, play a whole bunch of different simulations and puzzle games, and then they custom-produce one for you.” “A … partner.”
...The oculus was set on a small table in the corner, aimed to project at an empty space near Aynur’s bed. There, a woman flickered into existence—just insubstantial enough that he could glimpse the shadows of objects in the room through her flesh. She was sitting at a small table eating a bowl of noodles. She was dressed in a baggy T-shirt and athletic shorts, barefoot. She held a finger up in a “wait” gesture as she slurped up the rest of a long noodle, then wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. “Hey. Didn’t expect to hear from you. Aren’t you on a date? Is it over already?”
“No, he’s still here.”
Compare to idoru and synthespian from Idoru (1996) by William Gibson, personality simulator from True Names (1981) by Vernor Vinge, the Composite Expert System from Twenty Evocations (1984) by Bruce Sterling, the personality simulator in The Dosadi Experiment (1977) by Frank Herbert and Adam Selene from Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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