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WCDT strips 3741 to 3745 (May 14th - 18th 2018)
Shjade:
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 16 May 2018, 17:45 ---I maintain that there will be enough interesting about an AI/human relationship (between two well-developed characters, no less) that Jeph could tell a good story without them having to break up.
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I don't understand the persistence of the idea that a healthy couple cannot be the center of good stories without some gimmick involved or the threat of breakup stress/drama.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: BillGuy on 16 May 2018, 16:15 ---
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 15 May 2018, 19:49 ---
--- Quote from: BillGuy on 15 May 2018, 19:00 ---...strip 2085 brings Momo's reading the book 'AI Civil Rights: An Organic (can't make it out)'...
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FWIW, I read that title as AI Civil Rights: An Ongoing Debate. I could be wrong, of course, since it is rather impossible to actually make out most of the letters, but it does make sense when you consider the opening paragraph of the full text on Jeph's tumblr post is
--- Quote ---The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.
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Yeah, after closer look at panel 5 and reading that Tumblr post I'm inclined to agree!
After doing that post I suddenly desire to create a way to read QC but with only AI's featured as to parse out the AI storyline apart from the the rest of the cast.
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It would be impossible to parse the AI story separate from the humans. Their stories are so deeply intertwined that you could not separate them without dramatically changing the story. The most you could do would be a POV kind of monologue, such as Momo and May did earlier. But even that must necessarily include the humans, because the humans and AIs are so much a part of each other's lives.
DaiJB:
We've been informed that robot skin feels remarkably life-like...
So - what do robot lips taste like? :-D
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: BlueFatima on 16 May 2018, 17:47 ---I kind of feel like it could become a Pinocchio-type story where Bubbles works on becoming more human—not just emotionally—but her body as well with another appearance of Creepy Bot enabling her into a new body that is indistinguishable from organic people.
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Frankly, I don't see that happening. Bubbles and Faye have discovered their feelings for each other with Bubbles in her current body. I feel that it would be counterproductive - possibly even disastrous - for her to try to change that now.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 16 May 2018, 19:05 ---We've been informed that robot skin feels remarkably life-like...
So - what do robot lips taste like? ;D
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Tastes like chicken. ;D
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