Companions - finished first draft
May. 2nd, 2014 02:43 pm
http://miriam-english.org/stories/books/Companions/index.html
You have four choices:
- read it online as a single page
- read it online as a page per chapter
- download it as a single zipped page
- download it as an epub ebook for your phone or ebook reader.
The story is, surprise, surprise, about different kinds of companionship (family members, friends, lovers, human-human, human-AI, human-dog, AI-dog) in a near future where AIs are fairly common. I examined a bunch of ideas that interest me. I hope they don't bore everyone else.
AIs are, of course, Artificial Intelligences. They are the minds inside robots and androids, and in some cases don't have bodies.
There are probably lots of problems with it. If you let me know of any that you find I'll be very grateful. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think, even if you can't make your way through it all 83 pages.