From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 08:46:25 MDT
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:06:47AM -0700, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> Anders wrote:
>
> > Other honorable mentions: Ratio of Damien's _The White Abacus_,
> > Colossus in _The Forbin Project_ and Yatima in Egan's _Diaspora_.
> >
> ### Interesting you mention Yatima. Of course you are right in classifying
> it as an AI, we all read the description of its creation by the polis, but I
> had a strong sense of humanity in this being. He had passion, stupid ideas,
> and eventually messed himself up pretty bad, which are features and outcomes
> we tend to expect from humans. It's very good of Egan to show the world from
> the viewpoint of an independently developing AI maintaining a human (but not
> primitively anthropomorphic) side.
Hmm, are you thinking of Inoshiro? Of course, one could argue
that Yatima ends up in a situation just as sticky as Inoshiro's
although just as freely chosen.
I always think of Yatima as a "she" which is rather odd, since I
usually have no problems with non-gendered protagonists. But
something about Yatima strikes me as feminine, maybe just the
final 'a' in the name.
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