EPICAC was my favorite short story that we read during this unit. I found it weird how EPICAC was a machine designed to solve complex problems and how it ended up having human-like feelings. This made me ask myself "As scientists start programing robots to become smarter, is this going to eventually lead to them acting and feeling like we do?" It seems like a very far-off idea right now but I think that it could be very possible in the future.
In Eyebem, I found it weird how the robot seemed t think it was superior to humans. I also found it strange how they were sending robots out into the wild. To me, when I think of the wild I usually don't connect it to be inhabited by robots. In the end of this short story I found it ironic how he was the one who was struggling to survive instead of Mark. You sense the jealousy that Eyebem has towards Mark and his ability to adapt to nature.
Even though Mimicry isn't a traditional frankenstein complex story, it still follows a lot of the same elements of the genre. The main character Fen, becomes uneasy of the robotic servant that her father created to replace her when she married Frank. She becomes aware of its desire to mimic and become her. The robot starts to desire a life as the main character and uses a spell to transform herself into a human. This story kind of scared me because it brought up the idea of the robot having feelings of jealousy that ultimately made the robot try and ruin it's master's life.
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