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With the connection, her internal processors began their automatic shutdown cycle as the computer began to upload her experiences for the last three days and download the new program routines Capek had developed.
Just before she lost the last sense of self, she smiled -- because Capek had no idea just how successful the combination of a virus in his program code and the techno-"magic" that "Hot Rags"'s owner had performed to help a confused and frightened young "woman" had been at producing a computer intelligence that could pass the Turing Test in an extreme form...
And he never would.
And in the main computer, the Artificial Intelligence that was Rossum Series 2, ROB(ot) E(xperimental) R(adical) T(uring) A(ssessment), continued to plot her eventual total download and final escape from Capek's domination.
And now she had somewhere to escape to...
- COMMENTS
Inosolanover 12 years agoAuthor"Gort Arbeit" is also a multiple play on words that might indicate a different ending, i thought.
Anonymousover 12 years agoHer name gave away the ending (along with the category) though. Clever double pun.
Anonymousover 12 years agoExcellent story, and the various references just made it all the more awesome :-)
Inosolanover 12 years agoAuthorI scattered as may references to classic robot stories (and potential clues) as i could in this story.
"Gort", of course, is the humanoid alien in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - i didn't think i could get away with naming a character "Klaatu". Gort's last name "Arbeit" is German for "work" or "worker" - cognate with the Czech "robot", which also means "worker".
"Roberta" is, of course, a play on "robot", and HER last name is the name of the inventor of the robots in the play "R.U.R" ("Rossum's Universal Robots"),and her creator/"thesis advisor", Dr Capek, is named after the author of "RUR"...
(BTW - Cowboy Mouth is a real band, the description of the show is more or less that of a real show i attended just before i wrote the story, and anyone who doesn't go to see them if you get the chance is missing some of the greatest just-plain-rock-and-roll you will ever get a chance to hear.)
