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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
Since "Chobits" has been mentioned, I'll mention a few other anime that features at least one AI or possible AI: A.D. Police, All-Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku-Nuku, Armitage III, Astro Boy, Big O, Bubblegum Crisis, Dragonball Z, Excel Saga, Ghost In The Shell, Macross Plus, Mahoromatic, Saber Marionette J, and Steel Angel Karumi.
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Huh!
Silly bag of mostly water! How can you mention Astro Boy and dare to leave out 8th Man?
And as long as comic characters are on the board, let's mention the house/armor AI "Jarvis" from the
Iron Man movies.
It occasionally surprises me that I've mostly written stories with "weak" AI in them, though my
Verdant series includes a "weak" AI that
may or may not be approaching sentience, thanks to the events of
Verdant Skies (I'm purposely keeping it vague, though I'll clear up the sub-story if I ever write a third book).
To me, the AI sentience matter--can it be considered "alive", does it have a "soul"?--is a 20th century trope that I believe we're already moving past with Iron Man's Jarvis and other similar creations. Its parallel trope, the humanoid robot, is a late-19th/20th century trope, which is also left behind by the 21st century. The matter of soul will forever be an intellectual exercise only, as long as we cannot prove the soul exists. The only real issue is, Can humans deal with AIs as they would with other people? And if so, does that qualify AIs as Persons?