glumshoe:

thedurvin:

glumshoe:

“Indistinguishable from a real human except for some weird eyes or skin tone” is… it’s fine, I guess, but I want more media in which androids fall squarely into the Uncanny Valley and have AI far more advanced than their bodies. Robots that think and act as people but still have creepy animatronic faces and skin that doesn’t fold right and no one can quite bear to look directly at them for longer than absolutely necessary. 

I want science fiction that doesn’t deny how often real-world technology malfunctions: androids with speech glitches where they hold their long O’s too long, or who idle by twiddling their thumbs way too fast, or who, like a printer that insists on a nonexistent paper jam, decide suddenly that they can’t go past an invisible wall. Androids that for no discernible reason are convinced that elevators move in the opposite direction they obviously move in and so they get hopelessly lost in office buildings. Androids whose faces periodically have to be taken to a licensed repair shop to be unlocked. Androids whose batteries overheat and catch their clothes on fire. Androids whose electronic voice starts overlapping with itself, simultaneously saying three synonymous versions of the same sentence.

Androids with really shitty facial recognition software that get really disoriented around statues and paintings. Android pareidolia has them glitching out and recognizing rock formations or tree bark or lumpy knees as human faces. Androids that were never programmed or trained to distinguish fiction from reality causing scenes when brought to live theatre performances because they see humans in danger or pain and spring into action to help them. Androids being told to take the fastest route to a location and scaling buildings and crossing through private property. Androids who experience sudden stupid errors that erase all contact data from their memories for no reason in the middle of a conversation and make you introduce yourself all over again and explain that the memories it has of a person that looks and sounds exactly like you, are really of you.