"True Love" by Isaac Asimov, A tale of artificial love

Recently, we've read the Sci-Fi story called "True Love" by Isaac Asimov. I don't like the term "Science Fiction" because the word "Fiction" compares it to unicorns, and other kinds of stuff that are completely impossible. However, some science fiction can be, theoretically, possible, given humanity enough time and research. In my opinion, it was a story that's mostly centered about the creator of an AI that's able to access everyone's personal information, that tries to discover an "algorithm" for him to be able to find their perfect match. This sounds weird at first, since one thinks that there's no "reliable" way of finding love, since love cannot be finded, love finds you. However, as Milton suggests, there are some ways to very accurately "guess" who would be a good partner. They literally pass through every women in the world, step by step, every time decreasing the quantity, until they end up with about 200 of them. Milton tells Joe (the name of the computer program​) to find subjects with similarities to celebrities, which reduces the amount to 8. Milton then proceeds to what he calls "interrogating" those 8 women, but he feels like something's missing. He then realized that it's a two-sided situation, he needs to also please the women in order for her to please him. Then, while they are making the result and they finally find the correct one, the police comes in and arrests him for getting into the people's personal lives, and a SUPER PLOT TWIST, Joe actually dates the chosen subject! In my opinion, it has been a somewhat... boring story at the majority of the parts, but at the end, I can bet that nobody thought that the program would fall in love with the chosen subject. I can agree that it was a very crazy and weird time, and I didn't​ regret reading it at all.

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  1. Carl EmmonsMay 16, 2017 at 11:12 AM

    Great job Diego! Good to see you moving along with the building of your blog.

    A few suggestions: Add a picture and check the capital letters in your title: Just Another Random Blog

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    1. Carl EmmonsMay 16, 2017 at 11:14 AM

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