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Point of View

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 First published in Boys Life (July 1975 issue) by Isaac Asimov, this Short Story is about a boy who helps his father solve a difficult problem facing Multivac.Roger's father works for/at Multivac and doesn't usually work on Sundays. But today is a Sunday and he's not home. Roger goes to visit him because he's worried. Despite normally being able to answer all of humanity's problems, today they've noticed that Multivac is giving the wrong answers.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Atkins is given time off to go eat with his son, and the two go to the Multivac commissary, getting burgers and fries. He describes the problem to his son, in layman's terms, and why they can't turn Multivac off to check where the problem is, mechanically. Roger suggests that they can fix it by not giving Multivac as much work, letting it "play" for a couple hours each day."Point of View" has been republished twice; Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (April 1979 issue) and The Complete Robot (1982).Not to be confused with a Half-Life 1 mod of the same name.
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 A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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 A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Multivac, the computer as large as a city, is malfunctioning in some unknown way, causing it to give the wrong answers to the problems given to it. Roger's dad describes it as being half-smart; smart enough to go wrong in very complicated ways, but not smart enough to identify what it is doing wrong. Unless they can figure out a way to make sure Multivac is working correctly, they won't be able to use it at all because they can't really tell when Multivac is wrong, only when it's inconsistent.
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 Affectionate Gesture to the Head
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 Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Roger's head gets tousled by his father when he gets worried that Multivac will be shut down due to errors. His father is trying to reassure him that everything will be fine.
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 Androids Are People, Too
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 Androids Are People, Too: Roger humanizes Multivac by describing it as another kid, and as anyone knows, a kid's got to play, too.
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