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Science fiction · Wit and tenderness
One Whole Euro
A robot for one euro. A whole life to understand.
A faulty machine arrives in a home accustomed to silence. Then she starts asking questions.
CompanionshipMemoriesHuman contradictions
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A robot for one euro. A whole life to understand.
He bought a FEMALE COMPANION UNIT on a secondhand website. He figured the worst that could happen was that it wouldn’t work. After all, it cost just one euro. He was wrong.
Vera is a decades-old artificial intelligence that never finished training, built to work as a household robot by a company that vanished decades ago. Her battery is worn out, one wrist is faulty, and she has a worrying tendency to take far too seriously everything humans consider normal.
She can calculate distances, times, probabilities, and costs. What she still doesn’t know is why anyone would keep a movie ticket for twenty years.
A witty, tender science fiction novel about AI, companionship, memories, and the things we can’t measure.
Maybe some useless things are more valuable than the ones that work perfectly.Read a sample on Amazon
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01
ELIZA · 1966
1966. It all began with a conversation.
An earlier question. By 1966, machines could already hold a conversation.
Not every conversation tells us the same thing about the person speaking. Some reveal more about the one listening.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s original paper (1966)02
Vera · VR-A7
03
Memories
How do you explain a memory to an artificial intelligence?
A one-euro robot. A lifetime of things to understand.
She can spot the flaws in a photograph in seconds. Understanding why someone would want to keep them takes a little longer.
Since she arrived, the most ordinary human habits have turned into impossible conversations. Between awkward questions, answers that are far too literal, and small everyday gestures, living with her begins to mean far more than expected.
One Whole Euro is a witty, tender science fiction novel about AI, companionship, and the things we can’t measure.
04
Understanding humans
Understanding humans takes time
In human language, “we’ll see” usually means “no”.
Artwork from the world of the novel.
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The lives inside the story.
A logic all her own
Vera
An obsolete companion unit with unfinished training, a worn-out battery, and a faulty wrist. She can calculate almost anything. Understanding us is another matter.
A home accustomed to silence
Her human companion
He bought a robot for one euro, thinking the worst that could happen was that she would not work. Vera’s questions begin to change the most ordinary things in his life.
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