Who else is a robot

[jmtorres]

In case you were wondering, when Steve says, "Who else is a robot?" the person he's just learned is a robot is Pepper. Resultingly the Pepperbot fic is running at double-speed in my head right now--or, not even actually the Pepperbot fic, which is from Pepper's POV, no, I have the prequel in my head right now where Tony's programming her, before he's built her body, and it involves scanning in a major library and recording a crapload of classes and telling the school it's for a kid who physically can't attend (which is not a TOTAL lie) and one of the teachers being concerned about this kid's socialization, which leads to Tony also setting up video conferencing at random club meetings of anything his fledgling AI shows an interest in, and also, oh my god, he is her penpal as Edward because he just barely has the sense not to say his name's Tony because her childhood penpal should not be named the same thing as her future boss, and. Just. *flail.* Tony IS mentally twelve, so it sort of works out.

Comments

[sylleptic]

Pepper is a robot? This sounds fascinating and excellent! And I'm very amused by Tony ending up trying to give her a semblance of a normal childhood.

[jmtorres]

He's trying to make an artificial human! like, Turing-capable is nice and all, but JARVIS can pass Turing, sarcasm module did that trick. Tony wants to build something that can *pass.*

[niqaeli]

I am pretty sure Jarvis passes Turing better than actual humans do.

[jmtorres]

He lacks free will, though. I'm not sure he's totally Asimov'd up, that would probably interfere with his security capabilities, but he *is* Tony's. I'm thinking it's actually really integral to how he was programmed, that Tony taught JARVIS to have any independent thought by teaching him to anticipate Tony and remember the things Tony forgets.

[jackandahat]

I'm trying to imagine Tony's concept of a normal childhood.

...poor Pepper. (Poor Tony.)

[jmtorres]

He didn't know how to give her parents!

He gave her Sesame Street and books.

[jackandahat]

Hey, that's a start.

[echan]

omg this schooling prequel sounds totally adorable!