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Sci-fi master Ted Chiang on AI, time travel and more

Fiction Science

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The Life Cycle of Software Objects

You addressed this whole question in one of your short stories, the life cycle of software objects. Can you talk a little bit about the process that went into knitting that story together? And whether this applies to what we've just been discussing about how the field of AI and the science fiction sense might progress in the real world.

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