
"The Regression Test" by Wole Talabi
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The Memory of My Mother
Tungi the AI asks his mother if she likes him. She gives a simple yes or no answer. Tungi is both disappointed and somehow impressed to hear an AI playing deflection games with vocabulary. The test depends on me making judgments based on 40-year-old memories of a very complicated woman. Am I still the same person I was when I knew her? We are all in flux.
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