[He hesitates for a moment, and then moves to the next picture.]
...And that's Luka. Luka Megurine. She's... well, she was a Vocaloid, which is an artificially created being, meant for the purpose of singing songs composed by others. Basically, she was like an android or a robot. Though what made her strange was...
She was created with free will. In a sense, no different than you or I. The problem was she... wasn't really aware of it, and at first functioned like an android, needing a Master to follow orders from. Long story short, I became that person for her, but that was before I knew about her true artificial intelligence. I learned about it over time, and it was my job to help her realize her potential while still trying to arrange concerts and such for her.
[He shifted his weight back onto his heels, and slid his hands into his pockets. His voice got more serious and reflective as he did so.]
...To be honest, I wasn't very successful at either. Luka and I were very close, and we cared about each other a great deal, but... I kept making critical mistakes. Luka was a machine. She thought differently than you or I did, and I had a lot of trouble trying to communicate that she could think like us, make her own decisions and be independent if she wanted to be. Eventually, her AI started showing through, but she was terrified of accepting something that was beyond what her stated purpose was.
She thought she was broken. And I never was really able to convince her otherwise before she vanished.
[He loosened back up after that.]
...Still. Neither of us would've traded our time together for anything. Luka's the one that made me realize just how lucky I was to meet and befriend any of these people in the first place. She's the one who calculated the odds of these things happening being infinitely small... and with that in mind, it put a lot of things into perspective.
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...And that's Luka. Luka Megurine. She's... well, she was a Vocaloid, which is an artificially created being, meant for the purpose of singing songs composed by others. Basically, she was like an android or a robot. Though what made her strange was...
She was created with free will. In a sense, no different than you or I. The problem was she... wasn't really aware of it, and at first functioned like an android, needing a Master to follow orders from. Long story short, I became that person for her, but that was before I knew about her true artificial intelligence. I learned about it over time, and it was my job to help her realize her potential while still trying to arrange concerts and such for her.
[He shifted his weight back onto his heels, and slid his hands into his pockets. His voice got more serious and reflective as he did so.]
...To be honest, I wasn't very successful at either. Luka and I were very close, and we cared about each other a great deal, but... I kept making critical mistakes. Luka was a machine. She thought differently than you or I did, and I had a lot of trouble trying to communicate that she could think like us, make her own decisions and be independent if she wanted to be. Eventually, her AI started showing through, but she was terrified of accepting something that was beyond what her stated purpose was.
She thought she was broken. And I never was really able to convince her otherwise before she vanished.
[He loosened back up after that.]
...Still. Neither of us would've traded our time together for anything. Luka's the one that made me realize just how lucky I was to meet and befriend any of these people in the first place. She's the one who calculated the odds of these things happening being infinitely small... and with that in mind, it put a lot of things into perspective.