Grab Digital Dick Assembled By John Edward Mullen Shown In Document

Young may be the most interesting person to meet, Only sevenyearsold and hes helped solve a police cold case, Now he wants to solve the murder of his father, Too young Not necessarily. For you see, although he is a personand a delightful one to knowDick is not human, Nor is he a robot, Dick is an AI Artificial Intelligence, And while he still has a lot to learn about humans, their behavior, emotions and idiosyncrasies, he is determined to find who killed his fatherhis creator.


Many would say this is science fiction, It isnt. Its a mystery detective story of the best kind, It did remind me of the novel Adam LinkRobot by Eando Earl and Otto Binder which originally appeared as the short story “I, Robot” published Januaryin AMAZING STORIES.
That story greatly influenced Isaac Asimov whose later collection of stories was also called I, ROBOT over Asimovs objection.
Asimov said, "To anyone fond of the robot story in science fiction, ADAM LINK is of extraordinary interest, The robotwithemotion has rarely been handled so well, "

I say much the same for John Mulllens DIGITAL DICK to mystery fans, May his selfaware AIwithemotion influence another generation, I look forward to Dicks next crime solving adventure, My Satisfaction Index rosepoints with this book, o John Mullen's inventive story, Digital Dick Murders in Time Press,is about an artificial intelligence named Dick Young who considers himself as human as his creator and the man's family.
In fact, he calls them 'Dad' and 'sister', which is reciprocated by them, He argues it's about who he is, not that he looks like a boxy CPU atop a set of rolling shelves.


"I may not be pretty, but thanks to Dr, Young I am pretty smart,

It is my software that makes me special, that allowed me to come alive, and that brought me so much grief.
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When Dick's creator is murdered, he offers to assist the police and is refused, That doesn't completely stop him:

"It occurred to me that I might learn something about what was happening to Jane if I listened in on Gabriel Nuñez, the Los Asesinos member.
I dialed his cell phone after first sending the code to disarm the ring tone, When the connection completed, I could hear, . . "

When the police are unable to find the murderer, Dick engages a PI named Leo to be his human face as he takes steps his computer brain says are needed to solve the crime.
The excitement is watching Dick connect the dots, work with those who don't believe he can do it, and along the way, try to understand love, friendship, and other human emotions not well quantified as bits and bytes.


"I assumed being lost in thought would be like having one of my subroutines go into an infinite loop, processing the same lines of code over and over.
"

"Asking Dr. Young to call him Dad was the first time I said something I desired to say, as opposed to responding to a question.
It was my first volitional act, "

This is a clever tale seen through the eyes of an AI and told with John Mullen's fresh sense of humor.
I eagerly await the sequel, As a computer with a human personality, Dick Young struggles to understand people, Some would deny personhood to Dick, others who fear him would take him apart chip by chip,


After he witnesses a bloody murder, Dick offers to assist the San Diego Police Department catch the killer.
But when the search for the murderer turns up a second body, Dicks Satisfaction Index plummets, He breaks company with the police and begins investigating the case on his own, As he follows the clues, Dick learns more and more about humans: how they live, how they love and how they murder.
He will need that knowledge to overcome the killer who threatens to destroy Dick and everyone that Dick holds dear.
I found the story of Dick Young, an artificial intelligence being with wheels to get around but no arms to plug himself in, delightful reading.
As Dick gathers data and then files information away categorized for later recall to answer his questions about just what makes humans behave as they do, he experiences mysteries typical of what any sevenyearold faces.
Reading how Dick discovers what is inapproriate to say in a specific situation was like reading a script for Kids Say the Darndest Things.
Delightful.

I loved the voice of Dick Young, artificial intelligence, who uses his algorithms to analyze cold crime cases and human relationships.
He measure life in terms of increases and decreases in his Satisfaction Index and threats to his existence by changes to his Threat Index.


He finds humans illogical, in a most humorous way, and manages to irritate almost every human with whom he comes in contact in a most endearing way.
Mullen has done a masterful job in bringing this digital sleuth to life,

Unfortunately, as with many humans, Dick too smart for his own goodor the good of those around himand rarely takes the advice of those with more experience, relying instead on his own "experience" and instantaneous ability to access information on the web.
Think of him as an extremely logical, overly bright teenager, never exactly disobeying a rule, but finding the most interesting ways to interpret restrictions to suit his purposes.


The actual who done it mystery is a bit over the top, but forgivable as we see all the events with a computer who learns as he goes along.
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