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12022-04-04T20:06:38-07:00Gwyneth Cheung Lok-Chi10b39212f125261837ce25792aed5e7550b1945c404535plain2022-04-13T11:52:44-07:00Gwyneth Cheung Lok-Chi10b39212f125261837ce25792aed5e7550b1945cFrom the novel "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara is the main protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel; "Klara and the Sun". It is an "artificial friend", designed to keep humans company and befriend them. Although an AI, it possesses amazing abilities of recognizing the different facets of a human being's emotions, even more so than her AI partners. Its intentions are always pure, as it is extremely naïve and true to its programming. Klara is genuine in its mannerism, until the end. Its fate was inevitable, as it ends up slowly fading away in a barn.
