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To hell with AI

It's always interesting to see the blind spots people have when thinking about the future, or perhaps they are not blind spots at all, just what the audience of the time would bear. Just as in Star Trek they had to wind back their ideas of the future so as to not outrage their audience. In this case smoking and smacking children. Both seem nearly extinct now, hopefully anyway. I wonder what blind spots we have.

A.I. reading is CRINGE

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Horribly read !

A.I. reading is cringe

Thank you for bringing to life the stories I enjoyed over 50 years ago. Please continue the series. Both of them.

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People mad in the comments about a robot reading the robot series hahahaha

Hey if no human will take the time to read azimov for free on the internet, I’ll take this voice. Its pretty good for a robot reading the robot series

bucket nekkid sun, noice

Excellent cover illustration. In my twenties (the 80’s) I tore through every Asimov I could.

Is there a mule in here somewhere?

This video is absolutely amazing! The content is engaging, and the effort put into it is truly commendable. Keep up the fantastic work!"

This is AI? What the hell! It sounds amazing!!

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BRILLIANT ! Amazing, loved it thank you

It has been almost 20 years since I read this series at my local library over the period of several months before walking to work nearby. I have enjoyed listening to your recordings during my commute and morning chores. Thank you.

I am immensely grateful for your work!

I’m gunna be pissed if it turns out one of the robots killed the guy. Like seriously, that’s such an obvious plot direction.

This AI (Artificial Intelligence) reader is better than many others that I've experienced. The channel owner disclosed in the description that the reader IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Intriguing story. I can't believe that I missed that the killer wasn't actually revealed in the denouement!! Very clever.

Good enough to be a good listen 👍

I find audiobook + driving a perfect match. And by your doing - for better or worse - I have apparently became a fan of Asimov's work.

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The voice is miserable, no emotion, like listening to an insurance adjuster. I'll pass.

"The voice narrating this book is generated by artificial intelligence." There is something very funny about Naked Sun in particular being narrated by a generated voice.

In contrast to other comments here, I find this work and its presentation engage only when it hits the heights of mediocrity. The problem for the fifties American Sci-fi writers like Asimov is that they lack any literary quality. When I was a kid I loved this genre and the likes of Asimov were a staple diet of my own creative development. But that was back in the 1960's and the stories have not worn the wind of time well but eroded in short decades to be left as crumbling monuments of a time well past. In their day it was the vision of the future which drove the text rather than any poetic prose. Mathematicians such as Asimov write in the same format as a policeman's notebook; a list of statements of 'facts'. They were not literary people but science people and that difference means that the stories only stand the test of time when the insights of the future hold good. Sadly, and I do mean that, this is not the case for much of that genre which came from the 1950s as it is a projection of the American culture in which men are tobacco men and women are washing machine housewives. Huge clunky spaceships staffed by battlefleets of engineers, gunners, soldiers and galley staff lumber around the universe threatening to use atomics. Strangely, the 'scientists' behind these texts failed to see the impact of computers and the development of metallurgy. So what we are left with is a quaint reminder of our own past readings, a romantic remembering rather than any vision of the future. This could still stand the test of time if actually narrated by someone who understood narration as a profession rather than as a hobby. In this presentation, the absence of cadence, intonation and characterisation emphasises the underlying issues with the text which I have already described. The sentences are read statement by statement with a monotone pace that is unchanging. A metronomic chant more reminiscent of a 54 Chevy Truck ticking off the miles on a long desert highway. What a shame because there still remains a good place for this fiction if imaginatively worked at and none, including myself, should deny its place in the history of the genre.

Whoever is the narrator deserve much credit, best english narration i have listen till now

Really good thanks

Fantastic AI audio !!!!!

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If Mr Asimov only knew about the population we have today. And the problems it is causing.

Nice voice.. Anyway.. Well narre..

Thank You.. Still so amazing❤😊

What exactly is Bailey's first name? Lee? Lee-jee? Leah? Lagh-ee? Lee-jay? Li-jah? Lige? Very annoying.

This isn't the best but i don't think there aee any other audiobooks on Asimov's robot novels still on TH-cam

Took me a few chapters to be sure this was being read by AI, rather than just occasional human error. I generally don't enjoy the idea of AI audiobooks but they are getting better and seems quite fitting for this story - like being read a bedtime story by your own robot.

Great audiobook, thank you.

Ai Ryan gosling

i cant believe the voice is AI......amazing

I always wanted to re-read the foundation series, there is no more after this book, are you planning to do more?, thanks

30 minutes into this and I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Sorry.

I'm gonna pass on this, and find a human reader.

The reader sounds a bit too machine-like. Of course, that's the way the character Detective Elijah Bailey would talk. It's the 'Sam Spade' archetype that Bogart made famous. Anyway, seems like a productive way for you to produce copy for TH-cam.

Am assuming (and hoping) that Robots of Dawn will follow this audiobook? AI voices are still missing the different character voices that good narrators use, when that happens audiobook readers may be out of a job!

What an awfully tiresome book.

Even I understand it is master piece, it so boring...

It seems strange that the replacement chief librarian is described as "Progressive" as a complement, in the context, someone favouring continuing policy of his predecessor is a conservative. I wonder if this is an artifact of the time the book was written, an example of the political bias of the time with people believing it normal to equate change with good.