I started reading Asimov 50-ish years ago,when i was 14. Really loved it, but only now do i realize that the book was actually more than fun: it is great.
I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Simak, Zelazny, and other greats of the genre . Asimov still holds his place in my personal pantheon. I think that his exploration of human societies' relationships with technology is still quite relevant.
Thank you so much for posting these books! It reminds me of my junior year in highschool when I skipped class and found Asimov in the library! I subscribed and will follow your channel loyally lol. Thanks again!
He writes a masterpiece that terrifies ...especially as we the first gen to mechanically accept robots, despite them predicting our ultimate demise..he writes with amazing accuracy.
Thank you for doing a great service to the inquisitive mind. This novel was fantastic to listen to. The other novels u post are great to lose yourself to! You are amazing!
I don't hear this as mechanical in any way. He speaks clearly at an easy pace, taking good notice of the punctuation . Not too easy to do. But Asimov could write! Good stuff.
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 job with this, Aetherial! The AI reader is amazingly good and adds to the experience of hearing a story about robots and how they may affect the course of humanity.
Don't think this is AI, you can hear his breath, and his voice changes and intensifies on certain words. He also has a better feel for the grammar than most AI readers. He isn't the most dynamic of narrators though, hence why many think it is AI.
We are less than a generation away from not caring if the narrator is not human. Maybe only a generation away from having citizens who only relate via the internet. View you soon
There was a YA novel from 1974 called "The Bladerunner" written by Alan E. Nourse. Dystopian. Oppressive society with strictly controlled access to Healthcare . Protagonist smuggles illicit medical supplies to what passes for doctors outside the regime.
LOL! The AIs have gotten so good that people are now proud of their ability to distinguish machine and human voices. Asimov would be amazed. Ten years from now: "hate robots trying to get with me tho. i can always tell 😢😀
Great book -- a classic on artificial intelligence, read by an astoundingly advanced AI voice that can almost pass as human, offered to you here completely free of charge. And you complain. 🙄 😄
I started reading Asimov 50-ish years ago,when i was 14. Really loved it, but only now do i realize that the book was actually more than fun: it is great.
I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Simak, Zelazny, and other greats of the genre . Asimov still holds his place in my personal pantheon. I think that his exploration of human societies' relationships with technology is still quite relevant.
Thank you so much for posting these books! It reminds me of my junior year in highschool when I skipped class and found Asimov in the library! I subscribed and will follow your channel loyally lol. Thanks again!
Ironic, and fitting, that one of the Robot novels is being read by a robot...
Great fudging point
The prophecy is being fulfilled !!!
Hey *I* was gonna say that!
He writes a masterpiece that terrifies ...especially as we the first gen to mechanically accept robots, despite them predicting our ultimate demise..he writes with amazing accuracy.
Thank you so much for putting this together! I like the voice you chose!
Thank you for posting these videos. I have forgotten these great books!
Thank you for doing a great service to the inquisitive mind. This novel was fantastic to listen to. The other novels u post are great to lose yourself to! You are amazing!
I don't normally like mechanical readers, but it is quite fitting for this subject matter.
I don't hear this as mechanical in any way. He speaks clearly at an easy pace, taking good notice of the punctuation . Not too easy to do. But Asimov could write! Good stuff.
It’s an AI voice, read the description 😉
@@babematerial5796And a few typical AI reader errors in pronunciation and phrasing. But bearable in this case.
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.
I read this as a kid, it is like a walk down memory lane.
I used to have a little library and all of Asimov 's fiction works. ❤.
Great audiobook, thank you.
I thought I'd read all of the Robot books although that was a long time ago and quite frankly I don't recall much other than Caves.
I read all of his works brilliant man
The AI reader isn’t too bad. I enjoyed the story.
Sort of ironic
Indeed
such good tech for phone calls and imaging - and yet no recording instruments in the robots at all? Seems like an oversight.
excellent writing though.....unfiltered.
Great job with this, Aetherial! The AI reader is amazingly good and adds to the experience of hearing a story about robots and how they may affect the course of humanity.
Will you upload the third book in the trilogy? Thank you for this by the way
Yes hopefully soon
This was good thank you! ❤
Don't think this is AI, you can hear his breath, and his voice changes and intensifies on certain words. He also has a better feel for the grammar than most AI readers. He isn't the most dynamic of narrators though, hence why many think it is AI.
In the description it does indeed say this is an ai voice 😊
Turing test achieved? 🙂
@@mac195000 It's nothing like a pass.
@@lew6598 It passed bludyhellcats's test though.
I thought it was real too, it’s very good!
We are less than a generation away from not caring if the narrator is not human. Maybe only a generation away from having citizens who only relate via the internet. View you soon
Superb.Thank you.
@3:10:42, Again, foreshadowing the Zeroth Law
Asimov is totally fking with the audience. The only sane person in the entire book is redhanded labelled a murderer. Wtf these people. Great writing!
Johosafat !
Too bad I Robot can't pronounce Elijah Bailey
They could at least check these to make sure they are getting the main characters name pronounced correctly
Whose to say what's correct, robots can be right too 😉
Does Bladerunner borrow heavily from this story?
No. Blade Runner is based on a Philip K Dick story called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
There was a YA novel from 1974 called "The Bladerunner" written by Alan E. Nourse. Dystopian. Oppressive society with strictly controlled access to Healthcare . Protagonist smuggles illicit medical supplies to what passes for doctors outside the regime.
@@sub-jec-tiv Was Phillip K D1ck influenced by Asimov?
Gets to 3H then repeats a convo ever and over.
The book continues as normal for me 🤷🏻♀️
@@kelimutscheller1960 Same here.
Lee Ja Bally ( hmmmm - Mr AI could you be more consistent?)
Really this is read by an IA? If so a lot better than the old VA.
Is this AI Lex Friedman?
4:32:50 bookmark
The most extreme version of country mouse versus city mouse ever.
I admit I was quite a bit disappointed when Apple tv woke-board decided to changed R. Daneel for a waifu sex doll in their foundation tv series.
I only realised this was an AI after some weird pronunciations
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Bad ai is horrible to listen to, this is not that!, 1 question, does jehosha fat mean jesus christ or holy shit?
The former, I think. But it could work for both.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoshaphat
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Ai Ryan gosling
The guy narrating is emotionless and uninteresting. I couldn't go on after just 10 minutes, unfortunately.
Too deep a voice for a 6th grader. Very monotonic.....need a different one
30 minutes into this and I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Sorry.
Boring terrible narrator!
hate ai voices tho. i can always tell😢
LOL! The AIs have gotten so good that people are now proud of their ability to distinguish machine and human voices. Asimov would be amazed.
Ten years from now: "hate robots trying to get with me tho. i can always tell 😢😀
Good book ruined by AI narration.
Great book -- a classic on artificial intelligence, read by an astoundingly advanced AI voice that can almost pass as human, offered to you here completely free of charge.
And you complain. 🙄 😄
@@mac195000AI reads, your keyword being almost. To me, the book is kindda ruined when Im thinking: This is an artificial voice😑. Peace✌️
Booooooo
Can't even pronounce his name.
Elijah Bailey.
Read the book.
Another AI narrator 😂
Pls share the others for the interested viewers
Hard to say. Love the grammar pauses. And the breaths!🤣
There are several sci-fi books digitally narrated on Jonathan Moeller's channel here on YT
Tbh, its just bad. Its not good, its sci fi. This why its not classic
The AI voice is distracting
This uses an AI reader, thumbs down, good bye.
Even I understand it is master piece, it so boring...
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