Review: The Brain Machine by Chris Turner
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2011
I really enjoyed this short story about Professor Sadsook's invention of artificial intelligence, Brain 0.4.  Sadsook takes Brain on a national telenet show so that millions of people can see for themselves the thinking ability of Brain 0.4.  Brain's head dish orbits around and around at a very fast speed, and he looks rather funny, but he proves his level of intelligence by solving math problems within seconds.Brain takes calls from listeners and answers questions, but when he comes to a caller who wants to know why women are from Venus and men are from Mars, he cannot answer the question.  The professor tries everything to get him to answer to no avail.Brain gives professor Sadsook an answer when they get home. However, Brain starts being a bit smarter than the professor.  He didn't intend for this to happen.  We'll see what happens at the end of this very well-crafted story.I like the time factors and also the little bits of astronomy that are inserted into this short story.  This one earned a 4 from me.