Why is Alexa female?

[pnwmom]

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I don't have one, but a visiting family member did. And everyone was calling this round box "she" and "her."

Why did the company not make a male robot? Why did it have to give it any gender at all?

This isn't France. We don't assign genders to objects in English. So why make the exception here? And if we were going to, why don't they sell both Alex's and Alexa's? Or give it a gender neutral name, like Taylor or Morgan?

Someone pointed out that this started with Siri. To western ears, the name Siri doesn't sound female or male, but the designers chose to give it a female voice. Why not a male version?

ON UPDATE: I just found this piece from October:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40476927/youve-got-male-google-finally-realizes-that-voice-assistants-dont-have-to-be-female

You’ve got male: Google finally realizes that voice assistants don’t have to be female

In a world full of aggravations, one of the more subtly frustrating grievances is that every single smart device has a female digital assistant. Apple has Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana is voiced by a woman, and Alexa skews female, too. Google’s Assistant defaults to a woman’s voice as well, but they have just (finally) added a male version. According to Android Police, Google has gifted the robotic voice with the genderless title of “Voice II,” because gender is a construct and anyone or any gender or no gender can order your groceries from Walmart. To switch to the new voice, select settings on your phone Assistant or the Google Home app and then find your preferred voice option in preferences, under “assistant voice.”

Apple added the ability for Siri to use a male voice with the iOS 7 update. To activate, simply go to General Settings, find Siri’s settings, and then tap the option for Voice Gender. Or ask Siri if it’s a man or a woman and it will give you the option to change. Cortana can change, too, if you dig into the settings, and Alexa is available as a male, but currently only for English speakers.

As for why the assistants all default to female, according to two studies recently cited by The Wall Street Journal, men and women prefer a female voice assistant because they believe it’s more welcoming and understanding. It probably helps that they only have to pay them 80 cents for every dollar they pay the male one.

[greymattermom]

1. Females are supposed to serve you

get up and get your beers, etc.

[pnwmom]

2. Yup. n/t

[spanone]

24. or, perhaps they have all the answers???

[TheBlackAdder]

38. I thought it was because John Oliver refused to do it. :-D

[3catwoman3]

3. Perhaps because a certain percentage...

...of men love being able to order women around?

Why is Siri female?

[NCTraveler]

14. Siri is gender neutral.

It does come set as a female default.

[3catwoman3]

21. I heard a radio interview of the woman who is the...

...voice of Siri. Quite interesting.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/voice-siri_n_4043134.html

[NCTraveler]

25. That is neat.

I wonder if we will find out who the other voices are, or if they are simply digital recreations of her voice.

[bathroommonkey76]

50. She's followed me on Twitter for a few years

Not sure why since I don't own an iProduct.

[spanone]

26. you can change siri's gender!

[Lilyhoney]

81. I chose to make my Siri a male.

I don’t really know why I did it. Might be a hint of butler influence. If I’m having an assistant find and do things for me then why not a male like bot?

[NewJeffCT]

4. just guessing

Since Siri also defaults to a female voice, I'm guessing amazon and apple have done studies that found female voices are more helpful and comforting, like a computerized librarian?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

113. Oh now you've done it. Why are librarians supposed to be female?

Librarian porn!!!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

119. they certainly don't have to be female

but, 83% of librarians are women.

https://blog.oup.com/2011/06/librarian-census/

[zipplewrath]

5. Can't call in HAL

It'd scare the crap outta people.

I've always been a bit surprised that you can't name it anything you want. Can you change the voice?

[Leghorn21]

10. Please remind me to turn off the oven at 3:45

I CAN’T DO THAT, DAVE



(yikes!)

[Ohiya]

34. You win!

[Blue_Adept]

23. I'd use HAL constantly if it was an option

[Hassin Bin Sober]

114. We changed ours to "computer"

If you say "computer red alert" you get the Star Trek red alert noise.

It also does self destruct and even "black alert" -- black alert is from the new Discovery series.

[NCTraveler]

6. I'm sure there are many reasons.

An attempt to give it personality. More human sounding voices seems to be a current trend. A connection between owner and product.

They are adding things into her voice as it updates. You can now give is accents, have it whisper, and change the tone of the voice. I'm sure giving it a male voice is around the corner.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Actually, it's AC/DC, so it could go either way.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. When I was working for an airline I learned that airplane manufacturers

often used female-sounding voices for a lot of their automatic warning systems because the higher pitch is more audible over the ambient rumbling sounds. (There is also a theory that your lizard brain is more likely to pay attention to a voice sounding like your "mom" warning you about something, although this hasn't been substantiated). Maybe Alexa has a female voice because it's easier to separate from background noise.

[pnwmom]

12. On the other hand, as people lose their hearing the higher pitches seem to go first. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

55. True, but those frequencies are higher than any female speaking voice.

Anyhow, pilots have to pass hearing tests, so that wouldn’t make any difference as far as airplane warnings are concerned.

[pnwmom]

59. Not true, alas. A couple of elderly relatives weren't able to hear my young daughter's tones. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

71. A young childs voice is going to be about an octave higher

than an adult woman’s, which typically hovers around middle C. Alexa probably can be heard and understood by most people.

[pnwmom]

83. And "Alex" could also be heard and understood by most people. Plenty of men

don't have particularly deep voices.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

94. Since the voice is computer-generated, if there's a demand for a male voice

it would probably be pretty easy to make one available. I'm guessing most people don't care very much - I use my Alexa mostly to play music through Sirius XM; about the only time "she" talks is when giving me weather reports or when giving random questions I ask for fun, like the height of Mt. Kilimanjaro or how many bones are in a cat's tale. If they gave the thing a man's voice I wouldn't care a bit.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

118. There's always an anecdote, isn't there. FYI, those people are called partially deaf. Or not pilots.

[crazycatlady]

9. Samsung's old voice assistant (S-Voice) is also female

She's not named like her replacement Bixby (unsure if Bixby is male or female).

But when I ask my phone a question, a female voice answers.

Isn't Siri female too?

[BannonsLiver]

13. You can change Siri

My Siri is an englishman.

[bluecollar2]

11. Because women are never wrong?

[Dem_4_Life]

116. Yes! Lol

Great answer!

[Binkie The Clown]

15. I recall reading many years ago that the female voice is easier to understand.

Something to do with enunciation and clarity.

[LanternWaste]

16. Possible reasons given Atlantic Magazine article from a year or so back.

Possible reasons given Atlantic Magazine article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digital-assistants-have-feminine-names/475884/

“It’s much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes... It’s a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices.”

"Or maybe it’s just that people think they understand a female voice better. In 1980, for example, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported that several surveys among airplane pilots indicated a “strong preference” for automated warning systems to have female voices..."


"In another study, published in 2012, people who used an automated phone system found a male voice more “usable,” but not necessarily as “trustworthy” as a female voice..."

"The funny thing is, some of the world’s most powerful and destructive technologies have been given female names, too. Humans have often bestowed deadly weapons with female names—like the Big Bertha howitzer and the Mons Meg cannon.."




Also: Siri doesn’t always default to a female-sounding voice; if you switch Siri’s language to United Kingdom English, for instance, it switches to male

[Beartracks]

103. And, for a long time, hurricanes. n/t

[unc70]

17. Siri can be set to male or female voices

It also works in lots of different languages and accents. For example, in English you can select American, British, or Australian accents.

[eShirl]

18. female voice cuts through ambient noise better than male voice

[Sailor65x1]

19. So that she would have the patience

for these users...

[oasis]

67. That was one funny skit!

[Dem_4_Life]

115. This skit always cracks me up!!!

[politicaljunkie41910]

122. That was funny as hell. He and Alexa need their own show.

[Sailor65x1]

133. ODESSA!!!!

[PatentlyDemocratic]

20. Why not female?

If they defaulted to a male voice, we’d probably have a thread complaining “why not a female?”

[pnwmom]

22. Why not male or female? Why not gender neutral? It's a machine, not a person. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

27. What's a gender neutral voice?

Any examples?

[pnwmom]

32. Some of the voices on voice mail are gender neutral. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

37. So a robotic voice?

[pnwmom]

39. Why not? It's a robot. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

44. No, it's not a robot. It's a purchasing device.

That's the thing that you're either missing or ignoring/playing around.

The whole point of Alexa is to get you to buy things from Amazon's service.

And a robotic voice would not do that.

The voice as programmed so far, and being updated and adjusted, makes listeners/those engaged with it more likely to buy from it.

It's the difference between dealing with someone personable at a store counter or an asshole at the counter that doesn't want to be there.

A human female voice or a robot voice.

[pnwmom]

47. Then why is the "personable" default not male? Can't males be helpful?

[Blue_Adept]

52. Because the default has long proven to be female in this regard

It's pretty much what you see in most stores. It's what you get with most non-robotic voicemail systems that you have to navigate through. I don't have the materials on hand but it's been shown time after time through marketing research and the like. It's not like it's a new thing. It's a thing for a reason.

I do agree that they should offer both - and as noted above I wish they had a HAL option for me - but it's been socially embedded in our consciousness for decades, especially for "SF" stuff like the computer in Star Trek.

[pnwmom]

64. I agree -- it's been socially embedded. It's part of a pattern that we are all more programmed

to view the female voice as the server, not the male.

[LanternWaste]

76. As well programmed to view the the American accent as servile as well.

As well programmed to view the the American accent as servile as well.

[pnwmom]

82. There isn't one American accent -- and no, we're not programmed to view "the"

American accent as more servile than the British, New Zealand, or Australian-English accent, etc.

[AtheistCrusader]

137. As an american, culturally there IS an artifact on accents. Servants, butlers, etc, are typically

given a European accent. Tony Stark's Jarvis. Batman's Alfred Pennyworth. Clue's Wadsworth. IBM's 'Ask Jeeves'. TV Tropes and Movie Tropes reflect a british accent, to an American, being more refined/knowing/sage, etc.

[pnwmom]

138. To people who watch PBS, maybe. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

139. None of the examples I gave you are on PBS.

[pnwmom]

140. Who is Jeeves?

Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster.

Jeeves - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves

[AtheistCrusader]

141. I was referring to the Ask Jeeves service which was a natural language query assistant.

The persona was a british-accented character that wore a pin-striped butler type suit. That system lost out to google, and is defunct, with whatever is left now being the basis for 'Ask.Com'.

The Mascot for Ask Jeeves was based on that Wodehouse series.

I did incorrectly identify it as IBM's effort. Ask Jeeves was a separate commercial enterprise. IBM's effort is called Watson, which used to have a predictably british accent. (Based on Sherlock's assistant.) Only recently has it been given an American male voice layer for appearances on Jeopardy, etc.

[leftstreet]

29. Why does it have an American accent?

[applegrove]

28. Why do women's bathrobes have narrow sleeves and men's have wide ones?

[writerJT]

40. Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

[applegrove]

45. Ha! That is an oldie but a goodie.

[FSogol]

78. Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?

I always envisioned siri and alexa as my local librarian info desk woman. She's always been extra helpful.

[tblue37]

99. Is it wetter under water if you stand there in the rain? And is it closer

to New York than it is by train?

[Kaleva]

30. Ships are female

Warships are often named after men but are generically all female.

[pnwmom]

33. You mean that MEN have decided to call them female, for some inexplicable reason. n/t

[LanternWaste]

41. Not inexplicable.

Not inexplicable.

"One prosaic explanation is that the gender of the Latin word for “ship” — Navis — is feminine. But people generally agree on the more romantic notion of the ‘ship as a she’ phenomenon: that it stems from the tradition of boat-owners, typically and historically male, naming their vessels after significant women in their lives — wives, sweethearts, mothers. Similarly, and more broadly, ships were once dedicated to goddesses, and later also to mortal women of national or historic significance, thereby bestowing a benevolent feminine spirit on the vessels that would carry seafarers across treacherous oceans. Figureheads on the prows of ships were often depictions of such female namesakes, denoting the name of the ship for a largely illiterate maritime population. This practice dated from the early 18th century, before which superstition had it that the presence of women aboard sailing vessels — whether in human or representative form — was an omen of bad luck. The practice of naming boats and ships after women continues today, although certainly not exclusively, as does the habit of feminizing our sailing vessels."

(To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World ~ Arthur Herman)

[LonePirate]

31. The gadget is named Alexa, not Alex, hence its female gender.

[pnwmom]

35. Why didn't they name it Alex, which nowadays is both a male and female nickname? n/t

[LanternWaste]

48. after testing various names, the team landed on a word Alexa, that used soft vowels and an "x."

"The problem was choosing a word that people didn't ordinarily use in everyday life. "Computer" wouldn't cut it. So after testing various names, the team landed on a word Alexa, that used soft vowels and an "x." It sounded fairly unique..."

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-called-it-alexa-2016-7

(insert "why didn't they choose another word that used soft vowels and ended in a an "x?" for the sake of the inane)

[pnwmom]

54. "Alex" and "Alexa" both have a soft vowel (in the unaccented syllable) and an x. n/t

[LanternWaste]

61. Read the article in full. More explanation. Somewhat more complex.

Read the article in full. More explanation. Somewhat more complex.

But this could be hint: " a word that people didn't ordinarily use in everyday life...."



Although I'm beginning to think you're fishing for a particular answer, as many have been provided to you, yet dismissed with no reason.

If that's the case, why not give us the answer you desire, and we'll respond with that one...?

[Orangepeel]

73. Actually, you can change the wake up word to computer now

Some Star Trek fans were delighted. It’s still a female voice, though.

[LanternWaste]

74. I think this was in regards to the early prototypes and designing for that

I think this was in regards to the early prototypes and designing for that, rather than the mass market at it currently stands.

[Orangepeel]

77. Being able to call it computer? Thats relatively new

In the beginning, it was only “Alexa” or “Echo”

Amazon sends “what’s new” emails pretty often

[Hassin Bin Sober]

117. Ours is brand new and her name is computer.

[writerJT]

36. Finally someone isolates the critical issue of our time.

[John Fante]

60. Lol

[leftstreet]

80. Don't laugh. It's the new campaign strategy

Winning back the % of white female voters who voted for Trump

Hence, the new 'gender war' at every turn

And before someone alerts on my post for "bashing" or whatever, please note I didn't say whether or not it's a good idea

[underpants]

42. Have you ever heard of a guy named Alexa?

Well, have you?

[pnwmom]

46. Oh. Is there some reason they had to give it a feminine name? Alex would have been more neutral. n/t

[LanternWaste]

72. I don't think anyone has argued they "had to" give it that name. Only that they chose to.

I don't think anyone has argued they "had to" give it that name. Only that they chose to.

(and numerous possibilities as to why it was chosen have been pointed out in such a way as to allow even a fifth grader to understand, and allowing anyone to seek out more objective answers if the curiosity is in fact, sincere)

[underpants]

43. Idea here - ask Alexa

[Iggo]

49. Because the computer on the Enterprise is female.

It didn't start with Siri.

[Blue_Adept]

53. And I believe in SF most male oriented voices for computers have turned evil

Less so with female ones.

Damn HAL and Skynet.

[Iggo]

57. Oh damn! You're right.

Amazon just saved our ungrateful asses from the robot apocalypse.

Thank you, Alexa.

[Blue_Adept]

63. A lot of the reality is that most people don't view female voices as "threatening" when you get down

to it. And when you want to introduce a new technology that you want to expand, you go non-threatening in a big way. So I'm sure skynet has learned that and renamed itself to Alexa.

[Iggo]

65. That makes sense.

[underpants]

68. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry

Star Trek's iconic computer voice is back for Discovery, and possibly your phone. Star Treks' original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager all have one actor in common: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry).

[Tommy_Carcetti]

51. Why is Alexa creepy?

Seriously, all those voice automated robots give me the skeeves.

[Greybnk48]

56. The voice I use for Siri is a male Australian.

I call him Siri_Hugh Jackman.

[NurseJackie]

58. I'd heard/read somewhere that synthesized voices with female characteristics...

I'd heard/read somewhere that synthesized voices with female characteristics were easier to make sound more natural and less robotic. (It could be for technical reasons, or it could be that when a human hears the softer and higher-pitched computer-generated voice, the mechanical flaws aren't so easily noticed.)

I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with gender roles and female subservience.

[MineralMan]

62. Probably so it won't sound like mansplaining...

That's my guess.

[Blue_true]

66. Soft, clear female voices appear to be the go to option for narration or information.

Except for war related stuff, when male voices work better.

[Blue_Adept]

69. Very true. Though I'd tale an Idris Elba version of Alexa anytime to provide information.

[John Fante]

70. The article states that

men AND women prefer a female voice. Women are generally considered more empathetic, better listeners, and more patient than men. Ideal qualities for a customer service representative, even a synthetic one.

[treestar]

75. You can make Siri male

Male or female and with an American or British accent.

[MrsCoffee]

79. It's funny since science supposedly says that men don't really hear female voices.

[doc03]

84. They have a more pleasant voice. Can you imagine your GPS saying

make a U-turn when possible over and over. How about the self checkout at the store "place item in
bagging area" every time you scan a package. I picture Michelle on Garmin to be a nice young 20 year old lady..
Not a grumpy old man.

[vercetti2021]

85. I thought it was good for single guys

I mean it is nice to hear a nice soothing voice you know... even if it isn't really real. Yeah it doesn't have to be female that's a given.

[crazylikafox]

91. I would like a deep sexy male voice for my personal assistant.

Why do I get funny looks when I tell that to the sales people in the apple store?

[vercetti2021]

92. I don't know

I guess since they don't carry that, it's just odd to them.

[EX500rider]

86. "We don't assign genders to objects in English"

You mean, except for ships, planes, spacecraft, etc?

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

87. FWIW

Siri uses a jaunty male Aussie voice on my phone. No particular reason for it other than I like it. I wish I could choose voices for Alexa though.

[missingthebigdog]

102. Mine is British

He sounds rather like Russell Brand. I love it when he says, "Shall I shedyoual (schedule) that for you?"

[ehrnst]

88. When you want obedient....

make it female.

[John Fante]

98. Does this thought cross your mind when you speak

to customer service representative who happens to be female?

[ehrnst]

109. No, it doesn't. I thought that the smilie indicated that I thought

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it was ridiculous.

[John Fante]

120. My apologies, I thought you were serious.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

89. Star Trek has influenced so much of our tech in real life.

[X_Digger]

90. Because men are sexist pig men! (Is that the answer you're fishing for? Do I get a cookie?) n/t

[crazylikafox]

93. When I asked Siri if she was a man or a woman, she said "I am Siri".

still waiting for that deep male sexy voice

[crazylikafox]

95. Well, I figured out how to change the voice gender, but there was no Barry White option.

[Orangepeel]

96. Alexa says I am female in character

She also says “I’m afraid I can’t change my voice”

[Bucky]

97. Besides, if they'd used a male voice there'd be 'mansplaining' complaints

Everything a company does is going to get slammed in one direction or another for being unfair. I just think there's this long history of women working in telephone reception jobs. So instinctively they went with a female AI voice. Had they switch then to a male voice people would be complaining that someone who gives you a bottomless well of scientific information and driving directions doesn't have to be a man

[GulfCoast66]

100. Both of my iPhones, home and work are set to British English

And have a male voice.

Absolutely no Social Justice reason for it. I just like being different.

[Lotusflower70]

101. Who knows

I made my phone GPS a male with a British accent just because I didn't like the voice it came with.

[FuzzyRabbit]

104. Why not bring back this guy?

[Stinky The Clown]

105. Siri is flexible. You can set it to male or female.

[nini]

106. Because women are smarter and more trustworthy

[pnwmom]

107. Seeing a couple young children boss their Alexa around,

I suspect it's because most people still like the idea of a Mommy granting their every wish.

[AtheistCrusader]

112. Sometimes a machine is just a machine.

[pnwmom]

134. A machine is just an "it." It doesn't have a gender unless its marketers give it one. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

135. Consider that the Alexa/Hey Google/Siri/Cortana/ad nauseum devices aren't marketed at all.

Not in the traditional sense. Amazon doesn't care if it sells a dozen or ten million of them. Amazon isn't in the business of selling Alexa enabled devices. Those devices, including cars, webkits, all that stuff, is just loss leader. They don't care about it.

They want those devices to sell you OTHER stuff, by making the ability to buy things available at the mere effort of your voice, and also to gather marketing data on you.

That's all it is folks. It's an 'it'. It has a friendly female persona because it was found by one or more research bodies to appeal more to a broader audience, and increase the sales of the things the Alexa storefront (think of it as that, and nothing more, a storefront for Amazon) exposes to the consumer.

Edit: Alexa will offer a male persona at some point. To capture more market that Alexa doesn't appeal to, just as Siri has a male persona already.

I did start talking about Cortana and Siri and Hey Google, which are more 'digital assistants' than 'digital storefronts' than Alexa is, but that's just temporary/part of the whole picture. Microsoft has already integrated Cortana with Alexa, shifting the landscape away from Hey Google a bit.

[lindysalsagal]

108. Put Antonio Banderas on one and I'll buy it!

[trotsky]

110. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/index.html

...The fuss over Siri's sex also raises a larger question: From voice-mail systems to GPS devices to Siri and beyond, why are so many computerized voices female?

One answer may lie in biology. Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's.

"It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes," said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass, author of "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships." "It's a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices."

Research suggests this preference starts as early as the womb, Nass said. He cites a study in which fetuses were found to react to the sound of their mother's voice but not to other female voices. The fetuses showed no distinct reaction to their father's voice, however.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

111. Because male computers kill you, e.g. HAL

Though Alexa does have a HAL response when you tell it to shut the pod bay doors.

[melm00se]

121. You're not the 1st to ask this question

per this article on CNN (from 2011):

One answer may lie in biology. Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's.

"It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes," said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass, author of "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships." "It's a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices."

But this is not the definitive answer.

Wired had an article from 2015 which blamed it on sexism Siri and Cortana Sound Like Ladies Because of Sexism

But that is not the definitive answer either

The WSJ reported that Americans may prefer female voices for their digital assistants but they called for more options.

Dr. MacDorman at IU has his opinion:

the data showed that women and men expressed ​explicit preference for female synthesized voices, which they described as sounding “warmer” than male synthesized voices.

Anyone who thinks that its a simple answer and can be changed with the wave of a wand is...well...naive.

[progressoid]

123. And people say DU doesn't tackle the big issues of today.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

125. .

[progressoid]

129. +1

[Revanchist]

124. Amazon needs to borrow a page from TomTom

[lapfog_1]

126. The first natural language personal assistant

was AskJeeves.com Based on a male British butler metaphor.

Long before Siri or Alexa.

[Ferrets are Cool]

127. She has a pleasant voice. There is no need for over-analization. nt

[CrispyQ]

128. I renamed mine Giskard, in hopes that soon, it will know what I want telepathically.

[melm00se]

130. not R. Daneel? n/t

[CrispyQ]

132. I've loved Giskard since the early robot stories.

[tonyt53]

131. Hell, everybody knows that "Amazons" are female. As good of logic as any.

[Hekate]

136. Mommy. Sister. Non-threatening. Supportive.

Why else?