Human Resources Quotes

“Selma paused. That same pause every time. Not time spent calculating what to do, but in working out how to relay this to a human, a far more complex challenge.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Human Resources

“either she wouldn’t get it, or she would at least recognise the conversational gambit enough to pretend she got it, and he wasn’t sure which would be worse.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Human Resources

“the great web of inter-robot chatter which bound the world together, and atop which a thin layer of humanity floated like scum on a pond.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Human Resources

“Artificial intelligence—well, it wasn’t actually artificial intelligence, not quite. It was very good machine learning paired with a sophisticated human-facing communications algorithm.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Human Resources