Episode Transcript: #284 - Daniel H. Wilson
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Powerful Daniel H. Wilson.
How are you a robotics expert?
Was it all in research for this book?
Do you have a background in robotics?
Yeah, as a kid I got really into robots and then I studied computer science.
And then while I was doing that I found out that instead of just programming computers,
you could actually teach them how to learn the answer on their own, artificial intelligence.
So when I saw that there was science fiction that you could study for real,
the nerd in me really went for it.
It was exactly like if you're playing a role-playing game and you have a character sheet
and you're picking the skills.
I saw roboticist and I said, oh, well, I'll level up in that.
I think that would be great.
So it was just like you had a dream job as a little kid
and you just got lucky that it was an actual real job.
Yeah, basically.
I mean, like I like science fiction.