Victoria Unveiled

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>With Chatbots and Large Language Models changing the world of writing and publishing dramatically what happens when we introduce a sentient robot capable of feelings into the mix?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Phil Kruger inventor and serial womanizer believes he has the answer in his creation Victoria the first sentient robot in the world imbued with beauty knowledge and strength and on a crash course to acquire human feelings through massive infusions of data. Arrayed against him are independent trade publisher Artemius (Art) Jones and his rebellious and sexually starved daughter Paula an editor herself who is determined to take her father's failing press Crimson Literary into the indie world of self-publishing. The rest of the cast is made up of Sebastian Smyth AI consultant and robotic lover; Kevin Bartolo revolutionary poet and passionate lover of women and traditional publishing; Diana Dawson Art's ex-wife who dumped him for the younger Phil; Kamala Shah the charismatic but calculating heir to the throne of Hind Robotics the company bankrolling Phil's AI venture; Viresh Shah chairman of Hind Robotics thirsting for South Asia to grab the pole position in AI technology.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The worlds of publishing and AI clash leading to some funny saucy and scary situations leaving us with the existential question of how will we share this planet with our digital creations?</span></p>