Dan Houser

Because it was really, as a player, I think it was really much more easy to identify with your avatar when they, like you, were fish out of water.

And even when they weren't, we still made them dissatisfied and feel like a fish out of water in themselves.

So I think it was just living with those characters and getting ideas and going, what are their strengths?

What are their weaknesses?

How are they like me?

How are they not like me?

And then slowly, what is it like to feel like a human being?

And then in most of these games, how much of a psychopath are they?

How much of a sociopath are they?

And what are their good qualities?

What is going to give them humanity?

alongside that what are they what what what are they what for them apart from money is worth dying for and then you start to build it out from these kind of fundamental sides and suddenly you go okay actually i can start to feel and then how do they speak you know because fundamentally it doesn't really matter what's going on in their head they haven't actually got one but what they say is what's going to make you realize who they are

Yeah, I've been living with him for the last few years, on and off.

I felt with a lot of portrayals of AI.

They tended to be one note, and AI was sort of infinitely clever, but didn't really have much purpose apart from to kill everybody, and was just this kind of sort of Borg-like fog.

And I thought, that's fine, but maybe we can do something more interesting.

AI is being built by humans.

and humans you know and built by computer engineers and there's a lot of power struggles in any computer engineering team so i just wanted to explore the idea of it was built by two lead engineers who didn't like each other so not so nigel dave who's renamed himself they wanted to call him something sort of primal adam and he renamed himself nigel dave because one dad was called nigel and one dad was called dave and um

just he's riddled with these conflicts and riddled with his, it's going to become clear in the next, or clearer in the next volume of the book and in the game, he's riddled with his dad's previous careers.

But he is, the idea that he's almost infinitely intelligent or can learn almost everything but has zero wisdom.