Not done with chapter 1 yet, but the part about the game seems interesting. The foreign character learns Japanese and you can tell they’re making progress based on the player’s input, e.g. grammar and expression. Sounds kind of similar to how AI works with how it can remember previous conversations. Interesting. This book is from 1998. Were games like this back then? I think they were way more simplistic, right? Could this be considered contemporary science fiction or what to call it?
It does sound quite advanced for the time. Even with today’s tech, if the thing is learning English from scratch just from you talking to it… not sure we know how to do that? (not an AI expert) But you know, it was obviously programmed by our favorite 天才プログラマ so it’s got to be amazing. Did you notice that she left her name in the game?
