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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/43941
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/43941
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I have a sentient robot in my novel. Truth to be told, I have many. Sentience is somewhat _cheap_ to achieve, meaning that there are multiple artificial beings that can be considered sentient by our standards.

I'm already making some differences and showing how he perceives the world through his set of sensory arrays. One of the core differences between us and a sentient machine, I imagine, would be sensory precision.

If I see a color, I may describe it picking between around 20-ish different terms. If I was trained all my life to distinguish between shades of colours, maybe I could get up to 60. But a sentient machine could - theoretically speaking - access raw data from its optic system. A robot could select exactly a range of pixels from his optical "nerve" and return an hexadecimal value that represent the shade with far more precision.

> "Bring me the faint yellow dress, please."
> 
> "Oh, you mean the #EEFEEF one?"

(Worse still if the robot is encoding in some finer format, like rgb: "Wait, I see only a rgb(255,255,250) dress here!")

**Coming to my question:** I was thinking of characterizing my robotic PoV using this heightened sensory data. Example of this could be him commenting on the exact weight of an object he lifts, the exact distance between his location and a point he has to reach, and so on.

## Is this a good idea, or would it be tiring for the reader?

Original score: 4