lit - literature

A masterpiece scifi novel about development of digital pet that grows into much more humanlike AI.
It's interesting because it's quite realistic (and in fact inspires me to continue my own alife experiments).
Other scifi stories often paint AI godlike entity that is created by accident and kills people by some reason, it's very beaten and unrealistic trope, here is why:

In the last decades it became widely understood that learning and development is the main and most technically complex component of an AI. The best learning algorithms learn by finding patterns in the stream of experience IO that flows into AI as it's body interacts with environment.
This is the kind of AI described in this book.