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    The document summarizes the two main characters, Joe and Milton, in Isaac Asimov's short story "True Love". Joe is an intelligent computer program and narrator who claims to know almost everything. Milton is a nearly 40-year old unmarried computer programmer who created Joe and is lonely because he has never found the right woman.

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    The document summarizes the two main characters, Joe and Milton, in Isaac Asimov's short story "True Love". Joe is an intelligent computer program and narrator who claims to know almost everything. Milton is a nearly 40-year old unmarried computer programmer who created Joe and is lonely because he has never found the right woman.

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    Characters of True Love by Isaac Asimov

    Characters
    The story “True Love” by Isaac Asimov includes two active characters, Milton and
    Joe, which we will help you characterize next. The women and the police are
    episodic, absent character…

    Joe
    Joe is the narrator of the short story, an intelligent computer program (which
    today we would call AI – Artificial Intelligence). Accordingly, its outer
    characterization tells us that it is a software that works with data, algorithms,
    and symbols, and which has been programmed to learn human language: “I am part of
    the Multivac-complex and am connected with other parts all over the world. I know
    everything. Almost everything.” (ll. 2-4); “I am Milton's private program. (...) I
    am his experimental model. He has made me speak better than any other computer
    can.” (ll. 5-7)

    Inner characterization
    Joe’s inner characterization is built by using its perspective on the events as a
    narrator and through its thoughts and actions.

    Although Joe is a computer program, it has a number of human traits. Firstly, Joe
    claims that it knows almost everything (l. 4) and speaks better than other
    computers (l. 7), suggesting that Joe has some sense of self-pride and self-
    importance. …

    ...

    Milton
    Milton is the second main character in the short story, who is depicted from Joe’s
    perspective. Milton’s outer characterization tells us that he is an unmarried
    computer programmer who is “nearly forty years old” (l. 13) and who has designed
    the intelligent computer program named Joe.

    Inner characterization
    Milton’s inner characterization presents him as a very skilled computer programmer
    as he was able to design Joe, a computer with the capacity of speech and powerful
    data-processing: “He understands more about programming than anyone in the world,
    and I am his experimental model. He has made me speak better than any other
    computer can.” (ll. 5-7)

    However, he is lonely because he “has never found the right woman” (ll. 13-14). The
    fact that he decides to use Joe to he…

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