Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-27144409-20191216233738/@comment-24018437-20191220222707

Its a classic story, really. A machine is build with artificial intelligence, but as the show, game, book etc goes on, they learn more about human behavior, habits and emotions. They start to feel these emotions as well. They don't just start to live, they become human. Penny may be a robot in body, but in soul and emotions (I would say heart and mind, but that's not biologicaly correct), she's very much human.

Its like with EDI from Mass Effect. She started out as just an advanced AI whose purpose is to help the Normandy crew. By the end of the trilogy, she's learned what it means to be human. She likes to crack jokes like humans, she values friendship and loyalty like humans, she ponders human things and she even learns to love like a human when she gets involved in a relationship with Joker, a human.