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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
Loki:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 23 Apr 2013, 11:22 ---And who is making the new AIs anyway?
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AIs. All the way down.
Seriously, maybe AIs are like software in the real world. There are some variants that are open-source, but there are custom-build solutions that cost (like, say, a certain AI for nuclear warfare). The creators of most AI make no money from the AIs themselves, but from the matchmaking service they provide, and from the costs of hardware that has to go with an AI. And which also has to be upgraded from time to time, and sometimes fixed if the owner cannot do it themselves.
Is it cold in here?:
Companion AIs presumably get their first body from their human companion, and matchmaking interviews could be done from their natal server. Apple, Mitsubishi, and Sony at least make AnthroPC bodies. The references to "Sony AnthroPC" and "Apple AnthroPC" may refer to bundling arrangements where the hardware manufacturer provides a turnkey body/adoption solution.
Masterpiece:
If AIs can procreate themselves, what happens to population control? Won't there be too many robots at some point?
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 23 Apr 2013, 11:22 ---We know that Momo and others chose to be companions for whatever reason they had, but nobody as far as I know has talked much about their existence before hand. Were they AIs who wanted a corporeal existence? Did they have other jobs and other bodies before becoming companions? They can hold jobs presumably legally (Momo works in the library, unless it's under the table). So what other jobs can or do AnthroPCs hold? And who is making the new AIs anyway?
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Forklifts, potentially ICBM-carrying submarines, banks.
Plenty of things where the chassis wouldn't be humanoid at all.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 23 Apr 2013, 13:56 ---If AIs can procreate themselves, what happens to population control? Won't there be too many robots at some point?
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Assuming an AI hive mind (no real evidence I can remember presented in comic, but it's almost an assumption in forum discussion) one could reasonably extrapolate there is some logical framework for deciding when there is a need for new physical AI receptacles to be manufactured, and it's not just a case of robots off somewhere interfacing like crazed WeaselPCs.
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