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WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: RyanW1019 on 04 Jun 2012, 14:03 ---I just realized that I've been mentally reading Momo with Starfire's voice this whole time. :psyduck:
Reference for those who don't know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbNuoQTiGc
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Strangely enough, me too :-D
Throg:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 04 Jun 2012, 18:42 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 04 Jun 2012, 17:26 ---There was a newspost that described a global meta-AI.
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The one here:
--- Quote ---Artificial intelligences are created in a virtual environment, where they are stored in a "creche" of other AIs in their generation. When bootstrapped to self-awareness, they are given a choice of function- commercial use (AnthroPCs), military, scientific, etc, or allowed to subsume in the global meta-AI. If they choose to go into "retail" they are allowed to choose a self-identity and are shipped to a reputable "dealer" (such as Idoru, in today's strip) where they are put up for "sale."
Purchase of an AI is not a binding contract- either party is free to terminate the relationship at any time, and the transaction agent will refund the contract fee. The use of terms like "sale" and "owner" are considered offensive by some, and are becoming rather politically incorrect (my use of them here is solely for sake of comparison, hence the quotation marks).
One would think that the majority of AIs would choose to simply be given a chassis and left to make their own way in the world, but the majority who do not go into a specialized profession choose to pair up with a human "owner." There has been much speculation by both humans and AIs as to the reason for this- no aspect of their programming indicates a cause for such a bias. The general consensus is that the average AI simply finds your average human entertaining, and enjoys the companionship.
tl;dr I am a big ol nerd
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Oh yeah, I remember the bit about the "creche". That's why I want to read Jeph's "canon". Who controls the artificial environment and the creche? Is there a single actual consciousness in the global AI? Do the AI's think of themselves as a "race"? Are they as puzzled by aspects of their own sentience as humans have been, down the centuries?
cvcharger:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 04 Jun 2012, 00:26 ---That would explain why AI's haven't progressed far beyond the Northeastern US or California, I would reckon.
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Really, what if AIs are just hiding among the humans within the rest of the nation???
mustang6172:
I'm sick of Momo's "Little Mermaid" comics.
Kugai:
Tai
At least the AnthroPC's aren't thinking of going Cylon on the Humans
Yet
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