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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Veloso:
I had to go straight to this thread after today's comic, and I'm glad a lot of you are calling the same things I'm seeing here.
Emily's flightiness is stretched pretty far beyond anything reasonably credible, even by QC rules. And, as you guys point out, the rules of the universe are being rewritten, and now terms like "owner" are badly politically incorrect. It looks like Emily's flightiness is so she can ask offensive questions everyone should already know the answer to, so that Moma can go into exposition mode. Yikes. I'll be glad when this is over.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Veloso on 27 Sep 2012, 04:47 ---the rules of the universe are being rewritten, and now terms like "owner" are badly politically incorrect.
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The problem that leads to the differing points of view in the forum is that the QC world has undergone fundamental changes in the relationship between humans and AIs as Jeph has explored this interest of his more deeply. As the time represented in the whole of QC is no more than about two years, this means either that the situation in the QC universe has only just changed - in which case Emily falling into old habits of speaking is not surprising - or that the current QC universe is not the same as that represented in the earlier comics - in which case confusion among the readers is not surprising.
techkid:
--- Quote from: Throg on 27 Sep 2012, 04:45 ---That iPod-like device that Momo's plugging into her ear makes me wonder about AI's. Was she listening to music? Downloading a portion of the library catalog for her job? Uploading surveillance information on human interactions to the mothership?
At any rate, I'm guessing that human consciousness is actually so taxing for AI's to replicate that the vastly superior computing power is only just able to keep up. Otherwise, you've got a little creature like Pintsize actually only devoting a small portion of its mind to wacky hijinks, while the other 80% of his consciousness is doing...god knows what.
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I guess one question to ask in response to this is, what sort of processing power do AnthroPCs have? The sorts of AI being displayed here is mind-bogglingly complex (yes, even Pintsize), and depending on how "recent" AI advances are in the QCverse, it would take a buttload of processing power, RAM and storage space to contain and manage it.
Chances are good that Momo could be probably updating her music library (it doesn't take much to run a music player, after all, and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to the imagination that they would have a "personal mode" built into their software (where one can run music or movies or whatever for their own personal enjoyment (VERY useful in a library environment))). 350 songs is about 2.5GB, and here and now we have storage space measured in terabytes (1024GB). It would be reasonable to assume that they would have more than enough space for multimedia and web surfing (they are companion AnthroPCs, and what anyone and just about everyone ends up doing with their computer IRL is either going online, listening to music or both at the same time).
judemorrigan:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Sep 2012, 14:22 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 26 Sep 2012, 13:57 ---Granted, she was just reciting a Sony ad text at that time and had just moved in to live with Marigold, but even so...
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You know, I hadn't even considered that she'd just moved in with Marigold, I assumed Marbear had just moved into that apartment and that she'd had Momo for years.
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For what it's worth, at the time of her chassis upgrade, Momo was 2.7 years old. (See strips 1995 and 2009)
jmucchiello:
--- Quote ---I spent AI 101 looking at cat gifs.
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First sensible thing Emily's ever said.
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