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WCDT: 2495-2499 (22-26 July, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Kugai:
May: "NOOOOOO! Not the White Rooommmm!!!!"
Storel:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 26 Jul 2013, 10:32 ---We don't know Pintsize's age, but he was with Marten for at least two years before the rest of the gang showed up, and he's never mentioned a previous vocation.
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Actually, the strip where Pintsize first gets assigned to Marten makes it pretty clear that the store personnel already knew all about Pintsize's proclivity toward violence and property damage. So it's very likely that Pintsize had already been companioned to at least one person before Marten, but was returned for... let's just call it "incompatibility". :wink: Otherwise there'd be no reason for the AI behind the desk to get so nervous and feel such a sudden urge to discuss "...our return procedure. And our criminal liability agreement. And our insurance policies."
And in the arc where Marigold gets Momo a new chassis, 1997 and 1999 show that some AIs try out multiple jobs before finding one they really like.
--- Quote ---It seems likely that an AI starting out as a companion is probably freshly 'hatched', especially on a new project like this.
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Since 1999 also points out that "most of us are happy with our chosen role", indicating that only a minority of AIs do much job-hopping, I'd agree with that, as long as the "likely" and "probably" are understood to indicate that it's not true for all AIs.
I'd think they have to give new AIs some basic education before letting them loose on the real world, though, or how are the new AI's supposed to have any idea what they want to do?
Edit:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 26 Jul 2013, 14:27 ---May: "NOOOOOO! Not the White Rooommmm!!!!"
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--- Quote from: kyomi on 26 Jul 2013, 14:36 ---With black curtains, near the station?
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Dang, now I've got that song running through my head... :-P
Carl-E:
Of course I got it, but I just read it. We're not all on 24-7, you know...
Also, May said she'd been rejected fifteen times that morning. How many days of rejection before that were there? And if Dale rejects her, won't she just go looking for another sucker beta tester?
It's not the end of May, not by a long shot.
jwhouk:
I wonder if this is actually a means of developing an AI's 'morality code' - something perhaps added when the Powers That Be strongly suggested to the central AI that it do something since there may have been cases of... um, companion neglect on the part of AnthroPC's with their human counterparts?
Carl-E:
So... suggested because of Pintsize?
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