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WCDT: 2510-2514 (August 12-16, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesium133:
I don't know about Northampton, but I know here you can see at best a handful of stars because the light pollution is so bad.
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Aug 2013, 11:04 ---AIs are copyable. Pintsize got backed up to Marten's desktop computer at one point and continued conversing in a Pintsize-like way.
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I think this is a slip on Jeph's part. Everything we've seen since suggests strongly that AIs are not copyable.
Suppose they were. Once you managed to generate a capable and cooperative AI, you could mass reproduce it for all sorts of devices. ReallySmartPhones, for instance. (Wouldn't you like to have an autocorrect that didn't embarrass you?)
But we don't see anything like this in the QCverse. Each AI is a distinct and unique individual.
GarandMarine:
From Prison Staff
To Dale Whatyerface
Subj: AI Companion Test
The funds have been wired to your account... uh... would you mind keeping her? Like on a regular basis? You have to understand just how quiet things are here without May as she's apparently been designated now.
Sorflakne:
Dale's already bought her.
--- Quote ---I think this is a slip on Jeph's part. Everything we've seen since suggests strongly that AIs are not copyable.
Suppose they were. Once you managed to generate a capable and cooperative AI, you could mass reproduce it for all sorts of devices. ReallySmartPhones, for instance. (Wouldn't you like to have an autocorrect that didn't embarrass you?)
But we don't see anything like this in the QCverse. Each AI is a distinct and unique individual.
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He wasn't copied, he was transferred to another machine so his chassis could be worked on. No slip up happened.
Besides, there's nothing so far to say that AI is not cognitive, in that perhaps they all start with a base personality, and then learn and evolve as they interact with their owners and environment to develop their own distinct personalities.
K1dmor:
That last panel...
It brings me memories.
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