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WCDT: 2510-2514 (August 12-16, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Rimwolf:
--- Quote from: Akima on 16 Aug 2013, 02:36 ---May plainly reads Dale Carnegie: "Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars."
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Perhaps Dale Carnegie read Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
FuryoftheStars:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 15 Aug 2013, 22:54 ---
--- 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.
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Actually, this is still considered as "copying". Bytes of data are not so much something physical that the PC can move around but more so a state of being. So even when you're doing a cut & paste or specific "move" operation on a PC, you're actually telling the computer "copy file(s) from A to B, then delete from A."
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 15 Aug 2013, 23:09 ---Just noticed her hand is through his. Aww.
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Didn't see the hands until I read your post, but yeah, my first reaction was "aww" as well.
Pilchard123:
That copy/move thing isn't always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv
FuryoftheStars:
Right, coping within the same file system and on the same piece of media, if merely changes the reference headers. But with just about anything else, that's not the case.
Point I was trying to make is that in moving the AI from say, one AnthroPC chassis to another, is copying the AI from one to the other, then deleting the old. Even the process of loading the AI into RAM is technically copying it.
Pilchard123:
So you were, sorry. I missed the bit about Pintsize.
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