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WCDT: 2573-2577 (11-15 November 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: Game and Watch Forever on 11 Nov 2013, 21:36 ---I think it'd be less a mentally challenged person and more a trained animal, perhaps? Otherwise I feel like Dora would have to have the machine on payroll...
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Hmm... Do espresso machines have any form of "brain"? If not, would it be any more sentient than a pair of scissors, for example?
Robo-frottage?
katsmeat:
For a sentient coffee machine you'd need:
1) An AI who wants to be a coffee machine, presumably it does happen as at least one wanted to be a toaster.
2) A coffee-shop owner willing to pay for the extra-expensive coffee-machine with the CPU power needed to host an AI, and who the Coffee Machine AI is willing to work with. Lots of extra cost for a machine that produces the same coffee - I can't see Dora going for that anytime soon. Though perhaps the Robot Cafe has one.
Forget that. The *interesting* question is exactly what kind of special are they charging $50 for.
techkid:
Maybe that's where Pintsize comes in?
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Yes, I am aware that sounds terrible. I don't think I want that "special" now.
J:
i was going to ask why anyone would buy complex sentient appliances for such simple tasks, but then i remembered this
GarandMarine:
and that leads to one of my favorite comics http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2009
Any way, I don't think a non-sentient machine would be treated any differently then any other inanimate object would you? A non-AI espresso machine is better compared to a pair of scissors then Momo.
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