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On the origin of species (AI)
jwhouk:
Yeah, 512 MB makes Winslow too chipper.
Hey, the old APC models may have intentionally been made that way to reduce the need for excessive computing power.
Carl-E:
Reminds me of "Your Plastic Pal that's fun to be with" ((c) Sirius Cybernetics Corp.) more than a true companion.
I don't think it was Momo's personality or mental capabilities that changed with the new chassis, but rather her physical ability to (finally) do useful things.
Which makes me wonder why they didn't put May into a smaller, more chibi (and so potentially less damage producing) chassis. I'm guessing it's part of her rehabilitation program, so she can "become a useful, productive member of society".
It seems that AI fashions and styles are developing at a rather rapid pace in QCverse. The old ones (like Pintsize, winslow and and PT410x) are more and more rare. Momo showed up soon after, but she's a specialized model (from Japan!). After the practice boyfriend - clearly a prototype that hannerdad got his hands on, or even designed - you get the shopgirls and the larger Momo.
It's sorta like the jump from the flipphones, Blackberrys and sliding keypad bricks that everyone was using ten years ago to iPhones and Galaxys. A not-quite-quantum change in the tech that leaves us with a weird mix of the two levels in use. Pintsize's LAN party was all smaller APC's like him.
I wonder how much of the change is tied to the AI rights laws. Which one propagated the other? Did getting rights make the larger more modern chassis more popular among AI's and their owners, or did the larger chassis necessitate the rights laws? People being people, I'd bet the second.
jwhouk:
I'd suspect the latter, too. It may have been that the older, smaller APC chassis was intentional to allay the fears of humans over a "robot uprising." As time went on, the larger chassis may have become more acceptable as tastes changed and as it was proven robots weren't "out to destroy the world".
At least, not that we know about...
HauntingPoem:
Well, aside from very vengeful vespas that is...
jwhouk:
Do you get the feeling that there's some anime character in the QC-verse - a "rock-em, sock-em" robot - that looks amazingly like Pintsize?
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