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On the psychology of Artificial Intelligence
mustang6172:
I recall Marten having to reboot Pintsize from backup discs. This indicates that AI's can be copied.
Makes me wonder what Momo went through when she got the new chassis. Was a copy placed into the new chassis and the old one deleted? Do you have to "kill" an AI to move it from one chassis to the next?
Smallest:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 23 Jan 2015, 21:55 ---I recall Marten having to reboot Pintsize from backup discs. This indicates that AI's can be copied.
Makes me wonder what Momo went through when she got the new chassis. Was a copy placed into the new chassis and the old one deleted? Do you have to "kill" an AI to move it from one chassis to the next?
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I assumed it was like when you drag and drop files into folders, although admittedly usually they copy if you're putting them onto a new stick or whatever.
ReindeerFlotilla:
You'll have to define "kill" to answer that question.
hedgie:
Well, since transferring the AI from one chassis to another is a matter of copying files over and then deleting the original, it's like the debate as to whether or not Star Trek transporters "kill" a person and make a copy at the other end. Are they really the same person?
Oilman:
I'd have thought that some sort of EULA applied, like those versions of programmes that specify the number of installations. Momo, or whichever was in discussion, would have a back-up CD with an installation/uninstall wizard on it. Whichever chassis Momo was in at present would be the only functioning version at that time.
I don't like the idea of a quasi-human Pintsize one little bit. Pintsize gets away with a lot of things because he clearly isn't human. The idea of a robot immersing itself in porn is ridiculous, a non-sequitur, a case of "rule of funny". Same goes for grabbing the girls' boobs, humping the espresso machine and the rest of it. It isn't "robot racism", it's just "rule of funny", where the joke is that the action is nonsensical or irrelevant. FAYE can get away with looking under Momo's skirt, but if Marten did it, that would be creepy.
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