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WCDT Strips 3006-3010 (20 to 24 July 2015)
Wildroses:
Today's comic made me wonder how AIs get their names. Do they pick them themselves? As they don't really have a helpless baby intellectual stage the way humans do it seems plausible.
Basically I'm wondering if Bubbles and Corpse Witch were named before or after becoming a robot death fighter and a robot death fighter manager. Bubbles seems the sort of name you'd pick when you are young and silly with your life before you and don't realise it will include being a fighter in an underground robot fighting ring, while Corpse Witch is utterly perfect for the manager of an underground robot fighting ring.
BenRG:
'Bubbles' seems like the sort of name a silly person would choose for a pet, which makes me wonder what her first chassis was like. Quite possibly Bubbles was a companion-AnthroPC and had a Chibi-bot chassis like Momo's original.
I'm thinking that 'Corpse Witch' is what the other robots call her. Her real name and designation is... none of your business. I wouldn't be surprised if she powers down her IFF transponder and send all her WiFi signals through several proxies to make it harder to ascertain her real identity. Her nom de crime is probably a reference (partly admiring and partly horrified) to her ability to make a profit from violence and pain. I could see CW being a bit of a marginal figure amongst the fighting AIs and their associates, feared, admired and maybe even hated to a certain degree, for her business acumen and her iron grip on her 'business'.
In other words, the same sort of personality that a human who managed an illegal cage-fighting ring would need.
Roxtar:
I love the "ow" in that frame.
moriastar:
I think the real question would be would she make them permanent or not. Removable would be better to keep things hidden, but would make them weaker in a fight. There's also the question of where would the spikes be and how much damage would they be expected to make.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 20 Jul 2015, 22:19 ---One [TECH] reason (not the reason, but just to demonstrate plausibility) would be that an AI neural net can't simply bolt on a different neural net and take off. Each network is self-organized and has a unique map of itself and its chassis. While it is relatively easy to remap the chassis map to something that is essentially the same shape (Momo's new body) becoming a fighter plane, or a dog, or a skilled welder, requires translating existing maps to the different hardware, and that requires training the neural net on how this works. That is, practice. In such a scheme, Momo would have had to practice being several times her previous size, and be comparatively clumsy, if not noticeably so.
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Is it possible that there's even several levels of neural net, and May's is actually developed as a fighter jet neural net, with adaptations so she can function in a humanoid chassis, but it's not her "native" chassis (she has to run her fighter jet-native neural net in an emulator that she's constructed around herself, possibly)?
(There's precedence for this in humans, re: body maps not matching up with the body that some people are installed in - body integrity identity disorder comes to mind, among other disorders...)
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