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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 06 Apr 2016, 07:10 --- The question then revolves around population control: how do AIs reproduce and what restrictions are there on creating AIs?
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My headcanon is that creating AIs is EXTREMELY expensive. And there seems to be a lot of randomness involved. So if you get an unsuitable one, you don't delete it. (Besides, Gary wouldn't like it.) So you put it aside and try to find another use for it. (Pintsize, Gordon, Charlotte, May...)
Winslow... Was obviously intended for a mass-produced consumer product. But it didn't work out. So Marigold ended up with him somehow.
Tova:
Bubbles' metaphorical/emotional armour will well and truly be back on when Faye walks into the room.
I'm not really concerned for her physical safety, but she might be in for a difficult conversation.
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: Luzahn on 06 Apr 2016, 21:03 ---Aw yeah, way to go Faye.
Friendship: 1
CORPSE WITCH: 0
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Unless Bubbles finally murders Faye.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 06 Apr 2016, 21:27 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 06 Apr 2016, 07:10 --- The question then revolves around population control: how do AIs reproduce and what restrictions are there on creating AIs?
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My headcanon is that creating AIs is EXTREMELY expensive. And there seems to be a lot of randomness involved. So if you get an unsuitable one, you don't delete it. (Besides, Gary wouldn't like it.) So you put it aside and try to find another use for it. (Pintsize, Gordon, Charlotte, May...)
Winslow... Was obviously intended for a mass-produced consumer product. But it didn't work out. So Marigold ended up with him somehow.
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Winslow is with Hanners. Marigold hangs with Momo. But pedantry aside, I'm inclined to agree that it is, in computation time at least, it would be very resource-intensive. IIRC, Jeph has stated that AI in the QC verse was an emergent phenomenon. It might even be possible that humans cannot actually create AI, but merely the conditions under which they would most likely emerge.
Once AIs came into existence, I'm pretty sure that they have some mechanism for reproduction amongst themselves in a manner like the CPU time it'd take to mine the last 100 bitcoins for each AI. I would expect that each AI involved in making a baby would have to go through a protracted gestation. For someone with Station's computational ability, he could probably stick junior in a couple of processor banks for a few weeks and check in periodically. For the AIs in the main cast, they might not even be able to do it solo without effectively shutting down everything else. Even if they paired up to have a little one, they might be complaining that elephants "have it too easy".
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 06 Apr 2016, 19:46 ---I like to think that CW is reevaluating her views tactics.
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FTFY.
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