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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 08 Apr 2016, 18:56 ---Armor piercing hug!
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+1000 extremely insightful. Penetrates scar tissue too.
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 07 Apr 2016, 00:23 ---Are they solely software, or is there some hardware part of them? If there isn't a hardware restriction, then what's to stop a single AI being copied/copying itself everywhere?
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Because Gary? I don't know why AIs can't be copied. I blame Narrative Convenience. Once you have a competent and obedient AI, you copy it into everything and AIs become boring, instead of quirky and amusing.
mr.jacob:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Apr 2016, 02:04 ---How do AIs react? All evidence we've seen says that they're still social beings, despite being of a very different origin. This makes sense because it's probable that Dr Elicott-Chatham designed their learning algorithms to mimic the behaviour of human learning and that might include similar 'starting condition' data-sets (instincts, in other words) regarding the need to interact. So, it is quite possible that Bubbles is feeling the same things a human would - Automatic relaxation because she is no longer isolated whilst in distress.
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Let's not forget that there's a little confusion over to what extent AI's were programmed. It's possible that Dr. EC does have a child that's capable of physical contact. :-P
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 08 Apr 2016, 18:56 ---Armor piercing hug!
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I am putting that turn of phrase into permanent memory.
Storel:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 08 Apr 2016, 04:25 ---43mike.... thanks for trusting us with that. In return, may I please offer something private and personal of my own that's germane?
My partner and I are currently fulltime carers for my in-laws, one 94, the other 98. Both with senile dementia.
Hartley(98) is as deaf as a post, and has only got one arm. A souvenir of the dark days of New Guinea in 1942, when we were losing badly in the Pacific.
I sometimes have to give him reassurance at 2 or 3am that he's not in the hospital ship, neither is he under fire any more. PTSD, if not understood, and treated with a sympathetic ear so you can let all the crap out, festers, especially if you keep it all inside.
I know you don't want to talk about that crap. I wouldn't either. After all, I've never mentioned what we go through every day on this site before, having to have someone physically with them 24/7, with the other on call.
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Zoe, my wife and I spent four years living with and taking care of my mother after her dementia got so bad that it wasn't safe for her to live alone any more. Now I'm thankful she didn't have PTSD on top of that! Dementia is hard enough to deal with. She passed away from COPD last August at the age of 81. So I think I have some idea what you're going through, and I hope you and your partner have people -- besides each other -- with whom you can vent your feelings. I never mentioned it here, either, but I did vent sometimes with my friends on Facebook, and I would be honored to be a sympathetic ear if you ever need one.
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