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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
Tova:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Dec 2016, 06:29 ---They're standard equipment on eternal bandicoots.
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Mine was closed off shortly after birth. There's still a scar on my belly.
Mr. Skawronska:
--- Quote from: wlewisiii on 22 Dec 2016, 08:51 ---I acrtually agree that even station can't hack the key by brute force. No, what Station can hack is _CW_. There are no defenses, no "Black Ice" for those of you who remember Neuromancer, that could stand between her and an AI with the strength of station. Station could walk in and like in Walter Jon Williams' tale "hand that texan his as*hole"
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Interesting you would choose Hardwired by WJW. The line actually is: "Hand this Texan's ass to him."
But yes, that is absolutely in the realm of possibility.
Thanks for using the reference from one of my favorite books.
Perfectly Reasonable:
To BenRG: I would not accept what you propose as a 'backup'.
To Case: No, Jeph has not said AIs cannot be duplicated. But Winslow was obviously meant as the prototype for a consumer product. Why doesn't he have 10,000 identical brothers?
If you could reliably duplicate a competent and obedient AI we'd never have the likes of Gordon and Pintsize. Dull.
Morituri:
Just imagine Sony's response to product liability concerns if someone proposed that they should produce an army of Pintsize.
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
Perhaps the secret of Pintsize is that he was the prototype for a sabotage AI. Produce him in large numbers and sell him as a consumer product in a specific market, which is a future target or potential enemy of the US. When US AI Command gives the signal the Pintsizes go to work, doing things like flooding local communications networks with porn. And since they were sold through a consumer products company you have plausible deniability, especially if a very similar model was sold in other markets. It's no different than how a model of computer may be sold in different markets with minor variations to comply with local regulations and so on.
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