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Is Spookybot a zombie?
Case:
--- Quote from: traroth on 24 Oct 2017, 06:37 ---An AI in multiple bodies? Reminds me of the Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy...
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Hmmmmh - I'd rather have thought of the sector-AI's in Neal Asher's Polity universe plonking a submind into an (artificial) drone body, or subsuming an independent drone's/Golem's body & mind for a spell? IIRC, the 'ancilliaries' (= "bodies") in the IR-trilogy are actual organic human Radchaai bodies.
'Distributed intelligence in many bodies' (whose versioning system has gone tits-up), otoh, would rather fit Anaander Mianaa, but Mianaai is not an AI.
In any case, Leckie is the superior writer - and there's no question about Breq being the most badass female SF-heroine since Ripley (Yes, Breq is a girl in my mind - prove me wrong :-D).
Mr_Rose:
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Have I missed it?
Or if its not here... I'm a little surprised that The Borg haven't been mentioned yet?
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I think it’s always been assumed that the core Borg personality was originally organic. Certainly the collective is composed almost entirely of organic brains, though merged by technology.
Either way I don’t think they count as a distributed AI at any point when they’ve been seen on screen.
Morituri:
I didn't think that it was assumed that there was a core Borg personality.
What you have with the Borg Collective is available resources being used and optimized for expansion of the Borg Collective. That's essentially the same program as an amoeba, with the twist that some of the resources being used are biological, sentient, and/or technological, and the additional, rather bizarre twist, that it uses the biological resources without first digesting them.
Amoebae don't have much personality. They just are what they are, because what they are is what survives in their environment and whenever some batch of primitive amoebae became something else, that batch either became an unrecognizably different species, or died off.
Maybe, sometime in the far past, some general or some prison warden or some researcher or some small group of idealists or whatever used technological means to put sentient minds into a collective. But over years, under constant survival pressure, the collective became an organism whose organization or purpose has absolutely nothing to do with whatever those people may have originally been thinking. The only organizing principle remaining is the survival imperative of the amoeba.
Dave H:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 24 Oct 2017, 16:26 ---What you have with the Borg Collective is available resources being used and optimized for expansion of the Borg Collective. That's essentially the same program as an amoeba, with the twist that some of the resources being used are biological, sentient, and/or technological, and the additional, rather bizarre twist, that it uses the biological resources without first digesting them.
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What you've just described is a corporation.
I saw an article a couple years ago (I'm sorry, but I don't remember where) proposing that corporations are an invasive species that are gradually supplanting humans as the dominant species on Earth. Corporations are parasitic, or at best symbiotic, on humans so they won't eliminate us, but their survival imperative will cause them to assimilate as many of us as possible.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person!
That's a chillingly plausible thought.
Eminence Grise must be something else though. A corporation that size could not move that quickly, for one thing.
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