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WCDT strips 3671 to 3675 (5th to 9th February 2018)
WoaLG:
So what's the betting pool that this ship will either sail or sink on February 14th?
(I hate that word, but I'm not sure what else to call it in this case.)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Aenno on 06 Feb 2018, 23:55 ---
--- Quote ---it's because she finds the body in question attractive and she's struggling against lots of weird reactions and urges.
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I _do_ wonder which weird reactions and, especially, urges AI has here. Do somebody installed hormonal system in her body and made a setup to link AI core to said system?
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It is clear that there is some characteristic of Chatham-type AIs (much like Smart AIs in the Halo universe) that they mimic human brain-patterns in the development of friendships, personal emotional bonds and even sexual attraction. This is not hormonal as they don't have a hormonal system or even an analogue thereof. Rather, it seems to be some aspect of their personality algorithms that makes them seek emotional connections with others and, possibly through mimicry of humans around them, this sometimes expresses itself as sexual attraction.
Whilst it is unlikely that they have an instinctual reproductive drive, they do seem to subconsciously understand that sex is one of the deepest expressions of intimacy possible and that seems to manifest itself as reacting strongly to the appropriate imagery or experiences that match their attraction preferences.
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 07 Feb 2018, 00:46 ---So what's the betting pool that this ship will either sail or sink on February 14th?
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I don't think so; my feeling is that Jeph is moving the arc forward to the point where Faye recognises that there is some kind of thing happening between her and Bubbles and going no further than that immediately. I'm wondering if we'll reach that point this Friday, actually. From what he's said on Twitter, the next arc will be Emily-centric and I expect that next week.
Aenno:
--- Quote ---It is clear that there is some characteristic of Chatham-type AIs (much like Smart AIs in the Halo universe) that they mimic human brain-patterns in the development of friendships, personal emotional bonds and even sexual attraction. This is not hormonal as they don't have a hormonal system or even an analogue thereof. Rather, it seems to be some aspect of their personality algorithms that makes them seek emotional connections with others and, possibly through mimicry of humans around them, this sometimes expresses itself as sexual attraction.
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Sure. But it's a very complicated problem. Sorry for overanalysing the joke, by the way.
(click to show/hide)Humans became sexually aroused (not to be equaled with "romantically attracted"!) by hormonal working, normally non-controllable through conscious thought, and it's essentially body thing, not mind thing (so I can't see it as fundamental option of sentient mind of any type). I belive it's quite obvious that AIs here lack correct hardware system to reproduce it, and AI personalities is separate from their bodies anyway, so very concept of sexual arousing, especially human sexual arousing, is alien for them. It should be software emulation. Question is, how exactly mechanism of emulating sexual attraction works.
It can be concious action from AI side, "acting" if I can use this word, when AI decides that he wants to create this kind of bond, to "feel human" for example. I doubt it's Bubbles' case. It is possible, for sure, but can't imagine pre-romance Bubbles to actually decide to act this way. Also even if we believes that AIs think faster that humans, this kind of system would be limited by AI personal experience, and by this kinda weird until it's AI perfectly socialized into human society in question (I mean, if we have AI who ever was socialized in one social structure, he wouldn't adequate in another).
Or it can be special software, "sexual DLLs", with instructions to mind to load and behave some way beyond rational command. It is nice emulation for instinctive reations like sexual arose, but this DLLs should be installed first time. I can totally believe that kind of libraries is created by AIs in QC world (to integrate them in society better, for example, or to improve "human experience" AIs have), and put into net for free downloading (I believe something like that was described in earlier comics, with Pintsize and gender description), but then Bubbles needed to download and install them.
So essentially as sexual arousing is alien for AIs by design, it should be conscious action by AI to emulate them, and if so Bubbles looks quite masochistic here, don't you think? I mean she looks like situation kinda unpleasant and unexpected to her.
BenRG:
I think that you're getting too deep into the whys and wherefores Aenno. All Jeph has to do is be internally consistent to his own universe. He is not obliged to make what he portrays in his work consistent to how real work AI would work.
FWIW, in the Halo universe, because they are directly derived from real human synaptic patterns, AIs subconsciously 'fill in the gaps' by creating in themselves reaction patterns that are analogous to attraction. So, they don't need any biological basis for it, they are 'psychosomatically' responding to what their intelligence algorithm insists ought to be there.
jwhouk:
It is suggested that this is the case with Officer Basilik, at least with her feet.
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