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so when and whos going to be the first character in a ai/human romance ?
awgiedawgie:
Technology has always progressed at blinding speeds, so it's no surprise that the AI world would advance similarly. Only a few years have passed in-universe since the comic began.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: torrrential on 04 May 2018, 02:10 ---One of the issues that concerns me and may be responsible for some of the confusing issues is that there has clearly been a development in the AI world whereas the main characters seem to be frozen in time. The "twenty-somethings" that we met when the comic started should now be mid-thirties going on forty.
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I think that's just a case of "the world" being unfolded before us (the reader) slowly, as the strip itself progressed.
It isn't that AI has progressed faster than the strip, just that it's always been there, we just haven't seen it.
Is it cold in here?:
The Singularity must have been a long time coming and was not visibly showing at the start of the strip.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 May 2018, 01:31 ---FWIW, most theoretical xenobiologists acknowledge that life does not have to be based on hydrocarbon protein biology to be 'alive'. It's just that it would be much harder for us to recognize a silicon-based life-form as anything except a rock unless it moved and greeted us.
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With that kind of logic then looking at carbon in its pure state carbon based life should be either black and crumbly or crystal clear, hard and very brittle. Yeah silly isn't it.
Yeah, extrapolation based on inference based on very little data can get you into all sorts of trouble, or laughed at by fans if you are a self proclaimed science fiction writer [not gonna mention her name]
Silicon life would be using a very different chemistry and most likely a very different environmental zone of temperature and pressure but the real difference would be in the developmental path taken. based on the environment itself and how it relates to the chemistry and the physical challenges presented.
Look at some of the earliest life forms that developed here on earth and you would be freaked out by just how strange and alien they were.
Heck, logistically if a planets evolutionary path was similar to our own they could develop a similar humanoid with similar social structures.
It is an intriguing though experiment.
snufflebottoms:
--- Quote from: torrrential on 04 May 2018, 02:10 ---One of the issues that concerns me and may be responsible for some of the confusing issues is that there has clearly been a development in the AI world whereas the main characters seem to be frozen in time. The "twenty-somethings" that we met when the comic started should now be mid-thirties going on forty.
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The humans are the unchanging machines in QC world.
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