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Question about Bubbles

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Greymoon:
It's been stated by Bubbles herself that her waste product IS heat, so realistically I would imagine that any activity that required more than her usual baseline functions might produce slightly more heat, and that heat would dissipate to the area around the individual, so that's pretty similar to humans and sweating. There have been a few instances where AI characters have seemingly experienced something to trigger high levels of embarrassment or fluster, and have as a result "vented" a steamlike cloud. (Bubbles' apparently smells vaguely of pine.) It hasn't been explained or discussed any further though, if that's something that would happen under heavy bodily exertion as well.

Bubbles has also stated that her physical form (and those of other combat AI) was intended to be as "human" in appearance as possible, in the hope it would aid in bonding with human members of a military team. She has also stated that for the most part her chassis is made from very advanced parts, and has alluded that the average Joe AI would not normally have access to such (or perhaps just be unable to afford). One could conclude from that that Bubbles in particular may be more "humanlike" to the touch. She has also explained that technology in the QC universe has not yet advanced enough to enable AI to have the same sort of tactile response as humans (meaning the sensation of touch or taste in this case), but that the trade-off is that she has a much superior sense of smell, and can see color spectrums that humans cannot, among a few other things, and that mentally, they experience things more or less exactly the way that humans do.

I believe that this is about as in-depth as QC will ever get insofar as bodily makeup, and I think that that is exactly the way it should be.

Thrillho:
Jeph's explanations for how AIs are designed have often indicated that the ones in the QC universe were often designed, when a humanoid shape, to function a lot like humans regardless of whether that's necessary or even makes sense, so I wouldn't be surprised if she would increase in temperature during sex, have a 'sweat' function, etc.

Is it cold in here?:
Momo produced an anime sweat drop once.

Evaporating water uses up a staggering amount of energy. If we need to do it to maintain a safe temperature then humanoid AI bodies must require something nearly as good, and a body like Bubbles's can generate a lot more heat than we can.

Something like soapstone could help by storing heat to be released later.

Storel:

--- Quote from: Thrillho on 26 May 2018, 07:36 ---Jeph's explanations for how AIs are designed have often indicated that the ones in the QC universe were often designed, when a humanoid shape, to function a lot like humans regardless of whether that's necessary or even makes sense, so I wouldn't be surprised if she would increase in temperature during sex, have a 'sweat' function, etc.

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A lot of it is simply that most of the stuff in our world is designed to be used by humans (stairs, doors, furniture, cars, appliances, TV sets, clothing, etc. etc. etc.), so you generally need to be approximately human shape and size (or less) to use them properly too. And most of the rest of it is making AIs seem more humanlike so humans can get along with them more easily. So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised either.

Dandi Andi:

--- Quote from: Storel ---
A lot of it is simply that most of the stuff in our world is designed to be used by humans (stairs, doors, furniture, cars, appliances, TV sets, clothing, etc. etc. etc.), so you generally need to be approximately human shape and size (or less) to use them properly too.

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That's a good point. Do you suppose they might expand the ADA or write new legislation to require reasonable accessibility accommodations for AIs not embodied in human-like chassis? I'm suddenly thinking of Gordon and pre-modification Jeremy. Not every AI will have a humanoid shape. They would struggle to come into CoD for tea.

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