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Do AI in Questionable Content design and assemble their own offspring?
Morituri:
Obviously the first few generations of robot chassis were designed and built by humans.
But, in a post-singularity world, it's generally considered likely that most new AI (software and processing hardware) will be designed by AI. And it will almost certainly be the case that however the construction of chassis happens it will likely be robots doing most of the assembly work - whether that's at a factory, or elsewhere.
It's already been mentioned in-comic that most AI spend their first few years in virtual reality, and get downloaded into a chassis where they can interact with the physical world only once somebody (who, exactly?) is convinced they're sane - or at least, not dangerous. Melon may be an example of "neither sane nor dangerous" and she's out in the world.
Anyway... it seems like all the plausible parts are there for AI parents to design the minds of their offspring and then design and assemble bodies for them as well.
And even if that's not the way most AI do it, Faye and Bubbles both know more about the design and assembly of robot chassis than pretty much everybody by this point; they could. If they wanted to, they could have (build) children - an equal collaboration by both partners, and no outside help from a donor would be required.
It would almost certainly be considered weird for a human to be in a 'parent' role to a new AI. Would it also be considered weird by the AI community for the offspring to get a 'child-size' chassis and not spend childhood in Virtual?
snufflebottoms:
They might be working on that technology!
Undrneath:
I would think that the creation of an AI from two AI parents would be the combination of half of each of the parents code much like the biologic counterpart.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 26 May 2018, 20:42 ---
Obviously the first few generations of robot chassis were designed and built by humans.
But, in a post-singularity world, it's generally considered likely that most new AI (software and processing hardware) will be designed by AI. And it will almost certainly be the case that however the construction of chassis happens it will likely be robots doing most of the assembly work - whether that's at a factory, or elsewhere.
It's already been mentioned in-comic that most AI spend their first few years in virtual reality, and get downloaded into a chassis where they can interact with the physical world only once somebody (who, exactly?) is convinced they're sane - or at least, not dangerous. Melon may be an example of "neither sane nor dangerous" and she's out in the world.
Anyway... it seems like all the plausible parts are there for AI parents to design the minds of their offspring and then design and assemble bodies for them as well.
And even if that's not the way most AI do it, Faye and Bubbles both know more about the design and assembly of robot chassis than pretty much everybody by this point; they could. If they wanted to, they could have (build) children - an equal collaboration by both partners, and no outside help from a donor would be required.
It would almost certainly be considered weird for a human to be in a 'parent' role to a new AI. Would it also be considered weird by the AI community for the offspring to get a 'child-size' chassis and not spend childhood in Virtual?
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I recall seeing somewhere in the comics that the first AI spent a while in VR, but I don’t remember seeing anything about most AIs doing that. Since AIs are as uncertain as humans about how AIs happen, it seems that they would not be any more or less able to create new ones. The process is repeatable... it’s just that no one knows how it works.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said they spend their early life in a VR creche. There's probably a quote somewhere in the wiki.
The idea that Faye and Bubbles could have a reasonable number of babies and have them be synthetics had not even occurred to me. Fascinating!
Yes, AIs could do half of each parent, but they're not limited to that and might prefer something more intentional.
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