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Do AI in Questionable Content design and assemble their own offspring?
awgiedawgie:
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--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 27 May 2018, 08:59 ---Uh...AIs have offspring?
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There has been no sign of that, at all. There have been no parent/child dynamics between AIs shown, talked about or suggested in the comic. Nor any AIs talking about becoming or desiring to become parents. So no, I don't think that happens. We also know that aside from possibly the first true AI, they aren't created. Humans or other AIs don't program new AIs. They just seem to happen....
My personal headcanon is that new AIs can occur spontaneously. Where a complex system becomes self aware or the mingling of other AIs gives rise to the new one. But nobody thinks of the contributing AI as parents because either it's something that can't be forced to happen, and/or it takes a lot more than just two contributing AI, so as a culture they tend to think of new AIs as part of a culture and are cared for as a group instead of a handful of parents taking responsiblity.
Another option is that new AIs are created by those god-level AI that are sometimes mentioned. The ones who eschew any sort of physical body Momo has talked about how their thought process and computing power is well beyond what an embodied AI is because they don't have to spend processing time using and controlling physical bodies. That they are so beyond what even other AIs can understand and they are the source of new AIs.
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What about Hannelore’s Roomba and (I assume) Mrs. Roomba, and their three little Roombinos (and the guys at the Roomba factory commenting about the one with the jet engine trying to reproduce with another one)? Or when Jeremy and Seven were confessing their mutual attraction, and a comment in the strip (or maybe it was Jeph’s subtitle) said something along the lines of “they’re going to have a million robo-babies”? Sorry, I’d give links, but my laptop just puked, so it’s a little more difficult right now.
Gyrre:
"Half of each parent" kind of neglects the nurture side of things, doesn't it?
Also, couldn't doing that with coding lead to some really wonky stuff?
:-o What if Melon is a 2nd generation AI?!?
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 30 May 2018, 06:01 ---"Half of each parent" kind of neglects the nurture side of things, doesn't it?
Also, couldn't doing that with coding lead to some really wonky stuff?
:o What if Melon is a 2nd generation AI?!?
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But "half of each parent" is the nature side - the physical creation of a new AI. Nurturing would be whatever involvement the "parents" might have in the development of the "child" after that.
The "really wonky stuff" in humans is far more likely when the parents are closely related, for technical reasons that might not apply at all to AIs.
I like to think that Melon is a savant, and she just hasn't found her area of profound intellect yet.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 30 May 2018, 08:54 ---I like to think that Melon is a savant, and she just hasn't found her area of profound intellect yet.
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Perhaps poker
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 30 May 2018, 10:06 ---
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 30 May 2018, 08:54 ---I like to think that Melon is a savant, and she just hasn't found her area of profound intellect yet.
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Perhaps poker
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Considering that she was eating the cards... I doubt it.
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