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Do AI in Questionable Content design and assemble their own offspring?

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BenRG:
Regarding the question in the thread title, I would argue that the fact that the Singularity has happened demands that this be the case. What remains unknown is exactly how this happens.

My personal favourite idea is that it actually is a pseudo-biological process. We know that when two Synthetics have their analogue of sex, they network their systems together. I assume that, normally, firewalls are in place to stop too much data merging between the two processes. However, if both participants bring down their fire-walls, their intelligence algorithms splice together, generating a third algorithm that contains aspects of both donors.

What happens next is the analogue of pregnancy. The 'child' algorithm remains on the 'mother's AI drive in a protected partition but able to access all the sensory input from the chassis. This is the equivalent of being in the VR crèche for factory-compiled AIs and is where the algorithm gets to acquire and process sufficient data to emerge into full consciousness. Once this process is complete (a process of a few months, likely), it is uploaded into a chassis. The result is an AI with a very immature personality (think of May, or early Winslow) that is actually the direct offspring of two other intelligences.

Why this idea interests me is Spookybot's jak headset. It should be at least theoretically possible to use that to merge a human's brainwave patterns with an AI algorithm in the same way as two mating AIs would. The resulting AI child would then have elements of a human's intelligence patterns too, a neurological hybrid of human and machine. Trans-human, if you will. As the modern humanoid chassis tend to have pseudo-biological elements, a true human-machine hybrid is at least theoretical possibility from this process.

fayelovesbubbles:
Uh...AIs have offspring?

ToodleLew:
<Courtroom_voice mode="Perry Mason">

Your honor, I object. The question assumes facts not in evidence ("AIs have offspring", "AIs mate, or otherwise combine to produce offspring", etc.), and calls for speculation from the witness.

I suggest that, if my learned opponents desire to establish the point, that they call Jeph Jacques, or his proxy, to the stand as an expert witness.
</Courtroom_voice>

Neko_Ali:

--- 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.

Mr_Rose:
From what I can tell, Canon is that the first true AI emerged from a specific combination of hardware and software, some of which may have been developmental or even experimental, and may have even been intentional.
The first was, however, an isolated case for some time until the examt circumstances to trigger AI development in that specific setup were determined. From there, equivalent setups with less expensive hardware were discovered and eventually commodified.
Until the Singularity, no-one actually understood why the specific combinations worked to create sapience, instead of simple sentience or even just basic responsiveness, and the new knowledge may now be being applied to human sapience.

As for robotics, I imagine that the whole planet was just a few years ahead of us with companies like Boston Dynamics beginning to commercialise products rather than still developing them as is the case in our reality.
In turn one of the AI research teams probably got ahold of one, rigged an interface for their pet mind, and quickly determined that the rapid learning and intuitive reasoning of the AI combined incredibly well with the dynamic environmental awareness of the robot body.
After that, well, people have wanted robot butlers for centuries, and now here they were; potentially at least. The initial commercial success was probably limited because the AIs couldn’t not have personality and the type of person who wants to be the first to own a mechanical slave for the sake of showing off is seldom the type to tolerate backtalk from their “property”…
Still, by the time the idea of the companion matching service gained traction, the cost of the hardware had come down to mass-market band, and the idea of having an AI as a sort of pseudo-pet, rather than a disappointingly wilful minion, became popular.

Which is how Marten and Pintsize came to be associated, just a little while before the strip starts…

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