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WCDT Strips 3891 - 3895 (10-14 December 2018)
traroth:
--- Quote from: artag on 10 Dec 2018, 05:17 ---Well. Another comic, another assumption challenged.
Bubbles chose to become a soldier. I kind of assumed she was built for it.
So maybe the AIs are built / grown / whatever as minds, and then fitted to a suitable chassis to suit their intentions. I guess that fits with the general idea that swapping chassis is a fairly common thing. That makes them much more like a sentient being than a robot (which, I guess, they are), even though there seem to be differences in intellect between them : pint-size, melon, winthrop in one class, roko, bubbles, corpse-witch more advanced.
We don't know much about the AI's brain technology (or maybe multiple technologies). We do know they can be transferred, and it appears this is via data connection rather than a physical transplant but there might be issues of memory capacity or processing power.
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What intention could have a new born / built / grown IA?
DSL:
If an AI gets a new body by consciousness transfer (upload) rather than by physical brain-swap, is the AI in the new body the same as the AI in the old body? Or does the AI continue to exist in the old body (until it's wiped) while the AI in the new body thinks it's the original?
Has this topic been visited in re: QC in this forum? Either way, it's a trope of the more thoughtful science fiction, ranging from the 1950s stories about the man who kills his clone/robot copy because the copy thinks he's the original (but the story leaves in doubt which one's dead at the end) to the Star Trek fans who wonder the same thing about the Starfleet People Fax (aka the Transporter).
BenRG:
Both Winslow and Momo's transfer show that no remnant of the AI mind remains in a vacated chassis. In both cases, other AIs could not even find remnants of their system code in the drive.
This is at variance with how RL computer systems work. My guess is (warning technobabble ahead) that the AI drives use some form of storage and data transfer medium other than digital optical or magnetic storage. Possibly some kind of quantum data state where the data cannot be copied, only transferred as a single, integrated entity.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Dec 2018, 05:41 ---Both Winslow and Momo's transfer show that no remnant of the AI mind remains in a vacated chassis. In both cases, other AIs could not even find remnants of their system code in the drive.
This is at variance with how RL computer systems work. My guess is (warning technobabble ahead) that the AI drives use some form of storage and data transfer medium other than digital optical or magnetic storage. Possibly some kind of quantum data state where the data cannot be copied, only transferred as a single, integrated entity.
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This is exactly how digital minds are handled in the obscure 2006 anime Zegapain, which includes as a plot point the possibility of irreparable memory and personality damage if a glitch happens during the transfer. Quantum computers is their way of doing this, too.
Pablo360:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Dec 2018, 06:30 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Dec 2018, 05:41 ---Both Winslow and Momo's transfer show that no remnant of the AI mind remains in a vacated chassis. In both cases, other AIs could not even find remnants of their system code in the drive.
This is at variance with how RL computer systems work. My guess is (warning technobabble ahead) that the AI drives use some form of storage and data transfer medium other than digital optical or magnetic storage. Possibly some kind of quantum data state where the data cannot be copied, only transferred as a single, integrated entity.
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This is exactly how digital minds are handled in the obscure 2006 anime Zegapain, which includes as a plot point the possibility of irreparable memory and personality damage if a glitch happens during the transfer. Quantum computers is their way of doing this, too.
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That's what I was thinking, too — after all, if robots have sufficiently-complex brains, the no cloning theorem of quantum mechanics means that copying them while leaving the original intact is impossible.
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