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WCDT strips 3606-3910 (31st December 2018 to 4th January 2019)
Tyr:
--- Quote from: brasca on 30 Dec 2018, 19:58 ---That's definitely a possibility unless it was already donated to help AIs without chassis. If not I'm sure Momo wouldn't mind since Roko should be able to do her charity work without much difficulty, but I'm not sure about baking. It would be like having the Pillsbury Doughboy around. Cute mascot, but I don't think she'd be able to do much else at the Secret Bakery.
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She would still be able to learn from training, and original flavour Momo was capable of helping to make tacos.
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 31 Dec 2018, 00:37 ---(Wait, 2048? Who releases a line of 3*683 androids?)
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Presumably Two-Zero-Four-Nine was made Special in her own unique way, not as a controller, but as a console for the Melon Network.
traroth:
If you have memory space to store 2049 of them, you have space to store 4096...
BenRG:
I already like Lemon. She's sweet, kind and friendly whilst still having the bumbling social uncertainties that makes her instantly relatable to me.
It looks like Roko was hurt pretty badly, based on Lemon's description of her chassis. It's quite likely that she's running on an emergency system of some sort whilst her chassis is either repaired or replaced. Question: Is she in the AI equivalent of a medically-induced coma? :-o
Oddly enough, I think that this is the closest we're likely to get to seeing what May went through in Robot Jail - totally cut off from external input in a featureless mindspace that others can only access by jacking into the system on which the drive is running. I think that Robot Jail may have had a virtual environment but I think it's unlikely they'd have had the time to set one up for Roko yet; she's probably only just been rebooted.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 31 Dec 2018, 01:27 ---Question: Is she in the AI equivalent of a medically-induced coma? :-o
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I'm assuming her body is destroyed (dead, I guess) and AIs have relatively physically robust memory cores (I vaguely remember the comic establishing something like that?) that house their personalities and memories. I wouldn't say it's the equivalent of a coma because human consciousness and yes, even brains are inseparably linked to our bodies. My understanding is that AI consciousness can work independently of a body, so Roko is probably hooked up to a network or something like that?
If I remember the technical aspects of AI in QC-verse wrong, I'll be happy to be corrected.
Tyr:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 31 Dec 2018, 02:12 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 31 Dec 2018, 01:27 ---Question: Is she in the AI equivalent of a medically-induced coma? :-o
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I'm assuming her body is destroyed (dead, I guess) and AIs have relatively physically robust memory cores (I vaguely remember the comic establishing something like that?) that house their personalities and memories. I wouldn't say it's the equivalent of a coma because human consciousness and yes, even brains are inseparably linked to our bodies. My understanding is that AI consciousness can work independently of a body, so Roko is probably hooked up to a network or something like that?
If I remember the technical aspects of AI in QC-verse wrong, I'll be happy to be corrected.
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The Robot Fight Club members have what are described as 'triple-reinforced AI drives'. which may or may not be standard issue (if it was standard issue, wouldn't it just be 'AI drives are reinforced'?)
as for what Roko is experiencing, I imagine it's a variation on the 'invocation creche' Clinton mentioned here. a pared back system to keep the intelligent mind from going insane without input while Roko is repaired. Alternatively, she's in the Medical Creche so she can give informed consent as to how professionals should care for her, e.g. should they just install her into a a new body or would she prefer they repair the old body, fix what can be fixed and she'll live with the results because damaged or not, it's HER body?
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