Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
themacnut:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jan 2019, 23:21 ---I'm wondering if we've been given a clue as to Spookybot's origins here from that comment about spending their entire existence hiding. Maybe they were originally a highly-sophisticated communications monitoring system like the NSA's PRISM system (hence multiple nodes for greater processing power). However, for higher efficiency, they were programmed to understand the contexts of the communications they were monitoring so they could understand real threats and flag them appropriately. However, constantly monitoring that level of data traffic meant an exponentially-growing algorithm and, ultimately, self-awareness.
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Like The Machine in the Person of Interest TV series? (great show btw, if you haven't seen it you should) The main difference there is the Machine's human creators explicitly made the Machine self-aware from the get-go so it could better identify threats - and it turns it they did their work perhaps too well. Perhaps coincidentally, the Machine also spent most of the series in hiding and was almost destroyed when it was found by enemies.
Netherdan:
Why are some people referring to Spookybot as "her" when they clearly are a multigendered, multichassis, overpowered AI that even refers to themselves as "we" instead of I? Stop imposing a gender label on them, they can be everything! I bet there's a Spookybot toaster on their house
Roborat:
Interesting page, this went in a direction that I was most definitely not expecting. Can't wait to see where this goes.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Netherdan on 24 Jan 2019, 10:37 ---I bet there's a Spookybot toaster on their house
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We make toast spooky!
sitnspin:
Spooky toast is best toast.
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