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AI existence

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Cheetaur:
Thanks to all who precipitated in my poll.



I have wondered about this myself...since a lot of them seem to be individuals and not really fitting into a category. So I thought a poll might see what others thought. Left the last one as an explain, if you have another idea that i didn't think of (that's a good probability) I'd love to hear it. Thanks to all who participate.

Cheetaur 

alc40:
Do you mean the first AI in the QC universe or any/all of them that are now around?  If the former, it seems that the first AI was created by human researchers.  My guess for the reason would be a parallel with much of AI research in our world: to see if they could.

Is it cold in here?:
Jeph has hinted that it was partly accident and the researchers did not know why or how they succeeded. It was a strip where Winslow asked Hannelore the origin question.

Humans are like Tolkien's elves, always wanting to wake things up and talk to them. Whatever practical goal there was, I think the fundamental driver was to have someone to talk to. That ties in with the early and wide success of companion AIs.

Zebediah:
We created them because we could. Nobody bothered to ask if we should.

Tova:
Hannelore explained the origin of QC's AIs in comic 1506.

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