Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 4006-4010 (20th-25th May, 2019)
Marco:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 24 May 2019, 01:23 ---On top of that, AIs in QC-verse seem to work at least in some ways like humans, mentally. It's entirely possible that whatever algorithm covers their data processing runs some kind of heuristic that removes unnecessary data. I mean, assuming at least a similar mental capacity to humans, retaining EVERYthing would be maddening. Humans don't process everything we perceive, so we effectively "forget" almost everything pretty much instantly. Maybe in QC-verse, consciousness fundamentally requires being selective and auto-deleting data. Otherwise, if AI worked more like traditional computers and kept most or all information in neat files, I'm not sure how they'd be able to process all that stuff without being completely alien beings, orders of magnitude more intelligent than humans. And most AI in the comic's cast seem to be human-comparable there?
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http://vigeland.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/funes%20borges.pdf
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 May 2019, 21:31 ---When I asked Jeph in some Q&A about whether robots feel pain, he said something very close to "No, they're computers", and definitely used the word "computers".
I forget when this was, and it matters, since Jeph has steadily upgraded the status of the synthetics in the strip. It might no longer be the appropriate term. I vaguely remember it was after Momo's upgrade but can't even be sure of that.
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For that matter, even without Jeph upgrading AIs' capabilities and rights over time (which, I do feel like the differences between Pintsize in QC #1 and the AIs in QC today can't just be explained by in-universe evolution, there's definitely some retconning going on to flesh out the AI backstory)... pain response is something that could very easily evolve over time.
Pain response is something that evolves as a protective strategy, and AIs have some advantages over humans in this regard (there's evidence in-universe that they can evolve their neural nets significantly faster than humans can).
I could actually believe that pain response wasn't known to exist in AIs even in a version of QC #1 that carries all of the retconning of the current universe, although I doubt it (considering this strip, drawn after the AI civil rights retcon and including its effects, but set before QC #1).
Now, though? I actually can't believe that pain response doesn't exist in the QC universe today, and we've actually seen proof that it can exist, right here. Sure, that arc isn't depicting a pain response, but it's depicting all of the senses and responses necessary for quite vivid pain responses. Roko may well be an outlier, but all it takes is one outlier to disprove a negative.
Theta9:
At least a hundred times, then? Jeez, how many partners has he had?
andrybak:
My favorite quote of Bubbles is her dialog with Steve in https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3059
--- Quote ---—How much do you bench?
—Is the bench reinforced?
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Gyrre:
Huhn.
Panel three makes me wonder if she'll show up to Tai and Dora's wedding. She would look good in a sleeveless black dress.
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