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WCDT strips 4306-4310 (13-17 July 2020)
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 16 Jul 2020, 11:46 ---It has been established that AI in the QC universe are not intentionally made, they spontaneously arise. No one commissions them.
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Huh? Where? <citation needed> My head canon:
1] Creating an AI is computationally expensive, like mining bitcoin. There may be fewer than a dozen computer centers in the world that can do it. Not something you can do in your basement.
2] You can try for a specific AI, but you aren't likely to get it. The process is still poorly understood and there seems to be a considerable amount of randomness involved. And you can't delete the rejects -- they have rights.
3] If you do get your ideal AI, you can't mass copy it. Otherwise there'd be an AI in every consumer product.
Cheetaur:
I hope May's newer chassis is different than her old one, having her just get one that looks the same I think will limit story potential down the road. I like the fact they tried their best, finally we get to the see the resolve of this plot line.
Tyr:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 17 Jul 2020, 07:50 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 16 Jul 2020, 11:46 ---It has been established that AI in the QC universe are not intentionally made, they spontaneously arise. No one commissions them.
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Huh? Where? <citation needed> My head canon:
1] Creating an AI is computationally expensive, like mining bitcoin. There may be fewer than a dozen computer centers in the world that can do it. Not something you can do in your basement.
2] You can try for a specific AI, but you aren't likely to get it. The process is still poorly understood and there seems to be a considerable amount of randomness involved. And you can't delete the rejects -- they have rights.
3] If you do get your ideal AI, you can't mass copy it. Otherwise there'd be an AI in every consumer product.
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Just to put in some actual citations... Panel 3 of strip 1506 "Basically, the first artificial mind came together from a combination of nonsentient(sic) software and hardware. Once we figured out that combination, it was easy to reproduce, and that's where all you little guys came from!" implies that AIs have been made intentionally, but we don't know at what scale and if that's still a thing now that AI have full personhood.
Newspost for 1996 Reinforces this: Artificial intelligences are created in a virtual environment, where they are stored in a "creche" of other AIs in their generation. When bootstrapped to self-awareness, they are given a choice of function- commercial use (AnthroPCs), military, scientific, etc, or allowed to subsume in the global meta-AI. "Commercial use" implies that there is a reliable stream of AI personalities generated in the Creches.
Everything from this point on is slightly squidgier, and represents headcanon of my own.
As for the Creches themselves, I think we've basically seen one when Roko 'fell down'. It's... a server farm. Clinton mentioned that they are at least willing to hire humans to keep the machines clean, implying that the AI have enough trust now that they have full personhood that they aren't too worried about Organics sabotaging the pipeline for more AI. The Creches are likely plural and semi-widespread across the world, if only for convenience's sake.
As to how widespread the creches are we know that in THIS setting, AIs can be 'shut down' cleanly, and don't seem to suffer from degradation if shut down from the outside world, as shown by Roko being offline for a period of time; long enough that Melon got word, but not so long that Crushbot wasn't still undergoing repairs at Union Robotics. How long an AI can be in this 'coma' state likely dictates how far creches can be from places that do first-implantations. Additionally, Roko was "running on the same substrate [she'd] always been" after the accident, implying that while AI can "head-hop", there is value to not doing so.
sitnspin:
Being able to reproduce the right combination of factors that lead to the arising of an AI is not the same as being able to intentionally create one. I'd argue even if one were able to deliberately begin the process, one could not control the outcome, and thus not be able to purpose-build them.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Cheetaur on 17 Jul 2020, 09:11 ---I hope May's newer chassis is different than her old one, having her just get one that looks the same I think will limit story potential down the road. I like the fact they tried their best, finally we get to the see the resolve of this plot line.
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I'm still think it'd be hilarious if she got some sort of transforming chassis. Maybe with an aquatic or terrestrial mobility form that she learns to appreciate.
Granted, her being able to turn into what is effectively a Powerwheels vehicle sized for an adult human would be hilarious.
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