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AI wonderings and discussion
tbodt:
I'm imagining something similar to an E-Ink display.
BenRG:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 24 Sep 2020, 03:38 ---I thought that they worked essentially the same way as a Cuttlefish's colour-change abilities: Electro-reactive red, blue and green pigments whose size is controlled by changes in the current through a micro-weave electrical mesh just beneath the top layer of the derma.
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So why is newly grown robot hair affected?
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It's a different material but essentially it's the same trick - pigment cells in the fibres either expand or contract based on the electrical current/frequency around the roots.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: tbodt on 24 Sep 2020, 20:58 ---I'm imagining something similar to an E-Ink display.
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I second that. Needs practically no energy to keep in its current state, and doesn't shine at night. And the kind of thing fancier chassis have, opposed to a cheaper and simpler single-color dermal cover.
Gnabberwocky:
We've seen the process of AI hair growth. They submerge their head in a pool of liquid until the fibers attach. Does the liquid contain the color cells, or are those stored elsewhere in the AI's body and move to the hair once it attaches?
By the way, you guys have great answers. I just never run out of questions.
N.N. Marf:
I'd want to know why they call themselves robots. It's a fairly recent coinage that comes from the Slavic (I think) root for labor or slave, and (outside Questionable Content) more correctly refers to machinery that does some work, like an assembly arm or the mechanical quadrupeds, rather than sapient machines.
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