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How many AIs are there? What are the social consequences?
snubnose:
As a programmer, QCs AIs dont really make any sense at all to me. *shrug*
Tova:
Why would they?
flfederation:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 22 Oct 2020, 23:46 ---As a programmer, QCs AIs dont really make any sense at all to me.
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As a programming language author (not a great one or anything) I'm curious why not.
They're certainly not the sort of "AI" that developers are typically making use of right now, but as programming applications advance, marketers and PR firms are referring to everything as "AI" now. They're basically using it as a search-and-replace for "algorithms."
I think Jeph was up front about QC AI being made up based on hardware and quantum physics (complete with neutron-flow-polarity-reversing gibberish) and before machine learning proved to be extremely useful in real applications, there were some interesting arguments for hardware approaches simulating neurons. I'm a software person, not a hardware person, so maybe you're also more inclined to think of algorithms than physical designs.
As a Trek fan (I know, the TARDIS isn't Trek) I think Jeph's neutron polarity technobabble is pretty good. But IMO he could have also gotten away with "They're all based on Kryten." That's not technical justification, it's simply genre-based. But I would allow it, simply as a homage.
snubnose:
I dont doubt the technobabble or the storytelling.
Its just that QC robots make no sense for people who actually know how computer work.
QC robots are really just regular people, in artifical bodies.
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Oct 2020, 08:58 ---Its just that QC robots make no sense for people who actually know how computer work.
QC robots are really just regular people, in artifical bodies.
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Well, yeah. That's kind of the point.
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