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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6641767" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Hm! Reading more, I get the sense that my brain is kind of in the 'Earth is Cyberpunk' mindset, where you guys are more into the 'Earth is early Space-Opera.' </p><p></p><p>Which is totally cool. If the solar system is colonized and people are uploading their minds, then it means AI is almost certainly a thing that has been developed. </p><p></p><p>So we could say there's a distinction made perhaps, between the non-volitional 'expert systems' that are in common use, the far more complex 'volitional' or 'general' AIs that are the big mainframe type systems, and AI that lack the design elements that prevent them from becoming 'seed' AI, to borrow a phrase from Eclipse Phase. Seed AI is deemed a danger, due to its ability to recursively improve itself, threatening the formation of a nonhuman technological singularity. </p><p></p><p>Thus, my character was secret not because of illegality or public opinion, but just because this model of robot...utilizing state of the art robotics and brand new computer tech that allowed sufficient complexity of design on a mobile platform...was a military secret, and it's effectiveness would be compromised if word of it got around.</p><p></p><p>But then the AI software, perhaps in unexpected synergy with the new kind of computer, developed volitional abilities that weren't expected or designed for. In the process, it became a potential Seed AI, which is why the project was shut down so fast. And of course, the more my character showed signs of that type of activity, the more misgivings even its friends and allies had about continuing to shelter it.</p><p></p><p>Glass Eye, my thought is that my character would have contacted you electronically, and presented you with the story, along with a few items of evidence. The items of evidence were actually a sort of a puzzle, and a test, leading you along a trail of interactions and actions that were intended to determine your attitudes towards AI. My character initially pretended to be human, though dropped that pretense once it was satisfied that you were not hostile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6641767, member: 4936"] Hm! Reading more, I get the sense that my brain is kind of in the 'Earth is Cyberpunk' mindset, where you guys are more into the 'Earth is early Space-Opera.' Which is totally cool. If the solar system is colonized and people are uploading their minds, then it means AI is almost certainly a thing that has been developed. So we could say there's a distinction made perhaps, between the non-volitional 'expert systems' that are in common use, the far more complex 'volitional' or 'general' AIs that are the big mainframe type systems, and AI that lack the design elements that prevent them from becoming 'seed' AI, to borrow a phrase from Eclipse Phase. Seed AI is deemed a danger, due to its ability to recursively improve itself, threatening the formation of a nonhuman technological singularity. Thus, my character was secret not because of illegality or public opinion, but just because this model of robot...utilizing state of the art robotics and brand new computer tech that allowed sufficient complexity of design on a mobile platform...was a military secret, and it's effectiveness would be compromised if word of it got around. But then the AI software, perhaps in unexpected synergy with the new kind of computer, developed volitional abilities that weren't expected or designed for. In the process, it became a potential Seed AI, which is why the project was shut down so fast. And of course, the more my character showed signs of that type of activity, the more misgivings even its friends and allies had about continuing to shelter it. Glass Eye, my thought is that my character would have contacted you electronically, and presented you with the story, along with a few items of evidence. The items of evidence were actually a sort of a puzzle, and a test, leading you along a trail of interactions and actions that were intended to determine your attitudes towards AI. My character initially pretended to be human, though dropped that pretense once it was satisfied that you were not hostile. [/QUOTE]
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