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AlexanderHowl · 01-11-2019, 03:14 AM

Anyway, this assumes that SAI is software rather than hardware. If SAI are a product of hardware rather than software, than a SAI could take just as long as a biological entity to get functional through methods such as deep learning. From our current work on digital intelligence, even a LAI might require time and training to learn how to learn.

If SAI and LAI take time to learn how to learn, then the production advantage of droids goes out the window. Programs augment rather than replace their capabilities and, at best, give them a bonus to default. Of course, that means that Chip Slots probably would not exist, as people could not pop in a program to mimic a skill (which was an absurd idea for physical skills like Karate anyway).

01-11-2019, 03:14 AM	#36
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Clone Army Or Droid Army? Anyway, this assumes that SAI is software rather than hardware. If SAI are a product of hardware rather than software, than a SAI could take just as long as a biological entity to get functional through methods such as deep learning. From our current work on digital intelligence, even a LAI might require time and training to learn how to learn. If SAI and LAI take time to learn how to learn, then the production advantage of droids goes out the window. Programs augment rather than replace their capabilities and, at best, give them a bonus to default. Of course, that means that Chip Slots probably would not exist, as people could not pop in a program to mimic a skill (which was an absurd idea for physical skills like Karate anyway).