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RelFexive · 07-10-2006, 01:43 PM

Any sentient entity (or at least those modelled on humans) will probably fear death, however well backed up it may be. It still has to cease existing, after all, and that's never fun.

At the THS stage of development, I don't think SAIs (and Ghosts) are that different from the fleshies. One is an intelligence whose functioning is based on the intelligence of a human mind, the other is an emulation of the same. So they are, after a fashion, limited by the intellect of their creators. They'll still think pretty much like a human, even if they're a software version of one, even if they are as 'artificial' as SAIs.

True 'alien thinking' AIs might come from two possible sources: AIs designed by other AIs to explore their limits, and emergent NAIs or LAIs. The first case is the classic sci-fi route to great machine intelligences like the Culture's Minds; the second could produce free-thinking intelligences that don't think quite as we do, being more computer-y than SAIs, which could lead to all kinds of problems.

07-10-2006, 01:43 PM	#9
RelFexive Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Somewhere Left Of Sensible	Re: All-infomorph campaigns? Any sentient entity (or at least those modelled on humans) will probably fear death, however well backed up it may be. It still has to cease existing, after all, and that's never fun. At the THS stage of development, I don't think SAIs (and Ghosts) are that different from the fleshies. One is an intelligence whose functioning is based on the intelligence of a human mind, the other is an emulation of the same. So they are, after a fashion, limited by the intellect of their creators. They'll still think pretty much like a human, even if they're a software version of one, even if they are as 'artificial' as SAIs. True 'alien thinking' AIs might come from two possible sources: AIs designed by other AIs to explore their limits, and emergent NAIs or LAIs. The first case is the classic sci-fi route to great machine intelligences like the Culture's Minds; the second could produce free-thinking intelligences that don't think quite as we do, being more computer-y than SAIs, which could lead to all kinds of problems. __________________ "My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training." "Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."