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Originally Posted by VonKatzen
I was mainly going at computer AI. AI may be entirely realistic built on other principles, I just don't think spinning plates and gears are the way to do it. If I thought AI was realistic through simple improvements in computer technology, and I thought computer technology was heading in that direction, then I'd be inclined to include it in a hard science fiction game. But in either case I believe it would be a very alien intelligence, unless it was simply a brain in a jar.
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Here we're in complete agreement.
The trouble with most uses of SAI in SF is that it tends to be 'human in a box' for story-telling purposes, which really doesn't make sense when examined closely. Nor does a society of equally-interacting, equal-status humans and AIs. It's one of those Cool tropes that falls apart when you really think about it.
I'm not sure even a 'human brain in a jar' would
stay psychologically human-like on an open-ended basis. I suspect his thought processes would begin to diverge from 'baseline' humans fairly quickly.