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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
TL9 AI isn't bad at perception and world-modeling tasks the way real AI has been.
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If we assume that a
UT-style Non-Volitional AI of IQ10 is sufficient for combat driving (and I'd be very concerned about its lack of initiative), or a Volitional AI of IQ8 (has initiative, but will sometimes use it in dumb ways - like the kind of recruit armies get when they're desperate for warm bodies, but would very much rather not have), we need a C7 computer, which at TL9 is a 400 pound mainframe costing $100,000. Frankly,. I'd prefer the warm body, as a soldier can get out of the tank and perform maintenance, ammo resupply, and all that. An AI driver can't, and presumably with all this AI the only crew member is a commander and they're already managing the gunnery AI (and probably assorted dumb drones/recon robots), they don't need to be baby-sitting an idiot driver as well.
At TL10, when an IQ10 Volitional AI only needs a microframe, it's a different story.
And real-world AI looks to be worse than that - I'm not convinced it's a TL9 technology (and
UT doesn't seem to actually give a TL for AI, so more than most stuff in
UT it's setting-dependant).