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Old 01-01-2023, 07:02 AM   #14
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Default Re: Damage From an Evil Vending Machine

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Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
Are they really IQ 20?
The VendiPax are a subset of Pax Machina, a distributed AI. In the Reclamation Project setting any networked computer or any device that qualifies as "smart" has been co-opted by Pax, which was created when the world's military computers got mixed with an online advertising virus. So the IQ 20 is legit, but Pax is rarely sane enough to get much use out of its superintelligence.
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