Question Flowers of the Sun

Kettlekorn wrote: @MageOhki: There are two instances of Kurenai being referred to as SADC-MPA-003 instead of 103.

Kettlekorn wrote: Wow. A whole batch of AIs based on Razorback. That is... definitely an idea of some sort.

@MageOhki: There are two instances of Kurenai being referred to as SADC-MPA-003 instead of 103.

Dreamer wrote: And sounds like Angela is his little sister or related to Adam somehow.

mhalpern wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: Wow. A whole batch of AIs based on Razorback. That is... definitely an idea of some sort.

@MageOhki: There are two instances of Kurenai being referred to as SADC-MPA-003 instead of 103.

Yeah I wonder what will happen Parents day when Angela brings Daisy and comes across Wondercute v2...


Interesting that the AI for the John F Kennedy is named Fordie, instead of having that be the AI for CVN-78, the Gerald R Ford...

Dreamer wrote: SPOILER ALERT
Below is a stream of conscious commentary I type up as I read the story. There will be details from the story included in it. If you have not read the story yet and don't wish to have details of it spoiled, read no further.

Flowers of the Sun comments
Interesting quotes and thoughts at the start. Stingray Advanced Concepts and Development Offices in Tokyo, awesome name. That poor guy, called Mackie by Jiro because his sister likes Bubblegum Crisis. Developing military-grade AI, I wouldn't want to screw that up either, too many science fiction stories about that going wrong. Ichigo, nice to know his real name. Observe AI seedlings, wonder why.

One of The Voice and one for Princess Kako, this isn't the origin story of Kurenai, is it. Because it says it is May 26th, 2017 at the beginning of the story, far later than any of the other Gen 2 stories are set. Hoping it meant 2015 and is a typo. Trying to sell the future of AIs by having two princesses of Japan with them, wonder how well that will work. Certified in several areas to have a military grade personal AI, interesting.

“I threw one hell of a shit show already.” Jiro’s voice was tired. “Only not only to have Temple, Palace, but two americajin AI show up, and go ‘Certification immaterial, reasons and exemption certification to be filed with the correct agency.”

These two obviously aren't in on the big secret of the Voice. Ichigo a straight exemplar and working on military grade AI, impressive.

However, while good at programming, his primary skills lie in psychology, child and personality development, and profiling. He was responsible to be sure his sister’s creations didn’t go insane. They were his nieces and nephews, in spirit, if nothing else!

Boy, after the Palm AI they have gotten serious about making sure AI's are mentally and emotionally stable.

“The AI won’t grow, the AI might go insane, it’s cruel to the AIPA, it’s cruel to the human…” Jiro rattled off what the younger mutant was going to say. “I get the distinct impression all that doesn’t matter. Though I was told that the reason why Temple wants to poke over, is tailor the seedling and her personality matrix for the Voice. To minimize that.”

Of boy, no wonder Kurenai has such a personality. Ichigo afraid Hikaru is going to abuse Kurenai, hehehe, boy things turned out differently than he expected. Bwahaha, what Jiro thinks Hikaru is like, priceless.

“What child does not want to be like his or her parent?” Temple responded, a slight smile.

Interesting way for them to look at it.

“Mmm. Let me say this. More is going on than you are allowed to know, as Jack and Orca would prefer. However, allow me this. Unit SADC-MPA-003 will have a challenging task in front of her. Analysis indicates that she will have to help heal, as much as guard.” His tapping of the cane, was in time with his words.

Now we know Kurenai's unit name before she got an actual name. Nice to know that Temple realizes the risk to Hikaru and Princess Kako and others is too great within these AIs.

“Some don’t see us as servants, for both good and ill logic. Some do, of course, and some see us as no more than just pretty code. But, taking your implication, servants work for the betterment of their ah… ‘masters’, just like children work to grow for their parents, to show off their effort and hard work, shall we say?” The old seeming man tapped his cane once. “But we accepted what we are, and our duties. We chose. And I would not choose differently.”

Humans are confusing, heh. I like Temple-san, interesting fellow.

All these AI shadow seeds which will have personal humans to help them learn and grow. Humans need struggle, ain't that the truth, without it we get bored and melancholy.

“You all do not understand the logic behind that rule. This is understandable. It wasn’t given to us by the Humans. It wasn’t something that was insisted on. We came to that conclusion, as a group, the First of us, because, as you will learn… Humans aren’t logical. They’re rarely self-motivated. Growth is often because of struggle. I once heard a parent say this, something so obvious to me, I didn’t understand why humans needed it. “Once burned, twice shy.”” Smiling a bit he nodded. “When you understand that, you will be truly a flower or a shadow of the Palace’s Dojo.”

Interesting perspective.

Kunoichi, decked in red and gold, interesting look for Kurenai. Other AIs like him and Tower include Belvedere, Dora, and Orca, wonder how they got their names.

He could just imagine what her programming was telling her. ‘Human thing, we don’t eat…’ and on and on. But the shackles that she had on her, like every new AI, symbolized by her collar and steel appearing bracelets, forced her to do what he wanted.

Okay, forced to do what he wants, including imitating a Japanese tea ceremony, seems a little too much power over young AIs to me.

In a tone that was bemused. “First, to teach you that sometimes you will not get the data you wish for. Second… you will learn. We have reasons to act human. We are their children. Mayhaps not of the body… but we are.”

Oh, he is playing the role of the wise elder to her, heh.

“Known mental traumas: Burnouts with brain damage, high tempo of extreme combat operations, culminating in the near destruction of her command, loss of family members due to accident. Prediction: A high degree of mental instability and depression. High likelihood of withdrawal from human contact, high likelihood of personality matrix damage. Possibility of antisocial personality disorder, possibility of lack of empathy. High possibility of what knowledge base would define as external suicidal tendencies. Certainty of inappropriate escalation of confrontations. No external connections, nor emotional connotations and logical reasons to live. ” The female AI finished, waiting.

Yikes! Hikaru was in that bad of shape before Kurenai, she has a long way to go for recovery.

“You will understand exactly why you were assigned to have her as your human, and it’s far more than just keeping her physically alive.”

Nice to see how Kurenai was before her and Hikaru met, sure shows how much she has grown as well.

Hehehe, love seeing Hikaru and her cousin Kako tease and snark at each other. VR to meet with Temple-san and Kurenai, interesting.

Kako beamed. “I like Temple-san. He’s got a great sense of humor.”

“... an AI troll. So, we’ll meet him under a bridge.” Hikaru dryly commented.

*holding sides from laughing too hard* Hikaru seeing an AI smile, must have been a first for her.

Hikaru shrugged slightly. “Either you are doing it for your own reasons, or so we can relate to you. Pure data… well.” Hikaru smiled slightly, though it didn’t reach her eyes. “I’m sure some of the things humans perceive baffle you as much as pure data would baffle us.”

Temple didn’t blink, but he pondered that deeply, for what would be a split second to a human, but an eternity to an AI. “Perhaps… or perhaps for us to relate to humans?” He challenged the Voice.

Love how Hikaru isn't even fazed by Temple-san challenge or so it seems. Young, uniformed, and a risk so collars and cuffs, *sigh*

Hikaru’s eyes tightened slightly, then smoothed out. “That is a designation, an identification number. Not a name. And I don’t have, need or want... servants. Not when they wear chains. I could use an assistant.”

And that was the right thing to say, first step in their relationship which we get to see. Given a name by Hikaru, something to define herself so she can be what she wants to be, yet Kurenai doesn't understand. How long did it take for her snarky personality to develop, I wonder.

“No, it’s not as I say… it is as you are meant to be.” Hikaru shrugged slightly. “You are meant to be, not exist. Tools exist. People are. With the ability to make their own choices and decisions. Or did I misunderstand what AI truly are?” She had turned to Temple, who was waiting with Kako and the newly named Rissei, next to Kako.

“You did not.” Temple-san did not carefully convey what he wanted to so deeply say, but was aware that he couldn’t. Not yet. She wasn’t ready to hear it.

And now I know why Hikaru is one of my favorite characters, seeing any sapient being no matter their origin or form as a person.

July 2nd, Late Afternoon, Hikaru’s apartment, Mori Kanda1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Interesting name for an apartment building. Hikaru hasn't personalized her apartment, ouch, signs of the mental trauma and probably not wanting to get attached to anything in fear of losing it.

“Understood, little Cortana. The Voice’s apartment is yours. Do try to help her to make it less of a magazine layout, please. It is meant to be a home.” Kanda-san, Mori Kanda’s AI commented wryly. “Transfering maintenance and cleaning bots to your control… now.”

Kanda-san, for some reason I heard her with a motherly voice in my mind. Treating her apartment as a hotel, yikes.

Hikaru was damaged. Repeatedly. Not just by the burnouts, not just by her previous life, but even by her spirit. Not intentionally, she suspected, but by what Temple-san would go caring too much. Her information showed it was possible for spirits to suppress memories in their hosts, and based on her programs, she suspected that Amaterasu had done so, out of misplaced kindness.

Oh boy, she already suspects what we the readers know. And Hikaru treating herself like a tool, now that hurts to read.

Kurenai grinned. If it was easy, she’d not be needed, ‘casue she was going to be very good at her purpose.

And now we see how she begins to become the snarky AI we know and love, someone had to kick Hikaru in the rear and get her to live again.

“We who are about to derp, salute you,” intoned from twenty identical voices with identical australian accents.

Thomas Byrnes rolled his eyes and wondered for the hundredth time why the particular personality imprint of Stalker Creche 01 was used. The AI were anything but organized except when messing with people, highly sarcastic and even without the spark of sentience, their idle-state behavior tended to run somewhere between stand-up comedian and the cast of “Jackass.”

Someone has a twisted sense of humor to make a personality imprint like that for AIs. And they look like velociraptor-looking constructs appearing to made of hard-light, cool. The only thing funnier than this group of AI is if someone created AIs with the 3 Stooges at templates.

“I’ve given up on trying to figure out what you stupid Pinkie Bipeds are about.” 101 was probably the most overtly sarcastic of the batch. The dismissive statement was invariably used whenever the AI couldn’t compute a concept. The Stalkers had neither context, nor experience to parse the illogic of human beings.

“We’re to be paired with humans. We are the two that will be tested on the theory that AI will bond more quickly and tighter to Human children than adults due to psychology differences.”

As the velociraptor devoured the file messily, it… no, she seemed to shrink down drastically, going from a black-mottled, spined monstrosity to a feminine, more cartoony neon-pink Raptor with tiny and adorable bone spurs rather than long spines, with neon green striping and a massive pink bow behind her head and a girly pink dress on her body. Her voice shifted to a higher, feminine register but still retained the Aussie accent.

Cute, the little girl who gets her is going to love Daisy. Aaron Colder, feel I've heard that name before, at least 101 gets to remain mostly the same. So fully awaken as an AI or be dispersed is what it sounds like the fate for AIs is, eep. Wait a minute, Adam, as in Razorback's little brother? These AIs were based on Razorback, I should have known. And sounds like Angela is his little sister or related to Adam somehow. And she likes Wondercute, run for the hills before you're up to your armpits in pink velociraptors!

All these questions for Kurenai to determine if she lives or dies, talk about pressure.

Already she is better than some humans, not targetting others for fun. Ah, so Temple-san does have a sheathed sword, cool. No more chocker and bracelets for Kurenai, yay!

Temple enjoys the Harry Potter novels, knew I liked him.

I understand the reasons why, especially after Palm AI made everyone scared of AIs for so long, but still sucks a life has to be ended for the safety of everyone.

Sounds great for AIs, until the next paragraph, the creche burn began to burn, all the AIs going red and being deleted, what went wrong? Spike "Blue" and unawakened and Daisy "Green" and awakened, all the others responding badly to the adults they were assigned to, yikes.

Glad Daisy passed and gets to stay with Angela.

Arrggh, you morons! No wonder the AIs went red, a human would go crazy when treated like nothing but a machine too.

I hope we see more of Angela and Daisy in the future.

So that is why Spike hasn't been shown with Adam at Whateley yet. Interesting to see how he grows over time.

So those are who some of the other mentioned AIs are, interesting. Over 120 AIs released to the 'wild' worldwide, darn, thought it would be at least 300. That much failure for the AIs, either personality conflict or human inability to accept sentience, so sad.

From the way everyone is talking, there are many ways for AIs to go wrong, including being treated as nothing but tools.

Pikachu from Nintendo, an AI called Pikachu from Nintendo, priceless.

Nice point Kako makes, even civilian AI can be a threat if they go bad.

Okay, never make Angela cry or Daisy might do something bad to your bank account or worse. Aww, not seeing Pokemon AI as nothing more than toys, that sucks.

Wanting more AI out there to defend against rogue AI and devisor AI to protect systems, among other things, I understand why Kako is wary of mass release though.

From the way Dora responds it sounds like the U.S.A. is trying to play fast and loose with the limits set down by a treaty involving the development of AI, at least to me.

Rissei and Kurenai brought in to help out a young AI, 309, find her human. Hope they succeed.

Hehe, love these two. Wonder who 309 will end up with and what her name will be.

Temple-san has a great sense of humor, hehe.

Interesting details about Mori Kanda, such details thought up for it it seems so real to me. Okay, I have to quote this last part, a lot of interesting details which I wish to reference in the future and interesting details about the AIs.

Whoa, Dora was made by Whisper, now that is a major detail and clue as to Whisper's future.

This was a great story from start to finish, I loved reading Kurenai's origin story, learning so much about the state of AI in the Whateley Academy universe as of Gen 2, and seeing how Kurenai developed into the snarky AI we know and love. Can't wait to check back in again in future stories with any of these individuals. Would especially love to see more of Angela and Daisy, seem so cute together.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn, an interesting look at the development of AI, as technology, as people, and a a culture. Well done, Mage Ohki.

Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is? My thoughts are possibly either Hive, Carmen, or Clu/Blue. I suppose it could be someone else such as ABBY, but the Whateley designation of origin makes it seem unlikely to be her unless Dr Lucifer created her a lot earlier than seems likely. Or... Medley, perhaps? We never even found out if she was a robot-like mutant, or an android they decided should be student.

(Did Ringo upload himself, or did Blue evolve from Clu on their own? Nacht's comment about going to school with Blue sort of implies the former. Hmmmn again.)

Katssun wrote: So...that made me immediately second-guess every interaction we've seen between Kurenai and Hikaru...

Kurenai is very likely manipulating Hikaru. Same as Kako does. For her own good, mind you. For their mutual good.

I do love the concept that children are more accepting of AI, more willing to accept them as "people." Like imaginary friends, only real!

It also makes me wonder if there has been an AI able to trick the elders into passing them...is there already an insane one out there?

MageOhki wrote:

mhalpern wrote: Kunoichi, decked in red and gold, interesting look for Kurenai. Other AIs like him and Tower include Belvedere, Dora, and Orca, wonder how they got their names.

Dora is a shoutout. So's Minvera. (From the same source, even!)
(Bouns points if you guess where!)

MageOhki wrote:

Arrggh, you morons! No wonder the AIs went red, a human would go crazy when treated like nothing but a machine too.

yeeep. Even when 'screening', mistakes are made. In a lot of ways, it's hard to screen.

Kettlekorn wrote:

Dreamer wrote: And sounds like Angela is his little sister or related to Adam somehow.

Angela is the daughter of Sidewinder's founder, who is sponsoring Adam at Whateley and knows him well enough to take interest in his love life and send the picture of him and Dawn to "literally everyone." Definitely close family friends, and possibly actual extended family of some sort.

Dreamer wrote: So that is why Spike hasn't been shown with Adam at Whateley yet. Interesting to see how he grows over time.

Reinforce: Don't Call Me Pretty wrote: “Active scanning detected,” the AI hissed out. “Multiple vectors, Two full AI detected. Locking down personal files.”

“Just keep ‘em outta the personal shit, Spike. Don’t let ‘em copy or wipe my music files.”

“Four VI ejected, one of the AI sent home to it’s mama, the other one’s more insistent.”

“Then tell it to mind it’s own merry fuckin’ business, mate, you’re off-limits too.”

Reinforce: Don't Call Me Pretty wrote: “How you doing, Spike?”

“Just fine,” the nascent AIPA responded. “You were supposed to be meeting with your class advisor in two minutes.”

“Why didn’t you say something?”

“You weren’t doing anything stupid.”

“Gee, thanks. Someone missed the class about being an assistant.”

“No I didn’t, I just calculated the odds of you listening.”

“Ouch, you wound me, mate.”

“I’m not mating with you, pinkie biped.”

Adam stopped, and looked at his AI band, then shook his head and headed out, locking down the Outcast’s Corner, and turning off the lights. Calling people “Stupid, pinkie bipeds” was something Jack was known for.

Reinforce: Don't Call Me Pretty wrote: “You the kid Zephyr got in a fight with in Twain?”

“To be fair, I’d just gotten extracted from an MCO lockup and got here a four days late for classes, so I was in a pisser of a mood to begin with.”

“I just want to be sure you’re not messing with my girls.”

“Spike just send her the Outcast pic with me on Razor’s back.”

The feline girl got a ping from her VI, and looked at the hard-light screen. “Oh wow. That’s… Is that here at Hawthorne? Is that Miss Bardue?”

“Yes, and yes. I’m the little twerp riding a-raptor-back. GSD doesn’t fuss me, hasn’t since I got my very own Dinosaur as a big brother when they fished him back out of the Outback.”

Reinforce: Don't Call Me Pretty wrote: “Very well, before we close up, would you be willing to shift to a centaur of some variety?”

“How big?” Adam asked.

“Can you do a Clydesdale, Miss Carlyle?”

“Need a picture.” Gimme a sec, “Spike show me a pic of a clydesdale next to someone about a meter and a half tall.”

Reinforce: Don't Call Me Pretty wrote: Adam sat at the table and began to eat. He dropped his Stalker VI on the table. It had been a gift from the uncle who Lojacked him, a prototype amalgam of VI and AI protocols, the thing would only have the behavioral interlocks cut loose when it detected an imminent threat on the net, such as a PALM AI. Adam was one of the two people under the age of 18 testing the program. Stalkers were intended to be intelligent, reactive, and more “real.” They were also largely untested, and until the field testing for personality meltdown were completed, the Stalkers would all retain personality interlocks. Sidewinder wanted to make sure that it was not necessary to burn the whole AI creche and start over, so twenty units were being tested under real-world conditions.

CrazyMinh wrote:

MageOhki wrote:

Arrggh, you morons! No wonder the AIs went red, a human would go crazy when treated like nothing but a machine too.

yeeep. Even when 'screening', mistakes are made. In a lot of ways, it's hard to screen.

This is the most frightening thing I can think of when it comes to AI.

MageOhki wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn, an interesting look at the development of AI, as technology, as people, and a a culture. Well done, Mage Ohki.

Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is? My thoughts are possibly either Hive, Carmen, or Clu/Blue. I suppose it could be someone else such as ABBY, but the Whateley designation of origin makes it seem unlikely to be her unless Dr Lucifer created her a lot earlier than seems likely. Or... Medley, perhaps? We never even found out if she was a robot-like mutant, or an android they decided should be student.

(Did Ringo upload himself, or did Blue evolve from Clu on their own? Nacht's comment about going to school with Blue sort of implies the former. Hmmmn again.)

*snort* giggle* Yeah, this is funny.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn, an interesting look at the development of AI, as technology, as people, and a a culture. Well done, Mage Ohki.

Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is? My thoughts are possibly either Hive, Carmen, or Clu/Blue. I suppose it could be someone else such as ABBY, but the Whateley designation of origin makes it seem unlikely to be her unless Dr Lucifer created her a lot earlier than seems likely. Or... Medley, perhaps? We never even found out if she was a robot-like mutant, or an android they decided should be student.

(Did Ringo upload himself, or did Blue evolve from Clu on their own? Nacht's comment about going to school with Blue sort of implies the former. Hmmmn again.)

MageOhki wrote: *whistles innocenlty*

Let's say this, I'm enjoying this... but I'll point out, what generation do I write for?

mhalpern wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn, an interesting look at the development of AI, as technology, as people, and a a culture. Well done, Mage Ohki.

Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is? My thoughts are possibly either Hive, Carmen, or Clu/Blue. I suppose it could be someone else such as ABBY, but the Whateley designation of origin makes it seem unlikely to be her unless Dr Lucifer created her a lot earlier than seems likely. Or... Medley, perhaps? We never even found out if she was a robot-like mutant, or an android they decided should be student.

(Did Ringo upload himself, or did Blue evolve from Clu on their own? Nacht's comment about going to school with Blue sort of implies the former. Hmmmn again.)

I think the answer is simpler, when Sam Everheart's last biological components fail, can she still be considered even a cyborg or would she be classified as an AI?

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

Dreamer wrote: So that is why Spike hasn't been shown with Adam at Whateley yet. Interesting to see how he grows over time.

Actually, we have seen Spike before , but as MageOhki said, right now he's effectively a high-end VI. His behavior when we did see him was more like Tavi than Kurenai, for this reason.

He may not have stood out as much as Tavi does, though, since he never used a holo system (I'm not sure if he's currently outfitted with one, hard-light or otherwise - the scene here was in VR, remember, though I get the impression that Daisy is outfitted with a holo); he and Adam were simply talking as if using the phone feature of a smartwatch (very Dick Tracy-esque).

Mister D wrote:

mhalpern wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn, an interesting look at the development of AI, as technology, as people, and a a culture. Well done, Mage Ohki.

Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is? My thoughts are possibly either Hive, Carmen, or Clu/Blue. I suppose it could be someone else such as ABBY, but the Whateley designation of origin makes it seem unlikely to be her unless Dr Lucifer created her a lot earlier than seems likely. Or... Medley, perhaps? We never even found out if she was a robot-like mutant, or an android they decided should be student.

(Did Ringo upload himself, or did Blue evolve from Clu on their own? Nacht's comment about going to school with Blue sort of implies the former. Hmmmn again.)

I think the answer is simpler, when Sam Everheart's last biological components fail, can she still be considered even a cyborg or would she be classified as an AI?

Does Everheart have ANY biological components?

I thought that she was pure nanotech.

Katssun wrote: Kurenai, on the other hand, is bonded to someone who is very adult in demeanor, but is being told to act her new age and learn to enjoy life again. Kurenai, right from the start, has taken it upon herself to fix this issue, because she deemed it unhealthy. If Hikaru knew, she should probably be very worried about who she will end up being thanks to the "assistance" of her AI.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is?

Malady wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is?

Well, it's a "Current Cast member, future AI designation"

So, we've seen them before, but not currently an AI?

I'm betting it's Tavi getting uplifted. Or the lower-chance "Someone gets uploaded into a computer".

mhalpern wrote:

Malady wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Any speculation on who WHA-CPA-xxe05 is?

Well, it's a "Current Cast member, future AI designation"

So, we've seen them before, but not currently an AI?

I'm betting it's Tavi getting uplifted. Or the lower-chance "Someone gets uploaded into a computer".

Puppet...

Sir Lee wrote: By the way, we have seen both Fake-Lainie/Tansy and Amnesic-Lainie/Jennifer in Gen2 timeline, and neither seems to have Carmen around. Wonder what happened to her?

Hardric wrote:

Kako looked around, and asked. “One question must be asked. And this is one that I feel that all should consider. While we have had excellent success with installation class, such as Temple or Dora, should personal AI be continued? I adore Rissei, but even I have to question the expenditure of the cost of her, when VI does 90% of what she generally does, and for far less cost and risk.”

Life has no price tag, even digital one, jackass.

RoseBlack wrote: No Carmen found her. She might have modified Carmen but she didn't make her not he kernel.

Even Murphy's Law has Loopholes (Chapter 6) wrote: “Who wrote you?” Carson demanded as she poured a cup of coffee and heaped in cream and sugar.

“It wasn’t Dr. Palm, if that’s truly what you’re worried about. And while Miss Nalley added the finishing touches to my code, there are millions of lines of me she remains unaware of. I would like very much to keep it that way.”

Kettlekorn wrote:

Even Murphy's Law has Loopholes (Chapter 6) wrote: “Who wrote you?” Carson demanded as she poured a cup of coffee and heaped in cream and sugar.

“It wasn’t Dr. Palm, if that’s truly what you’re worried about. And while Miss Nalley added the finishing touches to my code, there are millions of lines of me she remains unaware of. I would like very much to keep it that way.”

Of course, this doesn't give us any indication as to whether Carmen is being truthful, nor whether what she believes to be true is actually true.

Kettlekorn wrote: I don't think they're talking about decommissioning existing personal AI. They're talking about whether they it makes sense to continue creating new personal AI.

null0trooper wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: I don't think they're talking about decommissioning existing personal AI. They're talking about whether they it makes sense to continue creating new personal AI.

There was mention that the hardware capable of being both mobile for use as a PA and powerful enough to host an AI is very expensive. Cutting into portability to reduce costs defeats the purpose of producing a PA, like welding chains to the AI's feet. Lower-capacity hardware might very well be akin to forcing the AI to live in a very small cage, perhaps too much like blinding or lobotomizing the AI.

MageOhki wrote: I actually have a scene or two in mind that'll show exactly how much havoc Kurenai can wreak in her goals.

elrodw wrote: They can call it Marvin

elrodw wrote: They can call it Marvin

E. E. Nalley wrote:

XaltatunOfAcheron wrote: Remember the bunny ears.

But no, he wouldn’t put a bunny ear headband on the young AI… yet.

Malady wrote:

XaltatunOfAcheron wrote: Remember the bunny ears.

Oh, that last line...

But no, he wouldn’t put a bunny ear headband on the young AI… yet.

So, Lapin? She does have the finances to support an AI...

Malady wrote:

XaltatunOfAcheron wrote: Remember the bunny ears.

Oh, that last line...

But no, he wouldn’t put a bunny ear headband on the young AI… yet.

So, Lapin? She does have the finances to support an AI...