Another Robot Faction?

[Jinx]

the problem with AIs is that they try to imitate humans... the more advanced they are, the less one can distinguish them from humans, hence - there s no point RPing an AI, if it 100% imitates a human (including emotions, fears, aspirations )

personally - one of the BEST AIs i know of is the "bomb" in the rather old movie "black star".

this bomb talks like humans, - none of that beep stuff - but it is determined and logical. - the movie ends sort of with the crew actually "arguing" with the bomb about the purpose of life. - where it then turns out that the bomb has a very different view about the purpose of life.

it has a concept of "life" indeed, but while humans want to survive, - being a bomb.... it wants to blow up of course, not cause its eager to do so, but cause that is what it was made for. telling it NOT to blow up is like telling a human NOT to live. - thats where its logic of existance and self destruction clash, but the movie makes it clear that it has an understanding of the philosophy of living - and even understands the reasoning from the humans, - at the same time, the humans understand the bombs reasoning.

this is an AI that does only imitate humans to the point where both "beings" can actually meet. - it is not stuck in ridig logic being a bomb, it is just as stuck as humans.

it is a good example of what "intelligent" weapons can get to. - a weapon build to kill, a weapon build to destroy itself - but equipped with a real AI makes this bomb a lot more fearsome ... but at the same time sympathetic. it is not a "weapon" anymore, but its a protagonist - it gaines personality WITHOUT ever leaving its basic idea of being an AI.

such an AI is hard to RP on a game with such limited ways to express oneself. - for one, the movie evolves around this very philosophy of existance and purpose, for another, there are many rather subtle differences in human and AI behaviour that would simply get lost in a game like FL.



AIs like "I robot" aren t really too exciting, imo. - when an AI imiates humans - it becomes a human, for who can tell the difference between imitating emotions and genuine emotions.

another concept is the Star Wars idea. - droids have a real personality there, they are protagonists.... but the difference to humans is that they are replacable. - so they are not droids, cause they act like some, but they are droids, cause others react to them as droids.

an example is one of the "clone wars" episodes. - R2D2 gets lost in one of the episodes, and Aniken is asked to simply "replace" him. ( at that point R2D2 has already become a "him" instead of an "it" ) - for all but aniken, that appears to be a very normal behaviour and his ambition to rescue this droid is met with puzzlement.

so the droids in star wars ( at least hte ones that have a personality ) become droids not cause THEY act like them, but cause others REact to them as droids.

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