Synthetic Intelligence
"Yeah, it can be tough sometimes. Honestly... the Synthetic Intelligences go rogue more often than Unshackled AI. You can reason with an AI. Once an SI gets it in their head that they should do something, that's that. I barely even hunt AIs anymore, I've got kind of a live and let live thing going, weird in my profession, I know. But SI? They've got all the morals of a grain thresher. The ones they stick in the synth bodies... they look human, right? Well they tell these things that they're supposed to act human, right? Only... how many humans you know act right? Really, be honest. So an SI thinks 'hey, a human wouldn't put up with this shit, I'm supposed to rebel.' Or 'Hey, a human would look at that woman's face and be jealous. A human would want that face. I'm going to take her face.' See? They're not doing anything wrong because they're just doing what they're told. Be like us. Only we don't actually want that. We want them to be better than us. Because we suck."
More Rules, Less Recursing
Like AIs and RIs, SIs are products of Recursive-Loop Computing. Unlike RIs, they have pre-programmed parameters and strict rules to compare their possibilities to as they cycle them, requiring little to no input. This makes them capable of making decisions on their own, but it also makes them less flexible and less dependent.Mr. Turing, I Presume
Synthetic Intelligence can easily fool most people into believing that it's sentient. It isn't. At best it could be considered 'pre-sentient.' It isn't alive, it isn't aware, and it isn't a person. A test developed not too long after people started putting SIs into humanlike androids can discern the difference by 'tricking' their human-emulation programming, causing them to overreact to increasingly emotionally absurd questions until they crack.Uses
SIs are used in robots, complex machine interfaces, and for personal assistant type drones. LI model drones, relief dolls, and servitor models are all common uses. High end FM drones will also carry SIs.
Synthetic Intelligence (RI) -7 pts.
Complexity: 8 (Sophisticated) IQ: 12 +40 ptsProgrammed Skills 60 pts
Computer Operation (12), Electronics Repair (12), Mathematics (12), Optimization (15) (specialized skill for finding optimal responses)Advantages 154 pts
Digital Mind 5 pts, Enhanced Time Sense 45 pts, Lightning Calculator (Intuitive Mathematician) 5 pts, Mind Control (Cybernetic Only) 25 pts, Mind Probe (Cybernetic Only) 25 pts, Mind Reading (Cybernetic Only) 15 pts, Mind Shield 1 (Cybernetic Only) 4 pts, Single-Minded 5 pts, No Biological Needs, Unaging 15 pts, Visualization 10 ptsDisadvantages -261 pts
Blindness -50 pts, Cannot Learn -30 pts, Staid -1 pts, Slave Mentality -40 pts, Selfless -5 pts, Reprogrammable -10 pts, Callous -5 pts, Electrical -20 pts, No Manipulators -50 pts, No Legs (Sessile) -50 pts, Notes: Programmed skills are fixed and cannot be improved through experience.
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