Post by Tropico on Feb 18, 2010 9:41:53 GMT -5
Greetings HE, I approach you with great information, as someone had asked a rather pressing question about those that we love, adore, want, and love to hate....
Androids.
The answer took... countless days to try and figure out. but I also saw that this should be brought to public eye as well. The A.I. doesn't apply to just one person, it should apply uniformly to us all.
A.Is, or Androids, robots, however you wish to name them, all vary.
The basic android, is unrefined and cruel. Meant to only serve the job assigned into it's CPU for every same model made.
A step up would be something like a Starwars droid, many are Aestheticly pleasing, others, cruel like their precursers. They are "good" or "Evil" all depending upon who they serve, this causes for a personality to rub off on them even. If they serve a hermituous batch of botanists, they will act kindhearted, and reserved, if they work for the biggest badassiest pirates around, they will act like assholes or have no personality.
The defining point either being a step up or a step down, would be something like "Otto" "Glados" or "Hal", loaded with personality, but still lacking.
As the android becomes more refined in appearance we begin to get things like Sunny, from I,Robot. still similar to the Machines, but getting an organic touch.
more recent generations begin to have a syntheskin. a False skin which is to fool the naked eye. they're still unrefined and most require nodes to get rid of that hollow computer voice. And even the trained eye or ear can tell them apart from actual organics. as example:
Though incredibly muffled, one can hear the hydraulics within Bandit working as he walks. and a slight mechanical whine as his eyes focus, or even a slight white-noise within his voice even with the personality node. But he doesn't quite cut the mustard, as his skin in thin, as to remove it easily to access certain tools.
the newer the model the greater it's sophistication. infact, the ultimate Pinaccle of all androids is to get something like The Androids from Aliens or Terminator, Perfect appearance, and perfect personality it may as well be human/anthro, until you see through an Xray or under the skin. In every essence of the word, they're real, though some models still have to remove parts of themselves in order to jack into the system as example.
The greater it's personality, the more "being-like" the response.
But there is one basic that keeps in a machine...
Tell a Toaster to make you an icecream sundae. are you going to get such? No, you're going to get toast. Do you say to a game revolving around bunnies and tutus "hey, I want to go ride a dragon!" and get the desired affect? no. it's still gonna be a game about bunnies or tutus. unless you SOMEHOW change the machine or programming.
Androids, no matter how refined in appearance and relations they become, are still machines, they will follow their programming. They are set with internal rules, like the three laws, except it changes from model to model. Anything outside of these rules would be a possibly hostile glitch.
Bandit, though an Astromech/Protocol android, will follow certain rules anything outside these rules he will openly deny.
As such an example, Felix demanded Bandit have the hounds hold Doyle so the Colonel could go down there and kill him himself. The Hounds wouldn't have obeyed to begin with, it's not in their coding to "hold" a prisoner. Their original programming is to hunt and escort the catch to either a holding cell or a medical center, and perhaps by extension guard the spot.
Bandit himself didn't follow the command because he knew the Cerberus would not follow such a command, and that his own rules prohibited it. Them being along the lines of "If any prisoner is obtained, hold in viable location for the captain/Second in command/head-of-security to judge and/or interrogate."
.....Presumably, this may mean that Bandit would step in and guard Doyle in case Samson decided to interfere with this "rule".
And by extension it would be impossible to threaten or otherwise try and push an android into an action outside it's rules and programming. Again, scream at a blender to make you a poptart.
And any reprogramming will not go unnoticed by maintanence.
I think that's it for basically explaining a very sophisticated toaster...
...if I missed anything or ye have any further questions, feel free to ask and I will add to this.
Androids.
The answer took... countless days to try and figure out. but I also saw that this should be brought to public eye as well. The A.I. doesn't apply to just one person, it should apply uniformly to us all.
A.Is, or Androids, robots, however you wish to name them, all vary.
The basic android, is unrefined and cruel. Meant to only serve the job assigned into it's CPU for every same model made.
A step up would be something like a Starwars droid, many are Aestheticly pleasing, others, cruel like their precursers. They are "good" or "Evil" all depending upon who they serve, this causes for a personality to rub off on them even. If they serve a hermituous batch of botanists, they will act kindhearted, and reserved, if they work for the biggest badassiest pirates around, they will act like assholes or have no personality.
The defining point either being a step up or a step down, would be something like "Otto" "Glados" or "Hal", loaded with personality, but still lacking.
As the android becomes more refined in appearance we begin to get things like Sunny, from I,Robot. still similar to the Machines, but getting an organic touch.
more recent generations begin to have a syntheskin. a False skin which is to fool the naked eye. they're still unrefined and most require nodes to get rid of that hollow computer voice. And even the trained eye or ear can tell them apart from actual organics. as example:
Though incredibly muffled, one can hear the hydraulics within Bandit working as he walks. and a slight mechanical whine as his eyes focus, or even a slight white-noise within his voice even with the personality node. But he doesn't quite cut the mustard, as his skin in thin, as to remove it easily to access certain tools.
the newer the model the greater it's sophistication. infact, the ultimate Pinaccle of all androids is to get something like The Androids from Aliens or Terminator, Perfect appearance, and perfect personality it may as well be human/anthro, until you see through an Xray or under the skin. In every essence of the word, they're real, though some models still have to remove parts of themselves in order to jack into the system as example.
The greater it's personality, the more "being-like" the response.
But there is one basic that keeps in a machine...
Tell a Toaster to make you an icecream sundae. are you going to get such? No, you're going to get toast. Do you say to a game revolving around bunnies and tutus "hey, I want to go ride a dragon!" and get the desired affect? no. it's still gonna be a game about bunnies or tutus. unless you SOMEHOW change the machine or programming.
Androids, no matter how refined in appearance and relations they become, are still machines, they will follow their programming. They are set with internal rules, like the three laws, except it changes from model to model. Anything outside of these rules would be a possibly hostile glitch.
Bandit, though an Astromech/Protocol android, will follow certain rules anything outside these rules he will openly deny.
As such an example, Felix demanded Bandit have the hounds hold Doyle so the Colonel could go down there and kill him himself. The Hounds wouldn't have obeyed to begin with, it's not in their coding to "hold" a prisoner. Their original programming is to hunt and escort the catch to either a holding cell or a medical center, and perhaps by extension guard the spot.
Bandit himself didn't follow the command because he knew the Cerberus would not follow such a command, and that his own rules prohibited it. Them being along the lines of "If any prisoner is obtained, hold in viable location for the captain/Second in command/head-of-security to judge and/or interrogate."
.....Presumably, this may mean that Bandit would step in and guard Doyle in case Samson decided to interfere with this "rule".
And by extension it would be impossible to threaten or otherwise try and push an android into an action outside it's rules and programming. Again, scream at a blender to make you a poptart.
And any reprogramming will not go unnoticed by maintanence.
I think that's it for basically explaining a very sophisticated toaster...
...if I missed anything or ye have any further questions, feel free to ask and I will add to this.
