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AI and Magic
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 15, 2018, 11:33:45 AM ---Im not sure how #1 factors in, since there are tons of magic-using entities that are not humans, bob being the ideal example.
Regarding #2, In terms of the DV, how do you define Created? Would creating a technological container for a Spirit count, or would you want a more ground-up genesis on the scale of like the Dragons creating the dragons?
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Key word here is SPIRIT.. A computer is nothing more than lines of code typed by people into a machine. It is not alive, has no spirit, no soul, and is not sentient. Any sentient's it display's is programmed to mimic sentient's without actually having it.
Lost Merlin:
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 15, 2018, 06:31:41 PM ---Key word here is SPIRIT.. A computer is nothing more than lines of code typed by people into a machine. It is not alive, has no spirit, no soul, and is not sentient. Any sentient's it display's is programmed to mimic sentient's without actually having it.
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You could argue that a 'named' coded personality (ala Jarvis and Friday) could have more to it then just 1 and 0's due to having a name in the DV.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Lost Merlin on May 15, 2018, 06:45:19 PM ---You could argue that a 'named' coded personality (ala Jarvis and Friday) could have more to it then just 1 and 0's due to having a name in the DV.
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Have Names been shown to give sentient's to anything in the DV?
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 15, 2018, 06:31:41 PM ---Key word here is SPIRIT.. A computer is nothing more than lines of code typed by people into a machine. It is not alive, has no spirit, no soul, and is not sentient. Any sentient's it display's is programmed to mimic sentient's without actually having it.
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In our world sure, but in our world there is no NeverNever full of spirits just itching for any connection to the Human World that might let them interact with it. Of the traits you listed, only a Spirit is needed for sentient AI, since the Soul is optional and "Alive" isnt really a useful descriptor in general.
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 15, 2018, 06:56:14 PM ---Have Names been shown to give sentient's to anything in the DV?
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We've seen where a toy marketing campaign was enough to create a new Monster, which is the same general process Im picturing here.
Ananda:
It’s funny you posted this. I had written and then deleted a post last month joking about this topic. Essentially, the “god” court and all minions are AI and the denarians infect via nanotechnology with the coin as a vector and power source.
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