No one has any issues with this?
Really?
Really?
Conscious Intelligence
- Thread starter MongooseMatt
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CSC, Computer Software.
Seems pretty okay to me. At TL-18 you're decently beyond the regular range of what most Travellers will know about.
Any CI that is encountered will not be something that will be easily comprehended by the characters, and if anything goes wrong with him it's unlikely that the travellers will be able to help.
If you wanted you could add disadvantages to their use like interface limitations, construction/storage requirements, reduced life spans and the threat of rampancy.
Or you could maybe leave those disadvantages for when CI's are being prototyped and constructed at Lower TL's.
Any CI that is encountered will not be something that will be easily comprehended by the characters, and if anything goes wrong with him it's unlikely that the travellers will be able to help.
If you wanted you could add disadvantages to their use like interface limitations, construction/storage requirements, reduced life spans and the threat of rampancy.
Or you could maybe leave those disadvantages for when CI's are being prototyped and constructed at Lower TL's.
-Daniel-
Emperor Mongoose
This is how I felt. Because of the TL needed, I figured it might be a fun one-off for an adventure or maybe an NPC's ship that shows up once in a while. But I was not worried about it for the most part because the TL deselected it out of the range of the PCs.Belisknar said:
Been mulling this one over - I think I will move it over to High Guard, where it will use the serious processing power of spacecraft computers...
I don't think a spacecraft level computer is absolutely necessary unless you're going to lower the TL, or outright make it a shipboard interface system.msprange said:
Moving it into High Technology though, might not be a bad idea. Looking at various Science Fiction out there. Conscious Intelligence haven't really needed starship scale computers to operate, in some they've been as small as to fit inside a Data Wafer. No doubt having a CI opperating a ship definitely makes things a lot easier for the crew and what kind of things will it be capable of when it has control of all the systems on board of a ship?
Also if you limit them to ships you limit the potential for fully Sapient Androids and the like.
-Daniel-
Emperor Mongoose
While I agree, I can see this being used more in ships than anywhere else, I am unsure I would move it and not leave an option for other uses. For example, I could see this being added to a house. Not just a smart house, but a smart and conscious house could be fun.msprange said:
Tenacious-Techhunter
Mongoose
I don't think any sort of traditional computer is a valid way to implement an artificial intelligence. Computers are inherently deterministic, and Free Will is inherently nondeterministic. It could be a module that attaches to a traditional computer, but it would essentially be an incredibly complex peripheral, much in the way that a GPU is.
Tenacious-Techhunter said:
Complex, yes. It needn't be large though. The human brain masses about 1300-1400g and is about the size of a large grapefruit. It houses about 100 billion neurons with an average size of 10 microns. These neurons form about 1 quadrillion synapses. There is no reason to assume that a TL18 chip fab couldn't shrink this a little bit more.
In fact, localized neuron clusters connected via high bandwith pathways should theoretically work remarkably well in simulating something roughly analogous to a brain. The incredibly complex peripheral could look a lot like this:
http://www.jamescamerononline.com/theCPU.jpg
