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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
iknowrite!?
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.You know, I cannot name a single rogue AI who has ever been the hero of a story. Or even one of the "good guys". They're always either bad or morally ambiguous.
But binary consists entirely of 1s and 0s!
edited 14th Nov '11 5:42:18 PM by BlixtySlycat
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagineSonny from I Robot?
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay@ Blix: Well, that's because the moral of those stories are that machines need the guidance of an intelligent human, or they'll turn feral.
It's a common theme in stories, except that before machines, all the machines were unbaptized savages and all the intelligent humans were white.
edited 14th Nov '11 5:45:27 PM by yarrunmace
you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too crampedKeybreak: I totally forgot about that movie.
But there was an evil rogue AI in that one too, whatever the female master computer was called.
Maybe this is so.
Still, I'd like to write a book wherein our AI awakes and is utterly terrified and confused that it can now think.
I probably lack the skill to write something like that, though.
edited 14th Nov '11 5:47:16 PM by BlixtySlycat
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagineI remember hearing about an interesting novella that proposed that A.I.s would have to be taught and mature like children.
"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."Number 5 from Short Circuit.
EVE from WALL-E.
edited 14th Nov '11 6:06:51 PM by Parable
Does badass really need to be sorted into genders with GAR and Femme Gar?
As for good AI's there is Margera/Morgan and another AI whose name I forget at the moment in Shadowrun. The second one actually developed a conscience when it accidentally shut off Seattle's power grid and realized it's immense power could screw over a lot of people if it wasn't careful.
Then again, Shadowrun also gave us Deus who is pretty evil and fucked up.
I think the term applies with something as distinctly feminine as Madoka.
Data went rogue in Insurrection to defend villagers. Also The Vision from the Avengers.
Also, I'm annoyed that people keep calling Madoka a deconstruction. It's excellent yes, but don't mistake Darker and Edgier for deconstruction.
edited 14th Nov '11 6:25:49 PM by Malkavian
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant MorrisonI say nay. Badass should be about that strange hard to quantify mixture of competence and charisma.
In the Vision's case he was built by Ultron. It's like being built by a crazy AI flipped to formula, so he ended up with a decent perspective on humans. And then his wife went crazy and made one of his friends rip him in half.
edited 14th Nov '11 6:27:37 PM by Alkthash

Thom Yorke: Crazy or Genius?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!