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KD Since: May, 2009
2024-11-16 15:53:03

Some of this might fall under Ridiculously Human Robots for the broad scope of "Why are the robots speaking English to each other face-to-face instead of communicating near-instantly via Bluetooth?"

I must admit I'm a bit confused by what the question is, since it seems to be referring to highly intelligent AI, but also so dim that the two ad-bots in example 4 get stuck a pointless loop.

Mac_R (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-11-16 17:42:46

The idea I'm looking for isn't that the A.I.s are intelligent, but that they're mimicking humans perfectly, either to trick or entertain them. But that also means they'll waste power by staying Undercover When Alone, just in case some human happens to be watching them. So, a robot pretending to be a human selling something would have to say "in character" and try and sell it to other robots, otherwise, the human might realize something's wrong.

But, yeah, most of that seems to be covered by Ridiculously Human Robots.

Edited by Mac_R
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