so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
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ReplyDeleteI refuse to call these 'clues', or even 'breadcrumbs'. They're bits and pieces of a story of Obsidius.
ReplyDeleteSo, it seems this latest Intel all but confirms that Obsidius was a sensitive. It appears increasingly unlikely that he was a simulacrum, at least at this point in the story. Seems like an interesting character....
ReplyDeleteIt seems that it doesn't require being simulacrum to leave breadcrumbs, only to be XM sensitive. Hopefully the Niantic researchers and sensitives left /something/ in the portal network before they lost their memories.
ReplyDeleteI doubt he can blend in with the Germanic tribes as they look vastly different from the people of the Mediterranean.
"I suspect that the offshoot sect will be much more effective in subverting the empire from within." --> Christianity?
Could the narrator be Publius Quinctilius Varus? He served the Romans in Judea and then in Germany. [Edit. No. The dates for Titus are too late. Sorry! lol.]
ReplyDeleteYik Sheng Lee True. I merely meant that he is definitely a sensitive. At this point in the narrative at least, if he is also a simulacrum he doesn't seem aware of it. He ascribes his proficiency as an exploratore and speculatore to skill and experience. I just don't see evidence, yet, to suggest that he is a simulacrum. Of course, as the conclusion of Abaddon demonstrated, simulacrum are capable of not beif aware of their condition. Perhaps ignorance of their nature as simulacra is the norm and those such as Hank Johnson who are successful in informing their future recursions are the rare exceptions
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