Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
Well we have already been informed of the Nano-fog which holds the personalities/memories of some of the early uplift pioneers.
I guess it does depend on how you define living beings. Though I do wonder what sort of result a Turing test would get on a x thousand year old personality.
A Turing test is worthless for proving sentience. We can actually build one of those now, provided that it is limited to text. We are rapidly approaching the point where it can pass on voice. There is no way that those systems are sentient.
Super conductors require a great deal of cold. Cold far in excess of what you’d get at a pole. Building a storage facility in the open, anywhere, opens it up to a great deal of risk. Puting it on the surface of a planet with intelligent (?) beings, weather, earth movements, and so on seems to me to be very risky. Would you put your data-center backup on the North or South Pole? Outdoors? In the open? Not me. Not a chance. Therefore, it was a calculated decision – there’s something going on we haven’t figured out yet.
I guess it does depend on how you define living beings. Though I do wonder what sort of result a Turing test would get on a x thousand year old personality.
CT
Ken
makes perfect sense to me
Ken
That’s the only thing that can ever be said with any certainty. 😉
🙂