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The Background, Part 12

Aileana Noels

Scientist, and companion of Ishara. Part of the second wave of immortals, her life was extended by Dumuzi due to her scientific achievements.

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Jasmine Crane

Current Head of IT for the Wells Hotel Corporation

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The Background, Part 12

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by admin on February 16, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Day 15, In the Month of New Leaves, 6564
Characters: Aileana Noels, Jasmine Crane
└ Tags: Aileana Noels, Jasmine Crane

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    Slamlander
    February 16, 2018, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Hmmmm, This will be a problem with Clarence an Edgar? Or, are the Shining Minds androids using that Josephsen technology?

    Interesting thought: Neural Net implemented via Josephsen Junctions, almost as interesting as a Neural Net implemented with quantum nodes (not qu-bits)

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      admin
      February 16, 2018, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      EDGAR and the Shining Minds units are using Josephson models (The ‘Uni’ piece is the clue-in)

      Besides that, it’s EDGAR. EDGAR is an honest-to-god celebrity. Known, and loved. And EDGAR would be embarrassed as hell if he ever really found out 😉

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    Rens
    February 16, 2018, 5:27 am | # | Reply

    I get her perspective, I really do, but there’s still some serious worry factor in that she’s essentially enslaved a trio of sentient entities. Yes, she created them, but still…

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      James Roden
      February 16, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      What she’s using is a much more advanced version of
      https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331144-500-ai-learns-to-write-its-own-code-by-stealing-from-other-programs/

      There is no sentience there, and Jazz would look at anyone who implied that there was as if they were an idiot. Jazz didn’t build three sentient beings. She NEVER would.

      All of her safeguards on them were put together so another thing like The Towers could never accidentally arise. So sentience will never arise. Let’s be clear, she generally hates AI’s. She doesn’t trust them one goddamn bit. The only ones she’ll give a fair shake to are the units like EDGAR (they’re metal people as far as she’s concerned) But anything else? They are the equivalent of purpose-built devices. They are more sophisticated toasters, that’s it.

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        Slamlander
        February 18, 2018, 10:28 am | # | Reply

        Many are confuse between sentience and sapience. Sapience is an encyclopedia. sentience provides the will to use it. Expert systems, like what Jazz as described here, are not sentient regardless of how sapient they are.

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    Versatek6
    February 16, 2018, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if her power source is air gapped?

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      James Roden
      February 16, 2018, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      Power is done off a closed system that is not connected to any grid and is provided by a set of dedicated solar panels. And the system does not connect to anything else.

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