Artificial Intelligence
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TheEngineer
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Its still in playtest, but MJD already did a lot of good work
I have no information about the actual release date, but You may find additional hints on this product in other corners of this board.
Regards,
Mert
I have no information about the actual release date, but You may find additional hints on this product in other corners of this board.
Regards,
Mert
Straybow
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It might simply take a new chip architecture, OS, and programming metalanguage. If the virus can't translate its wacky sentience to the new platform, the problem disappears.
Can it be that hard to design incompatible architecture and OS? I think not. Granted the cost of revamping computer tech throughout an interstellar culture is going to be bankrupting.
Otherwise, who's to say the Virus can't overlay its personality on the organic circuitry? It's just a different architecture.
For that matter, any AI (or lesser processing system) that is hard-wired would be just as immune to Virus. It wouldn't be that hard to make hard-wired navigation processors, astrogation databases, combat vector and targetting processors, etc.
Can it be that hard to design incompatible architecture and OS? I think not. Granted the cost of revamping computer tech throughout an interstellar culture is going to be bankrupting.
Otherwise, who's to say the Virus can't overlay its personality on the organic circuitry? It's just a different architecture.
For that matter, any AI (or lesser processing system) that is hard-wired would be just as immune to Virus. It wouldn't be that hard to make hard-wired navigation processors, astrogation databases, combat vector and targetting processors, etc.
TheEngineer
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New architectures, OS, etc. will only stop Virus as long as he does not know these systems.
If Virus knows them, he will be able to adapt, in order to manipulate them or use them as new hosts.
He just writes a wrapper class
As Straybow, I see no reason for Virus not to be able to manipulate organic circuits. The functional level is important. The way to achieve functionality may be different.
I agree, that hardwired system are immune to Virus incarnations, even if they still could be manipulated (not in the sense of housing a Virus).
But they also may not be able to work in AI style/performance anymore, too.
Regards,
Mert
If Virus knows them, he will be able to adapt, in order to manipulate them or use them as new hosts.
He just writes a wrapper class
As Straybow, I see no reason for Virus not to be able to manipulate organic circuits. The functional level is important. The way to achieve functionality may be different.
I agree, that hardwired system are immune to Virus incarnations, even if they still could be manipulated (not in the sense of housing a Virus).
But they also may not be able to work in AI style/performance anymore, too.
Regards,
Mert
A borg ship is an intermediate step toward a living star ship. The Borg Ship is alive, basically a brain is grown from genetically tailored stem cells. These stem cells may have originally come from a human, but is genetically altered so that it grows structures specifically for ontrolling a star ship. This organic brain can learn to make jump calculations without any electronic or computer circuitry to help it, it can "see" and and "hear" through the ship's sensors just as a normal creature can through eyes and ears. The main difference between a Borg Ship and a normal spaceship is that it cannot be programmed, it must learn and be trained to be a starship through practice. Jumping through space and maneuvering are innate skills just as a child learns to walk on its own. The training covers mostly getting the ship to obey its masters, this is like training a horse to carry a rider. Later on a whole creature could be genetically engineered as a living starship, it can do everything a normal starship can do except download programs, it can also heal and produce offspring. Since genetic engineering is a big deal, only a few models may be available with no custom designing. You could have a Scout/Courier Living ship with built in Pulse lasers in its turrets. The creature would have no manual controlls, it would live on a diet of hydrogen and hydrocarbons and it would bear live young. Their would be chambers inside and an internal lifesupport system to support humans and other creatures inside. Perhaps a nook would exist where a manually operated weapons system might be placed, but it would have to run on a seperate control system than what came with the starship.
Straybow
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Well, if cells could be engineered to "grow structures specifically for controlling a star ship" what could be done to regular ol' homo sapiens sapiens? Wouldn't need computers at all. "Hey, Genetech, grow me a navigation lobe linked to my ship interface socket. I've got the CR200,000." No, I don't think that is remotely possible in Traveller tech.
