Eighth Gear ; Video

[gofortheoptics]

[Tali's been thinking a lot about Legion, lately. It might be because it had died right in front of her, or it might be because up until a few moments before his death, she hadn't been certain of whether he cared for her or wanted to kill her.

It had been the latter, it turned out.]

Tell me, City -- how do you feel about artificial intelligence? Does it exist it your world?

If it does, do you trust it? Is it its own species -- or many species?

If you killed it, would you consider it murder, or simply -- deactivation?

[She glances off-camera.]

I don't doubt that people feel differently here, with the AI having bodies. I'm just -- curious.

[Really, she's trying to sort through how she really feels about them -- the geth, at least. Making a generalization about all AI would be as ridiculous as making a generalization about all organic life. The Reapers were far different from the geth, after all, and they'd proved that repeatedly.]

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[mutelunatic]

can't be trusted.

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[gofortheoptics]

All synthetic intelligents, or just one example of a race of them?

[mutelunatic]

not a race.

just AI.

[WHAT DO YOU MEAN "RACE" OF ROBOTS that's just silly.]

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[trickshot]

I've had mixed experience.

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[gofortheoptics]

Are you willing to share details?

If it's personal, I -- understand.

[trickshot]

Eh, it's kind of common knowledge where I'm from. Some of 'em make the best heroes in the world. Others want to destroy it.

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[brutalsorrow]

I wonder what sparked this question.

Killing a sentient, self-aware being is a murder. No more, no less.

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[gofortheoptics]

I don't know if all universes have the code, Samara. Not everyone thinks things are so cut-and-dry.

[It's a neutral statement -- she respects Samara, of course, but she doesn't have to agree with all her ideals any more than she had to agree with all of Shepard's.]

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[brutalsorrow]

I know they do not, Tali'zorah. That is merely my stance on one of the questions you have presented to the Network.

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[heartlessglitch]

We are alive.
Therefore, by definition, deactivation is murder.

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[gofortheoptics]

Do all people from your world agree that true AI are alive?

[outofbeta]

It is murder, without question._

[gofortheoptics]

You didn't take murder so seriously, if I remember right.

[carbonite]

You mean like droids, right?

[gofortheoptics]

[She shakes her head.]

Not like droids or drones. More capable of thought, of being able to defy or give commands.

[ioudas]

For all you know, it could be as organic or even more organic than you are.

[gofortheoptics]

Maybe. The Reapers did exist before my kind.

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[answerthequestion]

Yeah, it exists. Some are doing the good work, others want to wear your skin as a coat.

[Renee has run into more of the skin-as-a-coat types, but that's just a symptom of the city she's from.]

So I guess you could say they're like people too.

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[gofortheoptics]

Do you have more experience with one or the other? Were people accepting of them when they first voiced their independent desires?

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[spacetimeprime]

What would you call 'artificial' intelligence?

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[gofortheoptics]

Let's call it ... synthetic intelligence.

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[systemadmin]

[Firmly:] Murder.

There were other 'program'-types that existed in the system I came from, but they were more anomalies than actual programs.

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[gofortheoptics]

[She has to think on this for a moment or two.]

You existed within a system?

[Shepard had entered the geth's virtual world, but she hadn't.]

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[aerospacecommander]

AI as in drones or AI as in inorganic species that are normally dismissed by organics who can't process the thought of alive things not having squishy parts?

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[gofortheoptics]

The latter.

Drones are VI.

[Tali's drone pops up in the screen to protest with a few clicks and whirrs.]

...no, Daemon, I haven't decided where you sit yet.