AI, Robots and You

As promised I am releasing another blog post. This time it is on my topic. If you are wondering what my topic is, it is anything that has to do with my writing. Everything else is Off-Topic.

Anyways, I promised that I would share a bit more information about my five hundred year future world. This topic, AI, Robots and You!

With the rapid pace of technology we are bound to develop some sort of artificial intelligence. It is only a matter of time.

Now. Why would the people of the future need some sort of artificial intelligence?

Cause it makes life so much easier. Let's take a look at how they would have colonized Mars. While right now we haven't even stepped foot on Mars, in the future they will have to have build a pre-made colony to stick on the Martian surface BEFORE they even step foot on it. They will not survive for very long if they have to built it themselves.

That is like throwing an astronaut into orbit without a working space suite.

So robots will have built the first Martian Colony for the human colonists. With Robots existing in 2020 AD, why not in 2492 AD?

You are right, there are Robots in 2492AD. Here are some of the types.

Bot- A bot is anything from a simple machine working in a factory or a complex drilling machine capable of drilling through the ice on Europa. They have many shapes and sizes depending on the task that they are built for. The main features is is possesses an Automation Intelligence and that it doesn't look like a human. Bots are everywhere doing a multitude of tasks. They seem to disappear into the background and most people don't see them. They can be quite 'stupid' at times as they can only do the tasks that are in there programing.

Android- An Android is a Bot that looks like a human. Everything from skin, to hair. It possesses an Automation Intelligence. They are banned in most stations in the system as there main trade is the sex-trade. There are some 'Gender-Neutral' Androids available from a couple corporations, but they are high in price and only the rich use them as tutors or maids. Sometimes they also replace menial labour positions on highly-classified or highly-secured job sites.

AI- True AI does not exist. There have been many attempts on making true AI, but all have failed. Some miserably with lots of pretty explosions and screaming. Most failures included screaming of some sort. True AI means that the AI will continuously learn. Most AI attempts ended when they realized that there was no need for the dumb humans or that we were too stupid to fend for ourselves.

Three Rules of Robotics- The Three Rules of Robotics were easy to circumvent by the AI in most attempts. As such, those three rules also does not exist in this future.

Automation Intelligence- It is the next best thing to true AI. Without the pretty explosions or the screaming. Sorry. Automation Intelligence is an almost artificial intelligence. It is Artificial Intelligence that is incapable of learning. Any learning is done when a Robotist re-programs the Bot to do a different task.
A bot will be given a Automation Intelligence score between zero and ten. Zero being dumb as a brick and ten being a hop and a skip from being a true AI. Bots with a score over 8 are usually shut down and scaled back. Or destroyed, whatever is easier.

What does this mean to ships? Will ships get an AI like the TV show Andromeda?

No. Ships will not have individual personalities. They will possess an Automation Intelligence to help run the many systems, but are in capable of being a true AI.

Cyborgs- A cyborg is a human with machine parts. The dictionary says that it is a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device. With that definition in mind, many war amps could be called pseudo-cyborgs themselves.
In 2492 AD, Cyborgs will be a social group of people. They are a group of people who will go out to put implants, artificial limbs, and such on themselves when none is needed before. A cyborg is also a person who chooses, either by financial or social reasons to have a lost body part replaced by a machine part instead of cloning a new part.
A war-amp-cyborg is usually an outcast of the cyborgs as it is the cheap way out. Replacing the lost body part with a machine costs seven to ten times LESS, then having a licensed cloning lab regrow the lost part. Plus it only takes two to three days to fit the body part, while regrowing the body part can take weeks depending on what part is needed to be replaced.

Cloning- I mentioned cloning, but that is a rather large topic for another time.

That is all that I time for tonight. I'd love to say more, but it will have to wait.

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