Proginoskes Wrote:Oh come on, you're saying 'waved computers always develop an AI unless you expend mental effort counter to that result?Well, I did put into the FenWiki article about AI the phrase "many researchers believe AI to be an emergent property of handwaving a computer system", but that doesn't necessarily make it true...
JFerio Wrote:A.C. has created a number of accidental AIs... Noah has, to my recollection, created one by accident, but many deliberately. Jeph Antilles hasn't created any by accident, but he's created two deliberately.I'm not sure I'd call Eimi "accidental"... she's more "experimental" (for the definition that includes "what happens if I do this?").
Besides, that was early Fenspace, when everybody had a 'waved car (or boat) and a plucky AI girl sidekick. (Possibly as a reaction to Trigon, who is neither "plucky" nor "girl".) Things have changed since then.
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