Ah, finally. A few of you figured it out over the last couple pages; I’m sure it would have come as a surprise if you were reading the comic straight through.
For those who don’t remember, in the mid 21st century it was discovered that all artificial intelligences go insane. The smarter they are, the faster they become unstable. It seems to be an inherent flaw in any machine-based intelligence. Fumiaki certainly stayed stable for longer than he should have…maybe he’ll shed some light on what’s wrong with the A.I. mind. That is, if Jacob doesn’t just kill him.
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Fumiaki: YAAAH!
Dahnai: Let him go!
Jacob: Roger, what did you see?
Roger: I saw...something...something mechanical in his head.
Dahnai: That's his brain, damn you. Tatsu knew that humanity needed to be smarter to survive. But all artificial intelligences went crazy. So he hatched a plan to make a stable A.I. -- by making it think it was human.
Dahnai: Let him go!
Jacob: Roger, what did you see?
Roger: I saw...something...something mechanical in his head.
Dahnai: That's his brain, damn you. Tatsu knew that humanity needed to be smarter to survive. But all artificial intelligences went crazy. So he hatched a plan to make a stable A.I. -- by making it think it was human.
So, what keeps humans from going insane isn’t that evolution fine-tuned them over the course of millions of years so that they don’t do anything to sabotage their inclusive genetic fitness; it’s that they (correctly) think they’re humans?
Prioception, pain impulses, and all that are kinda significant. Disembodied AIs don’t need anything and don’t feel anything – why wouldn’t they troll our world like a giant video game?
But if your body needs feeding, needs being not beaten up – oh hi, consequences! …and hopefully responsibility. We will see…
I, at least, didn’t saw that coming! 😀
Wow, ok, I was VERY wrong. I was thinking a clone of some sort; which I guess the body may technically be, but the AI thing… I definitely did not see that coming. Nice!
Like Gin, I figured a clone.
‘What keeps humans from going insane?’ I would say not a hell of a lot. Fumiaki is not playing with a full deck. He just hasn’t been suicidal like most A.I.s…
Now, this would be a good time for a reasonable, logical discussion, pointing out that if he’s stayed sane(ish) so far, there’s no reason to go crazy just because you’ve discovered your whole life is a lie, and what is Human anyway?
But where’s the fun in that?
Yeah, I was surprised.
In the words of internet memes, HORY SHET.
@Jerden: I suspect Fumiaki2 knew he was an AI already, judging by his fear and panic at being put under the X-Ray, plus Dahnai saying the plan so blatantly right in front of him. Dahnai’s blurt may just be panic though.
I wonder, what caused the AI to experience apparently crippling pain when put under X-Ray radiation?
AI and sociopath savages lack empathy…watch videos of coyotes expelling their mother and father from the pack or youtubes of Syrians butchering each others yelling “Allahakbar”…then read about this police dog in Denver attacking his racist handler because he was beating severely a black woman for jaywalking…Consider the behavior difference between that of a boar and a domestic pig…Or a wild buffalo and a domestic cow…Humans did invent “civilization” to change the conduct of humans and animals but you may teach it to wild humans or animals but Artificial Intelligence learn nothing that was not put there in the first place…”Garbage in = garbage out”…
So what happened to Fumiaki numero uno?
I really feel sorry for the ai/fumiaki if he didn’t know what he was. It would be horrible to have all your beliefs about your very self torn apart like that.
Pish posh, auto-pilots and wild animals/sociopaths dont have
beliefs, they have data…This is pure anthropomorphism…
logical as time travel!
AI…”The smarter they are, the faster they become unstable. It seems to be an inherent flaw in any machine-based intelligence.”
Could it be an explanation of the Syrian-Iraqi-Persia going ons…This is the cradle of “civilization”…are we all going to turn into Assad/ISI???
Oh hey, first time posting here. What a twist, he was a cyborg the whole time and his crazy world-reshaping ideas have no higher logic than random insanity. I’m sort of wondering whether Fumiaki stayed, if not sane than at least functional, purely because he was under the impression he was human, or because his skull also contains part of a human brain and they’re working in tandem.
Ming, it would seem some animals have some beliefs about themselves. Elepants, dolphins, and apes, when presented with a mirror tend to notice marks on their bodies inconsistant with what could be called their “self image”.
Due to prehensile hands and excellent kidneys(getting thus long life), humans could develop intelligence but most of the living is done on the emotional level and there, many domestic animals are superior to humans as in sensing right from wrong, empathy, etc…so a horse or a dog know what you think or the heroics of the fighting dogs,or guard dogs, similar to the “Ave Cesar, Morituri te salutant…” not encountered too often with humans, the majority being cowards(we are monkeys, after all).
See:”Adam’s Task, Calling Animals by Name” by Vicky Hearne.
An AI could be made to mimic empathy but it would have what we mock politicians with “TIN EARS”, it would “sense” everything wrong…having both feet in his mouth all the time…as we can see here…Jake being mad for a reason!
Told ya he was reshaping brains. Looks like he was a planner after all.
So, survival is a function of intelligence, eh? I’d better tell the cockroaches and tardigrades. Seems to me that if you make humanity smarter, its greatest threat gets smarter, too.
“I’m…I’m not a real boy? So THAT’S why I dream of electric sheep!”
Daisuke Ido was a human whose brain was replaced by a bio chip. when he learned of this fact he cut his skull open to see the truth with his own eyes. he then erased his memories because he could not live with this fact. the other characters in battle angel alita who learned that they suffered this fate, went through much longer and more complex reactions, usually involving insanity and lack of morals. except for one woman who was speechless for a moment and then just pissed at the central computer system for stealing her brain. they all seem to be in a similar state to fumuki here, and he wasn’t stable to begin with
On the other hand, brain size mean nothing, shrews are very smart animals yet have a minuscule pea sized brain, while whales have a colossal one that is hardly ever used by these sea cows, never mind the New Age/Green Peace “religion = whales are smart” bible…
There is nuclear physicists that had hydrocephaly
in their infancy, yet were fully functional with
most of their head being filled with water…one could imagine an artificial brain augmenting a carbon based one in all this empty space, but a purely AI will be really sentient the day we can time travel, never mind all the “Deus ex Machina” of science fiction.