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Chapter 14, Page 15

Chapter 14, Page 15

And that’s all the time we need to spend with Girii and her crew right now. You’ll have to wait until next chapter to learn more about Kentaro’s plan.

On Monday we’ll get back to Jacob, and see how he’s doing.  I’m sure he’s making new friends among the Brahmin, they seem like such amicable fellows.

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Girii: Enrique, find whatever you can to barricade the service tunnel. Block us off. Sally, get Kentaro plugged in.
Sally: You really think this will work, Girii?
Girii: It's Kentaro's plan. We just have to trust that he's smart enough to see us through it.
Sally: Great. Trust the crazy jar brain.
Kentaro: I know, I may not be that intelligent yet...but I'm making myself a little smarter every second. Just you wait. I won't let you down.

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Discussion (7)¬

  1. Jay says:

    Huh, why are the AIs never smart enough to know what happens to the smart AIs?

  2. Brad says:

    Why do teenagers never listen and need to find things out for themselves the hard way? :0

  3. SpectralTime says:

    There’s a difference between staying up too late and doing meth.

    And this is murder-suicide meth.

  4. Zarpaulus says:

    Oh great, they’re Seed-type AIs.

    That would explain why they go insane all the time.

  5. Matt40000 says:

    Seed-type AIs?

    “I’m making myself a little smarter every second” gave me the chills

  6. Zarpaulus says:

    Seed AIs use genetic algorithms to get around that pesky business of needing to program an entire brain by hand.

    Programs that employ genetic algorithms copy segments of their code, make alterations to the copies, and test them against the original code. Whichever copy performs better is used from then on until something better is produced.

    Some people think it’s a useful shortcut, even if it adds a bit of time to the production of any new AI. Others fear it because there’s no saying what the end product could be.

  7. Vingfel says:

    It’s the repetition of “I won’t let you down” which give me chills…