Benefactor (contains spoilers)
Anyone notice that the races the benefactor used? Because I only remember krogen, turian, asari, human, and salarian.
In ME3 you can get a picture of Tali so you know what a quarian looks like. I...
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i also think we shouldn't guess how artificial intelligence will actually work, what can influence it's functions, or how viruses would effect it, until someone actually creates true ai, or at least a functional blue print of it. though in the context of mass effect, i'm not really sure i get how most of their ai actually functions anyway. so, i'd just be guessing. nor am i an expert of programming or computer tech.
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i also think we shouldn't guess how artificial intelligence will actually work, what can influence it's functions, or how viruses would effect it, until someone actually creates true ai, or at least a functional blue print of it. though in the context of mass effect, i'm not really sure i get how most of their ai actually functions anyway. so, i'd just be guessing. nor am i an expert of programming or computer tech.
While I do agree that we should not get *too* serious when discussing AI in video games, I do not believe that suggestion that "we shouldn't guess" anything is valid - *at least* as far as ME games are concerned. Well, AIs were put into the franchise, are vital to plots of *all* the Mass Effect games, and there was a lot of effort from Devs to explain some basics of how they work both in-game and in codex entries. We cannot just say "OK, it is hardly understandable magic box, let's accept that it can do anything and anything can be done with it". I want to believe that there is at least some "science" to the "fiction" element with MEs being advertised as SF games. ;-)
So yes, I believe I am entitled to make some assumptions and to develop some parallels that allow me to understand Mass Effect AIs better. I am using some basic logic to deconstruct the idea, and I am using those deconstructions to experience the game. I do not think that playing ME2 and ME3 would make much sense without allowing EDI or Legion some genuine personality rather than just perceiving them as "meh, something, something, I do not get it, they doesn't really matter to me at all". And should I restrain myself from making any assumptions about alien species as well because, You know, they are "alien"?
Of course, Devs *can* (and often *do*) apply some elements that are inconsistent with my vision and understanding, which is their privilege - even if in some cases it just makes those elements cheap and silly to me.
At the same time I can just discuss possible ways of hacking AI with You and other users - which is probably not very productive, but still remains a nice and intelligent way of spending time. :-)
well, lets try flipping this around then. if you were going about making a virus to corrupt an ai... such as EDI, or the zha 'til (the latter you'd first need to define them technologically, as we know so little about them) how would you go about it? the intent would be to turn them hostile against organic life, for a useful purpose. such as but not limited to: turning the zha 'til into a living weapon to simply divert the attention of the protheans or somesuch, i'm just using that as an example?
or, on second though this is getting way off topic. maybe a new thread? something like "creating a technological singularity with the intent of causing the end of the world"? just a working title.
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