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[amiantos]

Mirrored from the other thread

[Gracer]

I find it interesting that AI man perked up at the idea of showing her Paris, and off they went. And then she takes everything in, gets the coords from him, and off they go again, and she's all in a flurry of fun and excitement and recording everything.

Then they get back to the campsite and start talking about human friendships. I can't think of any test that has to do with this, but I just find it interesting that he appears to be so interested in humans and what they're like.

I mean, if he was just a glitch maintenance guy, he probably wouldn't care. "We have cleanup in sector 7!" and then he gets his coveralls on, grabs his toolkit, does the cleanup, with hardly a glance at anyone else. That's not what he's like. He appeared interested in showing, expressing, informing...and he was also gathering his own information about friendships.

Anyway. It's late at night. Just what I noticed.

[King Mob]

Sounds a bit like Data from the Next Generation doesn't he? He sounds almost as if he wants to become human; unless he's trying to learn about the intricacies of human nature for some other reason that we have yet to fathom.

EDIT: I assume then that we are waiting now to see what results/conclusions (if any) Beth is going to come up with as a result of the tests we suggested? I'm just wondering because, although that whole flood of information last night was exhausting, I'm also slightly impatient!

[bakntime]

[Marauder]

I liked whoever's idea it was to ask him if he could change her memory.

Also, I told Beth to ask AI Man if he considered her to be a friend, and why... I thought that might be interesting. She never did answer me regarding that one.

[TheGreenRabbit]

hi all!

Im in this nice ARG more as a spectator(damn university!! ) but here's my little contribution to this virtual world

A little -interresting?- test that could be done with our AI man. Maybe someone already pointed it out...

Beth wants to know if the AI can affect human memories. A simple test would be to ask him to give Beth the ability to speak/write/understand a language ( let say French or Greek or anything else) she doesnt know.

Then, she could have a little chat with us to comfirm this new "skill"....

[Marauder]

[Mag]

[Bamba-MAN]

I think Beth just needs to e-mail to the AI man (rootSPLATlittle-boxes.net) and ask him what is his purpose?

[Flynn]

An idea...

[EXTREME SPEC]
It's been noted by various people (including Beth) that our "Friend" seems to be extremely interested in how humans perceive things. Could it be that, instead of what he has been telling our heroine, he is actually designed to investigate human perception with a view to finding a way of fooling the human mind into believing that the world is other than it actually is? You can probably see where I'm going with this... I'm just thinking that everything that Beth has experienced could be explained in terms of having her perception altered, rather than reality being changed in any way.
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Starting to ramble now, but the question is - if this is his function, how do we test it?

End of ramble.

[King Mob]

That would be some optical illusions, Flynn!
If that is AI Man's purpose - and I'm not saying it is - then potentially Beth could use a recording device of some kind - such as a video camera - and record AI Man doing something extraordinary. But then again, presumably, AI Man's creators would have thought of this possiblity - assuming it's his purpose - and thus included technology into his body so as to enable him to 'fool' recording devices as well. In which case, there probably isn't much of way we could test to determine if this is indeed his true purpose (pretty nefarious and underhanded though if it is!).

[mainro]

An interesting link about artificial life:

http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~icg/topics/alife/alife.shtml

[Flynn]

[Marauder]

[bakntime]