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ChainedLightning · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 85

So, let's say Metacortex has developed an AI... and the AI has realized that the world isn't "real". The not-so-bright-yet AI created by Metacortex could then easily create a program that looks like a man, and wherever this program went it is possible he would create anomolies... but this program might not yet be able to talk with humans yet, even though it's trying to figure it out.

That doesn't explain the patterns that Beth is seeing though.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:00 pm

Mod · Boot Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Brasil

Why the protocol is named as cg://ara9975.lka18383 . It looks like an internet adress.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:02 pm

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Hmm...the problem with the AI-discovers-the-Matrix theories (I've been thinking along those lines as well) is that the Animatrix short "Matriculated" was based on the premise that an AI cannot determine whether its surroundings are real. I forget the explanation given in the anime, but it seemed to make sense, I think. Very Happy

Would that be considered canon? I have doubts about introducing the comics as evidence in Matrix debates, but the anime were supervised by the great Brothers themselves (not to mention the ones that were written by them), so presumably they'd have ensured that the ideas in them weren't too far removed from their own...

However, this ARG is certainly free to throw those notions to the wind...which was my reasoning behind ignoring Matriculated and continuing to speculate along those lines. Very Happy

I wanted to throw this out there, though.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:07 pm

xnbomb

**Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:13 pm

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Wix · Boot Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 57

All together now...

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:59 am

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Nice wrap up Wix. It completly makes sense and I think covers everything. Main points:

- The AI can't speak or remember anything
- The AI can read minds
- The AI follows instructions blindly

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:21 am

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:31 am

Pollux Troy · Boot Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Brazil

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:30 am

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:43 am

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(Dont think this has been mentioned)

For anyone thats seen the animatrix, we see there are countless AI programs that monitor, and rectify glitches found in the matrix...no not agents, just bug exterminators...this "man" could be something that catalogues glitches etc. I'm pretty sure thats what we all think, or close to anyway...

[edit] to explain myself a bit clearer...i am NOT, repeat NOT suggesting he is ai sent from the machines, i believe he is most likely the work of ai, i only mentioned the other ones from animatrix coz it gives an example of ai searching for glitches. sorry >.< [/edit]

joebrent

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I didnt mean he is sent by robots, I just meant he is AI, and not a man, and the only reason he is there is either because of the glitch, or to investigate the glitch...I didnt actually mean he was sent by the machines, but I can see why it sounded a lot like that, I have read this thread, and its already been mentioned loads that he must be the work of meta, and most likely their project "labyrinth". Dang...next time I wont think out loud without explaning myself properly, sometimes only you understand what you mean...if you get what i mean? lol

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:45 pm

Ahriman · Boot Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 45 Location: UK

I don't think that the machines would necessarily use a language like that, but this might just be an AI stream of consciousness translated onto Beth's PDA in the only way that her PDA could recognise. I still think that the 'man' is some form of program, and what we see in the files were indeed a kind of internal monologue.

I do like the idea that Labyrinth is beginning to hack the matrix, though - and not necessarily beyond the realms of possiblity in the matrix universe, I wouldn't have thought. It's using vast amounts of processing power to do something after all. What if the anomalies are, in fact, Labyrinth learning the programming language of the matrix? As people have already pointed out, the AI's languages would be sophisticated and intricate, and Labyrinth would need a lot more processing power to hack the matrix than is available in the comparatively old-fashioned mainframes it is currently limited to. It might explain the huge whomps that the hackers are discussing.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:18 pm

yanka

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:49 pm

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