If an A.I. had an appearance of say i dunno…lets use Serena from halo wars. Ok, lets say Serena wanted to change her appearance to look like Cortana. Is that possible? Would anything Serena had like memory wise get damaged? Or like would you need an A.I. Specialist to change the appearance, or could the A.I.'s just do it themselves? This is all coming from a thought I had today. Let me guys know, thanks.
As far as I’m aware ‘smart’ AI choose their appearance upon their conception. Cortana is possibly unique in that she chooses the appearance of a younger Doctor Halsey, the brain-donor she is flash-cloned from. AI’s appearance is just a hologram, remember. The ‘real’ Cortana is a computer existing on a data crystal chip, not the hologram. Logically, AI could choose to change their appearance without damage to themselves. Black Box regularly changes small parts of his design, though the basic design of a cube never alters. It’s an interesting topic to think on. The AI aren’t their holograms. Every time Cortana changes colour to indicate emotion she must be doing it for the humans’ benefit.
The only counter-argument I can put to this is Roland in Spartan Ops. While under attack from Halsey’s hack he presents that battle as a hologram, something you wouldn’t think you would put processing power into if you were in mortal danger. it always struck me as odd, so if anyone has some more information on the relationship between AI and their holograms I’m all ears.
They rarely require a specialist for anything, as far as I know. One AI speculates if ‘smart’ AI will ever just leave the humans, as they could do so much better themselves. Thankfully, as long as they avoid rampancy they generally decide not to. I digress 
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> As far as I’m aware ‘smart’ AI choose their appearance upon their conception. Cortana is possibly unique in that she chooses the appearance of a younger Doctor Halsey, the brain-donor she is flash-cloned from. AI’s appearance is just a hologram, remember. The ‘real’ Cortana is a computer existing on a data crystal chip, not the hologram. Logically, AI could choose to change their appearance without damage to themselves. Black Box regularly changes small parts of his design, though the basic design of a cube never alters. It’s an interesting topic to think on. The AI aren’t their holograms. Every time Cortana changes colour to indicate emotion she must be doing it for the humans’ benefit.
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> The only counter-argument I can put to this is Roland in Spartan Ops. While under attack from Halsey’s hack he presents that battle as a hologram, something you wouldn’t think you would put processing power into if you were in mortal danger. it always struck me as odd, so if anyone has some more information on the relationship between AI and their holograms I’m all ears.
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- smart Ai like Roland have no limitations in their dynamic memory-processor matrix… Dumb Ai are the exception. the bigger question why does Roland sound like a Teufel Hunden yankee when he is portraying a Limy pilot.**OT::**The duty which the AI is to perform, combined with the human brain that was used to create it, have a great deal to do with what avatar they chose to appear as. Without exception, AI systems identify themselves as male or female based on the gender of their brain donor. As well as visual representation, AIs are also able to choose their preferred accent or style of speech.
This visual representation is chosen by the AI upon their creation and can be whatever they desire it to be. The creation of an AI’s avatar occurs very early in the system’s birthing process, and unless an AI is programmed to have multiple avatars, it does not usually alter its appearance after its initial creation, and attempts to do so have resulted in catastrophic AI system crashes - halo encyclopaedia (page 220)
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> **OT::**The duty which the AI is to perform, combined with the human brain that was used to create it, have a great deal to do with what avatar they chose to appear as. Without exception, AI systems identify themselves as male or female based on the gender of their brain donor. As well as visual representation, AIs are also able to choose their preferred accent or style of speech.
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> This visual representation is chosen by the AI upon their creation and can be whatever they desire it to be. The creation of an AI’s avatar occurs very early in the system’s birthing process, and unless an AI is programmed to have multiple avatars, it does not usually alter its appearance after its initial creation, and attempts to do so have resulted in catastrophic AI system crashes - halo encyclopaedia (page 220)
Right. I’m aware of the no limitations, and I’m sorry I said ‘processing power’ I see now that was wholly inaccurate. Cortana did have issues, didn’t she, after the events of Halo 1 when she was carrying around all the data she retrieved from Installation 04. If they are under attack as it appeared Roland was, to be incapacitated, I don’t think it translates into an explanation why an AI would actively represent their completely virtual attack holographically. Because they can?
And what on earth is a Teuful Hunden yankee?
EDIT: also cheers on the encyclopedia entry, but I still think it’s silly. It’s just a hologram, so it’s just a matter of manipulating light, something a smart AI should make a cakewalk out of. Obviously I don’t understand something about holograms or how AI create their avatars.
I think it has something to do with their sense of self. Their appearance is a visual representation of their identity, something that happens as they are created. I don’t think they can drastically change their appearance without in someway fundamentally changing who they are. It’s like a emergent property based on their code.
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> I think it has something to do with their sense of self. Their appearance is a visual representation of their identity, something that happens as they are created. I don’t think they can drastically change their appearance without in someway fundamentally changing who they are. It’s like a emergent property based on their code.
But that’s silly space magic mumbo jumbo. It’s just a matter of projecting a hologram. If an AI can manipulate holographic displays to produce all sorts of images why couldn’t it choose to portray its own appearance however it chooses?
The sheer amount of information recovered from Halo cut into Cortana’s processing power, a burden which weakened her greatly. During her time on Ascendant Justice, Cortana exhibited uncharacteristic behaviour including anger, distraction, and self-doubt - an indicator that she was nearing rampancy. Dr.Halsey erased some data from her memory to give her more thinking space. Dynamic memory is the equivalent of RAM in humans short term memory… what Harley deleted was likely part of the long term (Hard drive in a PC). the same thing happens to a PC with a full Hard drive, OS get sluggish and it thinks its self into a freeze regardless of the amount of RAM.
Teuful Hunden yankee <> Devil Dog American (U.S marine) // Roland models him self after a Limy (British) world war 2 test pilot named Roland Prosper Beamont, Chuck Yeager would have been better choice for a American accented wwii test pilot.