Saint’s Testimony got me thinking about AIs more recently. AIs of the smart and dumb variety seem to be in the hands of important military and governmental roles for the most part. Dumb AIs running cities seems to be lowest-level function I’ve seen AIs do in the Halo universe. Yet do civilian concerns ever made use of AIs? For example, I would definitely see the benefit of corporations using AIs for book-keeping, handling calls, secretary work, building maintenance, etc. What about in terms of entertainment? Right now holograms are a big deal with musical acts of deceased artists and virtual artists like the Gorillaz and Hatsune Miku. Is it conceivable that a media giant may convert an AI to fulfill this kind of role?
It makes me wonder what kind of changes could occur for civilian-level AIs, if they exist, if Iona’s testimony eventually paves the way for the granting of human rights to AIs.
Well, human rights to AI… smart vs dumb… that’s a debate to be had I guess…
But Civilian wise? I do wonder if datapads and chatters and so on have commercial AIs, sort of how smart phones have Siri, Cortana and windows 10s have Cortana, so I wonder how that evolves in halo.
What about the Superintendent?
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It ran New Mombasa and Sadie’s dad used a fragment of it for his daughters use, but I wonder if that was a common practice or not.
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I don’t see why not. Going by Occam’s Razor that is. It is the 26th century after all.
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I would point out that it’s still a government controlled AI though, I don’t think the Superintendent counts as a civilian AI.
The way technology is today, I think it’s safe to assume that AIs are a huge part of civilian life.
In regards to your hologram point, isn’t it illegal in the Haloverse for AI o impersonate real people, deceased or not?
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Maybe we have an AI version of Marty O’Donnell running around orchestrating in the 26th century?
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The UEG is civilian.
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I also just finished reading Saint’s Testimony a couple of hours ago. First time purchasing an iBook.
Those are all suggestions that I could picture AIs in the Halo Universe doing. Have you seen videos of the Tupac hologram? Myras Tyla from Halo: Uprising was someone who wanted to be remembered so badly, no where did she mention a hologram of herself, but it would take care some of her desire to be remembered as a performer and a musician.
There was a Disney Channel Original movie called Smart House, which I believe took some inspiration from Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt. I could see AIs in the 26th century taking care of housekeeping duties, essentially running all the operations. It monitors the household, has a determined schedule. At 7:00, the AI calls for dinner or for a child to place their laundry in system.
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Sorry, I was thinking civilian like “available to the the average Joe” more so than “separate from military.” I understand what is being discussed now.
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Urban Infrastructure AIs probably limited to extremely large and densely-populated cities to help keep things flowing. If I had to guess, I’d say mainly the cities with space elevators had them.
Well we know from Contact Harvest that AIs can handle interplanetary shipping and agricultural operations. If AIs start getting human rights, I’d have to assume that it would be limited to smart AIs given how they’re created versus “dumb” AIs. Their rights would also likely be significantly limited when compared to ours. I think smart and dumb AIs are only available to large organizations though and most people probably never interact with one directly, so I don’t actually think it would change society too greatly. Although their are traces of transhumanism in 343’s Halo media lately and I’m sure that’ll come into play by the end of the Reclaimer saga.
they would use them in there communication devices, entertainment devices, and transportation
Quick question who exactly has access to Smart AIs? Military only or do civilian and private companies can have them. Like private sercurity firms or what not?
The public probably has access to comm pads or smartphones that incorporate a a basic dumb A.I similar to Siri or Cortana but smarter and faster. Personally couldn’t see the UEG or UNSC allowing corporations to outfit the genreal publics comm appliances or computers with smart A.I’s that could be used by potential terrorists/insurrectionists to gain access to classified Intel etc even if ONI or the UNSC has smart A.I’s protecting such info it would probably be to much of a risk.
The UEG probably regulates it so that you can’t have any AI that’s capable of more than basic tasks, because AI’s in the wrong hands could be extremely dangerous.
Have you guys forgotten about I Love Bees? I know its not 100% canon but its still canon. Jersey Morelli has a AI he uses in his chatter before Durga deleted. So I assume most people would have one depending on devices.
I know it’s mentioned in passing at some point in one of the Kilo 5 books, something about a “typical” dumb AI in regards to some job. I’d imagine basic dumb AIs are fairly standard for stuff like basic astrogation for civilian ships, engineers or other technical jobs, and similar stuff. I doubt they meet the performance of military or even civilian government dumb AIs like superintendents, I’d imagine something meant to maintain a city though “dumb” in AI terms would still be a huge step above an “everyday” AI.
I imagine its a matter of wealth.
I could see richer people using them as digital butlers and the like. Think JARVIS from Iron Man. That’s just imagination on my part though.