during the forerunner-flood war we all know that the warrior caste was turned into the Promethean knights also with the humans during that time. I was playing spartan ops the daidacts gift when you found out that the Promethean A.I. core is a human from new phoenix. then is hit me…is the original person or forerunner inside thinking and moving the body of the knight or is it just a connection between the AI and the body AKA dumb AI (by forerunner standards)? I know they are able to think because sometimes you will see them direct units and sometimes you can hear them talking.
The Promethean AI is something I’ve never quite understood. If it were simply a self aware Promethean placed in a robot body, it would make sense. But I doubt ancient humans, much less the citizens of New Phoenix, have much combat experience to be adequate combat AIs. I think it would make more sense to just mass produce combat AIs, slap them in the Knights and be done with it.
Dumb.
Oh wait! You’re talking about the fluff? Then I’m going to say dumb also. Smart implies they’re able to think about defying their orders, but you can still program A.I. to follow special tactics based on specific situations they’re programmed to recognise.
Technically they’re made more similarly to smart AI’s, but they seem to have pretty major limitations. I agree with Cobra that the point of them seems to be pretty silly. Beyond having a better body, what does composing living organisms have over just slapping more sentinel AI’s in it.
It all comes down to the didact being driven nuts by the flood. I don’t think practicality really comes into it. The forerunners seemed to be largely losing to star roads, some robots that could counter infection were really going to accomplish nothing.
Despite what was said in the vidoc, the prometheans are pretty much robot monsters.
> Technically they’re made more similarly to smart AI’s, but they seem to have pretty major limitations. I agree with Cobra that the point of them seems to be pretty silly. Beyond having a better body, what does composing living organisms have over just slapping more sentinel AI’s in it.
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> It all comes down to the didact being driven nuts by the flood. I don’t think practicality really comes into it. The forerunners seemed to be largely losing to star roads, some robots that could counter infection were really going to accomplish nothing.
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> Despite what was said in the vidoc, the prometheans are pretty much robot monsters.
I’m gonna say “dumb”; although the Didact created them from humans, it doesn’t seem like their minds didn’t survive the process completely intact… in other words, not stable enough to create a Smart AI.
The Prometheans I believe are similar to the Sentinals in that they cannot act without directive or outside established protocols. I don’t think the Forerunners ever succeeded in creating a true Smart AI; the closest they cam were the Monitors and the Librarian. They too seemed to be bound by protocol, unlike Cortana, who was able to think for herself.
> I’m gonna say “dumb”; although the Didact created them from humans, it doesn’t seem like their minds didn’t survive the process completely intact… in other words, not stable enough to create a Smart AI.
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> The Prometheans I believe are similar to the Sentinals in that they cannot act without directive or outside established protocols. I don’t think the Forerunners ever succeeded in creating a true Smart AI; the closest they cam were the Monitors and the Librarian. They too seemed to be bound by protocol, unlike Cortana, who was able to think for herself.
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I got the feeling that the only Prometeans with limiteations and programing where the human ones. I think the first onef, made from the Prometean forerunners was not programed since they choose to be composed and where under the didacts command from the beginning. They operated as normal soldiers as machines and without the ability to speak. And as mentioned abowe I doubt the Humans that where compased would follow the didacts leadership withou some kind of tampering. This is just me speculating.
> Despite what was said in the vidoc, the prometheans are pretty much robot monsters.
That’s something 343i knows they failed at. I watched a video where 343i talked about the Prometheans development, and some things they accomplished and failed. One of the things they said they failed at was making the Prometheans seem like just robot monsters, which isn’t what they wanted. They wanted the Prometheans to seem alive, more than just robot monsters, but they unfortunately failed at it.
However, I think the Knights have phantom sensation, or memories, of the person they once were. In Episode 9, Chapter 5, you can see a Knight scratch his head with his small hands. Now, why would a robot monster that can’t feel anything need to scratch its head, unless it could actually feel the sensation of scratching, or try to bring that sensation memory back? I think the Knights actually have either phantom sensations, or memories, or both, of the person they once were. When I say memories, I don’t mean Episode 5’s memories, but instead sensation memories, similar to how Serina remembers how chocolate tastes, even though she clearly has never been able to taste chocolate, but the only reason why she remembers the sensation is because of the person she came from tasted chocolate once.
I think that little part of the Knight scratching his head was one of the first steps to try and actually make the Prometheans seem more than just robot monsters, but instead actually live somewhat.