Don’t know if you noticed but when the chief inserted the chip in his helmet the read out said ‘Weapon Containment Device’ and ‘No AI Detected’
Possible story tease. Chief’s mission is to capture Cortana using that chip.
Thoughts?
Possible. There was that blue glow in the control room. Could be Cortana on the ring. Who knows.
That would be really dumb in my honest opinion. Cortana shouldn’t be able to fit on a single chip any more. That is the whole point of the domain, it lets their neural net expand beyond what was possible on a single chip into multiple dimensions of space, avoiding rampancy. Dominion Splinter seemingly hints that Cortana is basically a compound intelligence comprised of multiple splinter copies forming a single architecture, kind of like a contender class Forerunner ancilla, so that she can just remove a fragment of the architecture without any consequence.
My hope, my solemn hope to God is that in the initial battle on Zeta Halo , the master chief inserted his new companion AI into a Forerunner terminal before being jettisoned, and he has returned to retrieve his new A.I. Or alternatively, they are going the Marathon Infinity route and this whole trailer is a giant fake out. Any sort of plot involving an empty AI chip being used to defeat or contain Cortana would be just anti-climatic, uninteresting, and literal nonsense.
As it is the idea that Chief may have been floating in orbit without the superintelligent Created Covenant detecting his body for anything more than ten to twenty minutes is just nonsense. If the Created Covenant are going to frequently demonstrate that they cannot match the capabilities of a modern machine learning algorithm combined with a high resolution camera, I really don’t have faith in the story. This is like Cortana advocating for her beliefs less capably in Halo 5 than Anakin Skywalker did in Star Wars episode 3.
A plot framing device that simultaneously doesn’t make logical sense, shifts the interesting drama offscreen, makes the antagonist look incompetent, and fails to give the start of the game the narrative, philosophical and emotional context a good story needs is not a good start.
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> That would be really dumb in my honest opinion. Cortana shouldn’t be able to fit on a single chip any more.
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Perhaps it will only work on the portion of her contained on the Halo Ring itself?
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> Perhaps it will only work on the portion of her contained on the Halo Ring itself?
Maybe. I guess I didn’t think of that.
It would kind of make sense for Cortana to have a fragment copy on every Halo ring.
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> Don’t know if you noticed but when the chief inserted the chip in his helmet the read out said ‘Weapon Containment Device’ and ‘No AI Detected’
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> Possible story tease. Chief’s mission is to capture Cortana using that chip.
>
> Thoughts?
Keep in mind, the Halo ring is a weapon in and of itself as well. Ghostbuddy’s theory about the Chief having uploaded whatever AI has been designed to neutralize the Halo makes sense, in that regard. The idea that they would want to trap Cortana in the standard AI Matrix (storage issues aside), which could then be uploaded into any UNSC AI slot (or even the idea of the Chief himself potentially uploading her into his own suit) wouldn’t make for very good containment protocols.
What really intrigues me, though, is why it still gives the Chief the option to “Continue?”. No AI is detected in whatever this Weapon Containment Device is, but whatever it is apparently doesn’t need the AI to function. It could be as simple as the UNSC, after their fallout with so many of the Created, no longer trust these nearly-omniscient AI to run all of their systems, and have devolved to using programs, maybe indistinguishable from “Dumb” AI, to handle things like shutting down the Halo, or trying to track enemy movements, etc. None of that answers the original question though: continue to what?
That said, it could also just be that the Chief, and had Halsey build in the option to just kind of shut down his armor, or take an armor-encased nap, if their BFF Weapon Containment AI go MIA.
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> > Don’t know if you noticed but when the chief inserted the chip in his helmet the read out said ‘Weapon Containment Device’ and ‘No AI Detected’
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> > Possible story tease. Chief’s mission is to capture Cortana using that chip.
> >
> > Thoughts?
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> Keep in mind, the Halo ring is a weapon in and of itself as well. Ghostbuddy’s theory about the Chief having uploaded whatever AI has been designed to neutralize the Halo makes sense, in that regard. The idea that they would want to trap Cortana in the standard AI Matrix (storage issues aside), which could then be uploaded into any UNSC AI slot (or even the idea of the Chief himself potentially uploading her into his own suit) wouldn’t make for very good containment protocols.
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> What really intrigues me, though, is why it still gives the Chief the option to “Continue?”. No AI is detected in whatever this Weapon Containment Device is, but whatever it is apparently doesn’t need the AI to function. It could be as simple as the UNSC, after their fallout with so many of the Created, no longer trust these nearly-omniscient AI to run all of their systems, and have devolved to using programs, maybe indistinguishable from “Dumb” AI, to handle things like shutting down the Halo, or trying to track enemy movements, etc. None of that answers the original question though: continue to what?
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> That said, it could also just be that the Chief, and had Halsey build in the option to just kind of shut down his armor, or take an armor-encased nap, if their BFF Weapon Containment AI go MIA.
Interesting catch about the ability to “Continue”. Obviously the chip isn’t a standard AI chip. You know how Geek Squad at Best Buy has a flash drive program designed to search and “quarantine” viruses? Maybe this chip is starting a program that would isolate a connected AI from a network and quarantine it in the chip. The fact that is says “No AI Detected” and the option to continue means that the program didn’t find anything not on the chip, but in his suite and all he needs to do is continue to close the program. Any thoughts?
The whole “No AI Detected” thing could mean that he’s just occupying his port so nothing else could get in.
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> > That would be really dumb in my honest opinion. Cortana shouldn’t be able to fit on a single chip any more.
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