We have A.I.s but no robots or androids helping with tasks. Say a ship needs to travlel for a long time in slipspace or regular space. Having one perform routine hands-on tasks while everyone sleeps would be helpful.
From what I’ve understood about AIs in Halo, they pretty much take care of all those routine functions themselves, along with all the higher functions required to run a star ship. So an android would kinda be superfluous if the more powerful AI can just take care of that stuff anyway.
There are robots in use by the UNSC, (https://www.halopedia.org/Robotic_rover) but those robots are really just tools used by people for the most part. They don’t seem to be the automatons you are referring to.
Okay. Thank you. It just seems weird, that’s all.
For sure. Androids are a pretty common staple in sci-fi, dating back pretty much to the beginning of science fiction writing. The thing about them being so old though, is that they really are kind of a strange form of technology. They were the product of older generations that were trying to theorize on what future technology would look like. Heck just take a look at Data from Star Trek. At the time, he was considered ridiculously advanced. The writers at the time saw Data as a ridiculous piece of technology only available in the distant future. But technology is hard to predict. Data’s processing power could fit into an iPhone now lol.
When you look at the type of tasks the UNSC uses AI for, they’re more useful as disembodied intelligences than they’d be as androids. Couple that with their technology advancing by leaps and bounds due to reverse engineering Forerunner tech which incorporates anti-gravity and wireless hacking, effectively making androids obsolete without ever designing them to begin with.
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> When you look at the type of tasks the UNSC uses AI for, they’re more useful as disembodied intelligences than they’d be as androids. Couple that with their technology advancing by leaps and bounds due to reverse engineering Forerunner tech which incorporates anti-gravity and wireless hacking, effectively making androids obsolete without ever designing them to begin with.
Quite so. AI (relative) lack of physical structure just adds a functional level of utility that would be restricted by an Android form.
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> > When you look at the type of tasks the UNSC uses AI for, they’re more useful as disembodied intelligences than they’d be as androids. Couple that with their technology advancing by leaps and bounds due to reverse engineering Forerunner tech which incorporates anti-gravity and wireless hacking, effectively making androids obsolete without ever designing them to begin with.
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> Quite so. AI (relative) lack of physical structure just adds a functional level of utility that would be restricted by an Android form.
See: Cortana jumping from chip to machine and back with ease. An AI in chip form is far more portable and easier to utilize than an android frame.
It just seems weird that we made superior A.I. dats programs that infiltrate a ship without androids first. It’s like learning to run before you even learn to stand and walk.
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> It just seems weird that we made superior A.I. dats programs that infiltrate a ship without androids first. It’s like learning to run before you even learn to stand and walk.
Well there is a lot of time between 2019 and the 2500s. Most of that history is fairly unknown in the Halo universe. So there definitely could have been androids back in the day, but in the present day of the Halo universe (the 2550s), there really just isn’t a need for them.