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| Re: What if the Covenant AI was Cortana? *Long* | |
| Posted By: Simpsons Rule <Simpsons_Rule_17@hotmail.com> | Date: 4/11/06 11:14 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: What if the Covenant AI was Cortana? *Long* (mc_leprechaun) : My understanding of this copying software is that it copies everything flaws
When Cortana was looking for the Covenant translation software, she says that she looked at the very core of the Covenant A.I. and it was convoluted, full of different codes and software she didn't understand, but also full of things like loophole programs that had to be errors. She even describes when she replicates the translation software that the Covenant A.I. looked extremely like herself, only as though it had been copied over and over again. She disregards that theory because any copying would also copy the errors present in the A.I.'s core, and all of the copies would stop in 7 years anyway. However, I believe the black, convoluted core that Cortana describes is the thing keeping the A.I. functioning. The Cortana copies kept making more and more of themselves, however they were not designed or modified as the Covenant A.I.s were with the black core. Therefore, although the copying software "becomes an inseparable copy of each subsequent copy," without the proper programming, the copies couldn't sustain themselves. The only difference, in my opinion, between the Cortana copies and the numerous-timed copied Covenant A.I. is the black core. Cortana's copyies all stopped functioning. The Covenant A.I. was smart enough to give Cortana a run for her money. Now, I know Cortana was carrying all the information about Halo, however Cortana is also the best A.I. to date. That Covenant A.I. was pretty damned impressive. : Cortana wasn't old enuff to be experiencing excessive degradation given she
Cortana even questions exactly how much of her own life she had taken away from her experiences in Halo. The A.I.s were never designed for anything even remotely close to what Cortana had performed. Therefore, while she may very well have been recently 'born,' the fact that she has performed so much may make her much farther along her life cycle than the 7 year estimate previously made. | |
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