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Aibghalien ([personal profile] wizardsaregodtier) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-06-08 01:49 pm

Nuke it smarter, not harder [Open]

Outside the Sensorium, a large floating sign proclaimed in large text:

SENSORIUM IN USE. PRIMARY OCCUPANT: AIBGHALIEN MARSAI. PURPOSE: DEPLOYMENT OF SIMULATED AND GENUINE MAGIC. VISITORS WELCOME. CAUTION! NONSIMULATED MAGIC IN USE!

A helpful magic mouth also repeated these words verbally to those who drew close, a necessary sop to potential issues of translation (or literacy). Despite this ungainly addition tio the illusory sign, Aibghalien was pleased with his idea.

Such thoughts had fallen far to the back of his mind, however, as in the Sensorium he had created a fourfold simulated environment. One quadrant, which the door opened onto, consisted of his tower laboratory from his days as a regent, with tables of magical and alchemical apparatuses set up in various states of use or disarray. The next quarter clockwise was a battlefield, with two armies clashing in a seemingly perpetual state of conflict. Continuing around, in the third quadrant, a group of orogs shuffled aimlessly around a dungeon hallway in exactly the manner one would assume orogs would shuffle about while waiting for adventurers to burst in on them in their otherwise empty and joyless 20x20 dungeon room. Finally, in the fourth quadrant stood Aibghalien, dispassionately deploy a mighty gout of fire from his hands into a swarming mass of Kessek.

“Pause,” he said out loud – not necessary, but Aibghalien found it helpful to set deliberate barriers between his general mental thought processes and the commands he intended to give the sensorium. The image froze in the midst of the fire impacting the Kessek armor. Nodding to himself, Aibghalien stepped forward to examine the intersection of attack and defense, analyzing the impact with the intent of improving it.
anwei: PB is Cynthia Rothrock (Anwei look right punch smile)

[personal profile] anwei 2012-06-16 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
"The uppermost limits of human intelligence are very high." She considered for an instant. "I was thinking more of the fact that an artificial intelligence can think and learn hundreds or thousands of times faster than an organic brain. If it had the guidance to be able to teach itself, how quickly could it advance in magic, I wonder?"

Even if it started at below human intelligence, there was no reason why it couldn't climb beyond it.
anwei: PB is Cynthia Rothrock (Anwei smile black)

[personal profile] anwei 2012-06-18 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Anwei blinked. Her AI Horanckk certainly had a will of his own, and could be breathtakingly stubborn on occasion (and she loved him for it). If only he were here, he'd undoubtedly take Aibghalien's words as a challenge.

Perhaps she should try and follow in his footsteps - not that he had any feet, usually.

"Would you be interested in experimenting with seeing if an AI can learn magic? But if you're certain that you couldn't teach one, of course, I wouldn't want you to waste your time."
anwei: PB is Cynthia Rothrock (Anwei reads)

[personal profile] anwei 2012-06-21 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"As it happens, I have recently acquired a Ninth Empire artifact that has - well, not sentience, but the seed of sentience. I will probably be spending considerable time seeing if I can uplift it. If I succeed, and if the AI is interested, I would be flattered to have it be your student."

It or she or he or whatever.

"Would two students be better than one? I learned a great deal about mathematics and programming rather late in life, so I know I have the ability to learn new complex systems."
anwei: PB is Cynthia Rothrock (Anwei look left headband)

[personal profile] anwei 2012-06-22 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I - don't suppose there's such a thing as a standardized magical aptitude test? Or should I - or we - just try to learn and see if we succeed?"