• paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    I wish I could get GLaDOS’s voice as a replacement for Siri’s, and she’d just be a total bitch about everything. So even if she couldn’t figure out what I wanted or whatever, she would just come back with something like, “I could tell you that, but I really don’t feel like telling you, I would rather you suffered for the rest of the day, not knowing the answer.” Just make her non-answers something I actually wanted to hear her say.

      • buycurious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        291·
        1 year ago

        Spoilers below (and apologies, as I can’t get the spoiler tag to work. If someone knows, let me know!).

        In Portal 2, you learn the GLaDOS is actually the brain dump of Cave Johnson’s assistant, named Caroline. Cave Johnson is the one that ran the company that created the portal gun.

            • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 year ago

              It can be both natural and artificial. Bananas are a perfect example. They grow in the wild, but not human-altered bananas are extinct. Hence they are natural, as they don’t require humans to produce more of them, and artificial, as humans made them.

              Also, if you want to get real pedantic, all human intelligence is artificial as you learn from other humans. Also, your parents made your mind.

              • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
                2·
                1 year ago

                We could just say a different word to distinguish them, like UI for uploaded intelligence, or anything really. Having a different word for each seems more productive than debate about which is the more accurate use.

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          9·
          1 year ago

          Well that depends on what your definition of AI is. IMO if pathfinding is AI then GLaDOS is definitely AI

          • Chais@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            1 year ago

            Actually A* is deterministic thus simply intelligently designed, but not intelligent itself. Nobody considers that AI.

            • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              1 year ago

              I don’t necessarily consider pathfinding AI, but I don’t like that reasoning. If ai coded a set of rules for a units behavior, if that behavior responds to different conditions, I’d consider it AI. Even though it is purely deterministic.

              • Chais@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                1 year ago

                That would make any non-trivial piece of code AI. Like ffmpeg, for example, or a chess computer. Complicated tools, sure, but with a bit of effort you can predict how they will behave in a given circumstance. Meaning you could set a trap for the chess computer and it would walk right into it. Every single time. No learning occurs.
                Until a few years ago AI was effectively synonymous with AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, which requires the software to be able to adapt to new situations and be able to solve even unknown problems with as few or fewer attempts than a human would need.

        • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think it’s such a stretch to say that a digital copy is artificial, especially with the given context of malfunctions and personality alteration/memory deletion (and stuff I can’t quite put into words, like her existing for so long and doing testing when no other scientists are left). Even Wheatley seems more human, though stupid and ultimately just as malicious.

          I mean I could’ve seen the story written differently (and perhaps some of it was played for laughs) but that’s not what it was.

          @Chais

          • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Even though Wheatley is supposed to be the stupid one, he actually does a pretty good job learning from past mistakes that he and others have made. If only Chell didn’t medle in turret production.

      • Chais@sh.itjust.works
        152·
        1 year ago

        Because she’s the mind of Cave Johnson’s assistant Caroline copied into the computer. GLaDOS is actually an anagram acronym of “Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System”