| From: | "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@****.TAMU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | AIs and magic (again???? Puh-leese) |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Oct 92 06:28:47 CET |
]magic to boot...but picture a run in which the shadowrunners are to make
]a hit on a research facility and, unbeknownst to everyone, the AI project
]has achieved rudimentary sentience and wields primitive magic. Will it
]occur to the 'runners that the useage of magic might be indicative that
]a new form of life has emerged? It would put a new twist on a run, wouldn't
]it?
>What? You mean a lawnmower man? Nope. Didn't like it then, and I
don't like it now. AIs CANNOT, repeat _CANNOT_ do magic, as magic requires
life, not mere (right "mere") sentience. Besides, AIs can't exist except as a
computer whose instructions for dealing with tasks are myriad and varied.
That's all they ARE. While it may be argued that AIs can tell a mage how to
assemble a spell formula (if hermetic, at any rate), they cannot do it
effectively, and they certainly cannot use the damn things. The best they can
hope for is a theoretical understanding and perhaps a bit of the practical, but
never, ever could they do it.
>>>>>[Just remember, boys and girls:
>--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF DOOM>
Dark Thought Publications & Doom Technologies, Inc.
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
>Magic doesn't work in the Matrix, but it works ON the Matrix.]<<<<<
