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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote:
Something I've been thinking about a lot is replication and migration of
computation. If a VOS AI bot could upload itself to other servers (given
proper credentials, of course) it could quite literally wander from server
to server, well beyond the purview of the creator. Unlike a virus or
worm, it would retain memories of what it had seen and done, so it could
learn as it travels. VOS would provide the environment for this new kind
of artifical life.
Whoa, that sounds like Skyn*carrier lost*
Peter, this sounds awesome.
Rather than Terminator, I was actually thinking more like Lawnmower Man,
where at the very end Job manages to "upload himself to the Internet"...
Unfortunately the sequel totally squandered the potential by bringing
Job's physical body back to life, rather than having him be a ghost in the
machine that lived in the network and controls things from the background.
A similar idea occurs in the end of The Otherland series, where a couple
of the characters (Orlando and Sellars) become part of the "Otherland"
simulation when their physical bodies die.
But I'm getting off track in to Wired-hype territory here :-)
[ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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