Test Log Fourteen: This is your fault

[getsciencedone]

 [GLaDOS was not happy. Not happy in the slightest.

She'd been normal again, wonderfully normal. Not 100% back to normal but being mobile did have it's advantages that made her fine to overlook a few details.

And now she was human again. Just like she was before this whole mess started.

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[cramschoolgod]

[Peeks around the corner.]

I suppose this isn't likely to be some kind of an experiment, Glados?

[getsciencedone]

[A book hits the wall and GLaDOS looks over. Visibly enraged.]

Does it look like I'm doing an experiment?

[cramschoolgod]

Honestly, it's sometimes hard to tell.

What's happened?

[getsciencedone]

Well I'm not.

I'll tell you what's happened. This town made me human again.

Now I have to eat, sleep ...bathe.

[She shudders.]

It's disgusting and more importantly a waste of time.

[cramschoolgod]

You know, I've become inured to it through force of habit, but I can certainly see where you're coming from. Technically, though, I suppose you don't have to bathe. And sleep is a mechanism that occasionally has its purposes.

Have you rejected the idea of staying up until just before the morning and then killing yourself, to awaken relatively refreshed? I've thought that would lead to a productivity increase, myself.

And there's always cake, Glados.

[It is an attempt at consoling. It is poor.]

[getsciencedone]

It has to be just before 12 or you miss a day and then you'll waste the rest of that morning while you sleep.

[So yes. Just a little bit of thought into that.

Also she doesn't like dying.]

I don't know how humans ever got anything done. It's no wonder they were so behind on that project.

[Just fuming now.]

[cramschoolgod]

[Cautiously enters the room.] Ah, I hadn't tried it myself, merely thought of it as a theoretical possibility. It's a shame.

Ah, and the answer is, they did it very inefficiently. Still, there are elements of the human brain which seem to make up for all of the disadvantages, at least in part. Cooperation between humans and artificial intelligences, given the limitations of each, could lead to an overall advantage for both.

What project were they behind on, by the way?

[getsciencedone]

[She has at least stopped throwing books. Instead settling for slumping down in a chair.]

Really, and what sort of elements are those? Inability to listen to reason? Murderous stupidity?

[Stupid test subject, why didn't she just die like she was supposed to!]

The Handheld Portal device of course. That's why they built me. Because they weren't getting anywhere with it.

[cramschoolgod]

A certain brand of unexpected creativity. We have a form of intelligence in 'intuition' which seems to find answers more quickly than is otherwise possible by any algorithmic searches, for example, or routines of any other given kind. From a simple Markov chain to even the most effective probabilistic model, I haven't seen anything that is more efficient than the human brain, even though it is often much slower.

[getsciencedone]

[Not pleased.]

The ones I've seen, haven't been very impressive.

[cramschoolgod]

Naturally, not all of them; and many are much worse. But my point is merely that a computer's brute force strength is at the least billions of times better; and yet even at games which are very susceptible to brute force computation, like chess, the best humans can at least hold their own. In games of greater complexity, like go, they lose comprehensively.

[getsciencedone]

Maybe they might get things finished if they didn't spend all their time playing games.

[cramschoolgod]

Perhaps so. At any rate, you've made a great deal of progress in these short days, possessing your normal equipment. Think of it in optimistic terms, perhaps. For myself, I'm confident you'll get past this.

[getsciencedone]

[Just kind of looking over at her. Aha, what is positive emotions? She doesn't need to be cheered up/lies.]

....of course I will.

[Still slightly fuming. But she's stuck with this stupid needy body again now. Just going to look over some of the sketches she'd drawn of the portal gun.]

Hmph, they could have at least left me with the Portal device.

[cramschoolgod]

[Sasaki goes so far as to smile at Glados with as much--not much--reassurance as she can muster.]

Indeed. You have in your current form still far more capabilities than a human--and more importantly, you haven't reached the potential of those capabilities, and so there is, as they say, plenty of research still to be done.

[She lifts an eyebrow.] You had received it back? I'm sorry I didn't get to see it...

[getsciencedone]

[That seems to snap her back to attention.]

Yes, there is research to be done.

...Yes, I had it back for a short while. They took it back of course.