1st Miracle

[miraclemecswake]

Hrm. Could a sufficiently technologically advanced virus give actual sentience to an AI?

Furthermore, what constitutes a machine's AI? Is it empathic link, or emotions, or technical though, or learning...

I wonder!

Finally got my Duel Disk all modified, though. I like it now. The standard issue model was so boring.

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[pureplainpatron]

It's the capacity to gain a soul, more or less.

...so I guess empathic link isn't too far away.

A 'normal' style of computer virus probably couldn't do it, unless the hardware had some capacity for it already.

[miraclemecswake]

It's an interesting thing to contemplate!

So an empathic link, hm? That'd be hard to replicate in consistent circumstances...

Not a normal style, obviously. It'd have to be far beyond the technological curve.

[pureplainpatron]

It's easier than you think. It's just very difficult in terms of anything short of quantum physics. I imagine that it could replicate the outward appearance decently, but true self-awareness would likely be a freak accident, if it happened at all.

Let me rephrase. A software virus operating on hardware that has no potential for such things, regardless of the power or the method involved, could not become sentient.

[miraclemecswake]

That's what I mean, it'd have small percentage3 chance of actually happening, therefore, it would need to redone again and again until the result was repeated. It wouldn't be practical.

Hrm. So it'd have to be a virus operating on hardware that itself had the potential for snetinence for anything to happen... but even then, the virus structure would probably have to be completely different from what we've seen.