Introducing a new AI to the world with Brianna

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As a side-thing to Gold Digger, Fred Perry did a few comic about Brianna Diggers' little AI bots known as Peebos.





Did I forget to mention all of Brianna's Peebos double as explosives? :) They started out as a project in AI bombs who'd be able to figure out when and where to explode, and branched off into a variety of 'dual use' designs ^^

'Dual use' is a phrase that crops up a lot in describing inventions she makes.



Stay strong, little Peebo. Stay strong.





Two pages from Peebomag vol 1

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Creator: Fred Perry
Title: Gold Digger
Publisher: Antarctic Press

Comments

[slim-summer.livejournal.com]

Where can I get one of those? Much more space saving then having all my consoles in one room.

[q99]

Due to having (depending on model) C4, fusion explosives, or anti-matter, I believe all models of peebo are illegal in all fifty states and most countries :)

[crinos]

Don't care. Want one. Pay any price.

[slim-summer.livejournal.com]

Curses!!! Where do I sign the petition to legalise C4, fusion explosives, and anti-matter for public use?

[cainofdreaming]

You do realize that you just made them even more desirable to 99% of the populace here?

[q99]

I don't know where the idea of AI bombs with full personalities came from, but it's a good one :)

[icon_uk]

Actually I think it's malevolent and cruel.

Giving a being whose only purpose is to be destroyed at the whim of the one who created it, causing damage and potential loss of life of others, self awareness? What a spectacularly shitty thing to do.

[q99]

Oh, when they self-destruct their latest AI state is sent back to a safe mainframe, so they don't die from it, they just lose their bodies. At least for the advanced self-aware models with personalities.


Despite Peecee's worries, he'd be fine if he went boom, and one specific Peebo, Peebochu, has developed a cautious streak due to being on body number three due to enemy action taking out the first two (though he also has something of a heroic streak too since, ultimately, his friends don't have backups like he does).

[icon_uk]

They still have to live with the fact that they are created solely to destroy things and harm people. That's like breeding children solely to use them as Typhoid Mary style plague carriers. Is it supposed to make them feel better that they'll cause chaos, but they'll still be alive to feel rotten about it afterwards.

Sorry, I just cannot see any good reason to give a bomb self awareness, but no control over it's own destructiveness.

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Note the first panel of the second page, she turned off his bomb because Peecee wanted her to.

Only the dumber models are primarily bomb. There are two types- basic AI peebo who's program is focused on determined when it's ok to blow up and how best to do it, and Advance AI Peebo like Peecee.

He's a video game console (/general purpose computer and data carrier for the peebos), not purely a destructive device. All the AAI models are dual-use and... well, actually I intend to do another post on them ^^ Bomb is a backup system for them, for use only if they really need it.

The point of the original AI, and something the AAI models can do even better, is so they can figure out when it's safe without harming allies and only when it's worth doing, something a normal bomb can never do. They can decide if a situation is worth blowing up in, if the target is one they should take out (if a target doesn't have enough 'evil points,' they can ignore orders), and if there's any reason they shouldn't (like civies nearby).

Thus, while not eager to blow up, they've developed a mentality sorta like the Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell, are are quite willing to do it to protect an ally or if it's necessary to defeat a significant threat (the basic AI models just if ordered, but again, those ones aren't really self-aware, they just fine target, check criteria, and go boom). AAI don't blow up if there's another option, but they are given the choice to, basically.

[cmdr_zoom]

Check out Questionable Content. On the surface, their world looks a lot like ours... except they have "AnthroPCs", basically child-sized androids. (Who exist mostly to fill the role of the Wacky Talking Pet.)

The PersoComs of Chobits came first, of course.

[foxhack]

"OSX Emulator"?

You said it was a GAME CONSOLE, not a toaster!

(I kid, I kid. Sorta.)

[q99]

I wouldn't be surprised if she had old copies of Marathon on there :)

[halloweenjack]

FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!

[shanejayell]

SO CUTE!

^__^

[foxhack]

I think the Peebo is actually surprised because he knows where that game plug is going to go.

[halloweenjack]

Peebo and Pintsize from Questionable Content could be the greatest crossover/slash of all time.

[cmdr_zoom]

with poor Winslow off to the side, making the D: face.

[thandrak]

Can you post the one where PeeBri larps Mario?

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I'm planning on posting a few others, but mainly ones that showcase their personalities more than the gag ones :)

[midnightvoyager]

*cough*

Pet peeve: DUAL. Duel is two people fighting. Dual is two!

[q99]

Fixed for you :)

[crinos]

I love his reaction to the sun BTW.

[q99]

Yes, that's my favorite part too :)