CT's lip quirks and she huffs an empty sort-of laugh. Isn't that what all power would like of its citizens, indeed—she likes this one, Ripley seems like she has a good head on her shoulders.
She turns to walk her way out of the station.
"They're strictly controlled. Or at least, they're meant to be." She doesn't elaborate on that point, sidestepping easily back into a more technical explanation: "We need them to do the kind of work that both humans and Dumb AI are too limited to handle. Slipspace plotting, running multiple complex computer functions at once, combat analysis in the blink of an eye... they think faster than a human mind will ever be capable of. But they're entirely digital, holograms running off crystalline data matrixes. They're not supposed to get bodies. So. Ordinarily, there's very little they can do without human infrastructure and they're always decommissioned after seven years function, where their processes start becoming more... unpredictable."
Everything that happened at the Project is unprecedented. It never should have happened. No AI should ever have had the power to hand-deliver a pair of tomahawks into her soft tissue, but the Director never did care about the rules.
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CT's lip quirks and she huffs an empty sort-of laugh. Isn't that what all power would like of its citizens, indeed—she likes this one, Ripley seems like she has a good head on her shoulders.
She turns to walk her way out of the station.
"They're strictly controlled. Or at least, they're meant to be." She doesn't elaborate on that point, sidestepping easily back into a more technical explanation: "We need them to do the kind of work that both humans and Dumb AI are too limited to handle. Slipspace plotting, running multiple complex computer functions at once, combat analysis in the blink of an eye... they think faster than a human mind will ever be capable of. But they're entirely digital, holograms running off crystalline data matrixes. They're not supposed to get bodies. So. Ordinarily, there's very little they can do without human infrastructure and they're always decommissioned after seven years function, where their processes start becoming more... unpredictable."
Everything that happened at the Project is unprecedented. It never should have happened. No AI should ever have had the power to hand-deliver a pair of tomahawks into her soft tissue, but the Director never did care about the rules.