[ He's glossing over it because he has to, but don't mistake that for it being something that doesn't affect him. Deeply. Especially when he can remember it so clearly, so easily. ]
Smart AI are rare, incredibly so, because of how difficult they are to make. They're basically completely sentient, and the only thing that stops them from being human is technicality. You can't create a mind like that from scratch -- the process is called Cognitive Impression Mapping, and it means that you base it of an existing actual human mind. Copying and retracing all the neural pathways of one.
There were ten, right? But the project . . . It was only ever given one AI to use. And you can't just copy a smart AI, not when the process to create one is so complicated already.
So they split it. [ A quiet, then, and he turns to look at Byerly, his expression surprisingly neutral, but his eyes hard, sharp. ] How would you split a human mind?
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Smart AI are rare, incredibly so, because of how difficult they are to make. They're basically completely sentient, and the only thing that stops them from being human is technicality. You can't create a mind like that from scratch -- the process is called Cognitive Impression Mapping, and it means that you base it of an existing actual human mind. Copying and retracing all the neural pathways of one.
There were ten, right? But the project . . . It was only ever given one AI to use. And you can't just copy a smart AI, not when the process to create one is so complicated already.
So they split it. [ A quiet, then, and he turns to look at Byerly, his expression surprisingly neutral, but his eyes hard, sharp. ] How would you split a human mind?