[ Angel pauses with her lips closed a moment as she takes in what he says. ]
There was only one other race if you want to put it that way in my world - I mean plenty of alien life, but it is more like... dogs, cats, horses, that sort of thing, but from different planets.
Those aliens were Eridians, and they've long since disappeared.
But apart from that, no, programming intelligence is perfectly possible and it is true intelligence, not a drone. They think, feel, learn, choose, change, fall in love, experience heart break, develop their own personality long, long after human construction, they have outlived most of their creators. They're highly valued, every high-end warship has one and they fight to get the best ones. But others also take more mundane paths. I know of one AI that became a tour guide for a water planet.
It's actually a huge problem sometimes because obviously we like our drones to be very capable of independent tasks, but if you over program them.... they gain true intelligence gradually with your basic building blocks, and before you know it, you have an uprising in your beer bottling factory. Or worse, they started dating each other and now they want a divorce so you're trying to grapple with sentience protection legislation and meet your deadlines for beer production and divorce proceedings.
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There was only one other race if you want to put it that way in my world - I mean plenty of alien life, but it is more like... dogs, cats, horses, that sort of thing, but from different planets.
Those aliens were Eridians, and they've long since disappeared.
But apart from that, no, programming intelligence is perfectly possible and it is true intelligence, not a drone. They think, feel, learn, choose, change, fall in love, experience heart break, develop their own personality long, long after human construction, they have outlived most of their creators. They're highly valued, every high-end warship has one and they fight to get the best ones. But others also take more mundane paths. I know of one AI that became a tour guide for a water planet.
It's actually a huge problem sometimes because obviously we like our drones to be very capable of independent tasks, but if you over program them.... they gain true intelligence gradually with your basic building blocks, and before you know it, you have an uprising in your beer bottling factory. Or worse, they started dating each other and now they want a divorce so you're trying to grapple with sentience protection legislation and meet your deadlines for beer production and divorce proceedings.