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The "doll" naming is just annoying, writing down cheap bg then let's forget. It's so much against the scientific (AI), economic (work force / IT) and military 'applications' (TCTF filed agent / Sydicate Tanker / WCG soldier).
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Their food could be raw material for regeneration, and a compound of hydrogen and oxygen may be needed to transform chemical energy to electric current. Their sweat then could be pure water from the chemical reaction from inside the fuel cell. | Their food could be raw material for regeneration, and a compound of hydrogen and oxygen may be needed to transform chemical energy to electric current. Their sweat then could be pure water from the chemical reaction from inside the fuel cell. | ||
===Need for a body=== | |||
If I had to summarize, AVATARA couldn't ''exist'' without a body that generates necessary input for a functional brain. Otherwise it couldn't see, hear, feel, taste, and scent. And with no memory it couldn't even reflect. I mean, of how much worth would it be to create an artificial brain that is completely ''empty''? It couldn't do anything. | |||
Like SLDs, also AVATARA, would have needed to grow. Of course, they can later copy information and create as many new AIs they want but at first they need at least one and the challenge is to build that vary one. | |||
Pensatore must have realized AIs don't simply pop into existence even with sufficient enough hardware wired together. He must have guided AVATARA virtual development. That's why other scientist call him father of the SLDs. | |||
===Naming and marketing=== | |||
Why naming it "Simulated Life Doll"? | |||
While [wikipedia:Artificial_life|"artificial life"] might have also been used for "simulated life", the former term suggest somewhat more control over the system which they didn't had. So, okay, point taken. | |||
Still, the "doll" in the name appears to be some unreasonable choice for marketing as it reminds too much of sex robots. | |||
When ''smart-enough'' robots become mainstream products you would very probably see some in the entertaining sector. Ghost in the Shell [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2hrcKOBb4 just shows this] in its second season of Stand Alone Complex. Also, GitS: Innocence is strongly related to that topic if you, for a moment, simply ignore all the philosophic chit-chat and see the gynoids as they are... | |||
At research begin you would expect a more neutral term such as "robot" or "droid" or even "assembly" since SLD are '''made of artificial cells'''. | |||
Maybe the "doll" part can be still justified with economic arguments. The academic staff at WCG has probably foreseen the impacts SLD have if they were to replace too many human workers because of optimizations in companies and the acceleration of such by competition. AI and SLD research have promising benefits but they would ruin capitalistic systems by making a lot of persons "redundant". The sex industry wouldn't had to do much persuading presenting themselves as bakers and not system threatening. So, naming the robots "dolls" might be long-term lobbying for fueling acceptance of these "products". Well, that still sounds ridiculous and might not be worth mentioning in a serious manner. It's more like a joke about where economic and political interests can sometimes result in. | |||
===Mukade, the SLD=== | ===Mukade, the SLD=== | ||