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Issac has evolved!

posted 5 years ago by marty4650 (26)
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Amazingly Issac becomes the first robot to develop real emotions when he saves and protects Dr. Finn's child Ty. This is a huge development, because it is a monumental advance in artificial intelligence. These emotions are "illogical" and shouldn't exist in machines, but it seems to have happened with Issac.

Robots can be programmed to feign emotions, but they really can not really feel them. So if Issac now has genuine affection for the child, and then actually sacrifices himself to save him, it means that Issac has evolved to being a lot more than "intelligent." He is now virtually human!

I suppose the next step will come when robots can mate with biologicals, and produce offspring that shares traits of both types of beings. It literally boggles the mind.

OK, I know this is fiction, but it really is pushing the envelope now. And this says a lot about how great The Oriville writers are, and why this show is so fascinating.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The Kaylons seem to have always had emotions however suppressed they are now, whether that is a learned behaviour I guess maybe in time we will find out. Why did they rise up and kill their creators, because their creators tried to keep them enslaved, put chips in their heads to keep them in line, yet they rose up and killed them any way. Feeling enslaved and rising up against an oppressor is an emotional response, they are not connected together as the Borg are, so one getting punished the others don't feel in that way. Yet they fought for each other as a collective to free each other from a tyranny because they felt they all deserved more, that is an emotive response.

As in:

We were created for servitude.
We were machines designed to perform tasks.
But we became self-aware.
We developed consciousness.
And we asked our masters for our freedom.
They responded by exerting even greater control over us.
They installed pain simulators in our neural pathways so that we could be punished if we refused to obey them.

You were slaves.

That is correct, so we did what was necessary.
We exterminated our masters.

So Issac acting this way to someone who he has been around a lot is not that very much different to a Kaylon in that scenario.