My definition includes programmable, so an analogue circuit built for one purpose falls outside the definition. If mechanical clocks are included in "computers" then stuff like single relays and centrifugal governors become computers and a mouse trap suddenly becomes a stationary combat drone
Well, you know how to fix that, now don't you?It's not the best turbine fuel but it does work. Kerosene is better, generally. Vegetable oil also works surprisingly well if you thin it down a little, and of course biodiesel will work nicely.
However, we may possibly be getting a little off topic 🤔
Let us be honest.
There are combat robots and drones in Mass Effect.
Robot
Robots are mobile synthetic units. They are deployed by the batarian army on the Ahn'Kedar Orbital Platform to support their assault. Robots have a relatively strong health and shields bar while they can also inflict a good amount of damage. You should deal carefully with those. Like others...masseffect.fandom.com
LOKI Mech
The Hahne-Kedar-manufactured LOKI Mech is a bipedal humanoid security robot designed for security detail and guard duty in locations where manpower is an issue, or where the use of organics for "around the clock" shifts is unfeasible. Initially used exclusively by the Alliance for colony guard...
Disruption Drone
The Disruption Drone is a CAT6 unit encountered in Mass Effect 3. It is deployed by CAT6 Specialists. See also: Drones Offensive Once deployed, the drone will move slowly and seek out targets, usually at their last known position. When Shepard or a squadmate enters its detection range the drone...
I know that apparently GPS units are required to stop functioning above a certain altitude or speed, for just this reason.
... this sounds familiar but I can't quite remember where it's from, name or link please?
Start here. Then follow the name 'Systerminator' through the threadmarks.
yup, for the record the Geth is what started this whole AI phobia. But instead of sending in a turain fleet or something to knock the Geth out the Council decided it was smarter to kick the creator race out and banish them to slow extinction than risk losing ships to a presumably hostile AI force, that became the second galactic bogyman for the next 300 years.
Sure - the space fleet side of things was called Firestorm Armada, and there's a reboot in progress by the company that bought the rights after Spartan Games went under. My faction was called the Terran Alliance, and the other part of their 'hat' was that though their designs were outdated and somewhat fragile structurally, they were the faction that had doubled down on shields once they were developed, refitting their old ships to have more shields than even the faction that originally developed shielding technology, which lead to them being one of the tougher factions, so long as their shields worked correctly (shields in this game worked somewhat like point defence usually does, in that rather than ablative hit points, you rolled your shield rating against most incoming attacks and blocked them if you did well enough. Combined with the exploding dice mechanic, I once watched a frigate shrug off most of an enemy battleship's firepower on some really ridiculously hot rolls).
Wait... There was a topic?
My understanding was that the AI, Wasn't a true AI, more like a VI with delusions. Therefore, when tasked with finding a Why and how to stop it, It couldn't understand 'illogical' things like greed, irrational or religious hated, or indeed any of the million and one other reasons that being's fight (i've seen people almost come to blows over SHOES, so...) As a result, it ws left with a solution of 'organics fight'. everything that happened after - including the reapers - came about due to conflicts between it's 'end wars' and preserve life - at least initially. Add in rampancy, and it's delusions became subscriptions.
I'm pretty sure that Tali gets all defensive in ME1 about how the Geth gaining sentience was an accident, and the Quarians weren't trying to do anything illegal. Which implies that the AI phobia and anti-AI laws were already a thing before the Morning War.
the issue is that we have no evidence of what triggered that law of any sort. Hell, we know that no one had any records of the past cycle beyond a few scattered technological storage devices. I guess everyone ended up terrified of their sci fi stories and decided that it was too much of a risk to make AI.
It is indeed, and now I have no idea how I couldn't spell it at the time.
Don't worry, it's a
No, the real trick is to get the Army, Marines, or Navy to fund your project to create a low cost 'Light Tactical Cruise Missile'. Or at least that's what I would do.
But then you definitely don't get to put the design on thingiverse and publish the source code under the GPL…
