So AIs that literally transcend beyond the creator's expectations, develop living, breathing and thinking personas and then step out of the goddamn game is the worst example? And I'm merely footnoting here, given over the course of Star Ocean series, the way their world develops and evolves is correlative with our OWN [tornado fang]ing world. Some genius made a world that exists on the level of our own by WRITING [tornado fang]ing CODE.
Right. This discussion is going in utter circles. I'm done, I've got enough issues today than to circle jerk all over the thread right now. Someone let me know when there is an update relevant to the game released.
Herp Derp. ADA was pretty awesome, admittedly.
Yes, they're pretty bad examples. See, there's a kind of impossibility layer which sci-fi really can't cross without either having to make fun of it, or look stupid.
See the [parasitic bomb] on Doctor Who? They make fun of it all the time. But if they took it seriously, it would be stupid.
Star Ocean 3 took it seriously. It was stupid. Virtual worlds have been done plenty of times in sci-fi. The way it was done in Star Ocean brought nothing interesting and refreshing to the table, and it was pretty much uninteresting. Wooooooow, someone coded a realistic world. Great. Wow, everyone's an AI but nobody knew it in the first place. And they, um... achieved consciousness and legitimate existance and [parasitic bomb]. Who the hell writes this crap? Along with the uninteresting and amazingly stupid dialogue and poor characters, who even cares?
And yeah, ADA was good, but she was pretty much a run-of-the-mill regular AI. If not for the game she's in, she wouldn't have much importance or charm in the first place.