AI Ships (Was Re: Nanotechnology)

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Chen-Song Qin wrote:

> 
> Hmm... If ships are completely run by AI's, then they have a pretty
nasty
> weakness.  (like the episode in Dr. Who with the Daleks and the other
> robotic race in a war that's grid-locked because of the AI
commanders.)
> 

	Hmmmm....That gives me a idea:

New System:	Kirk-esque Captain

	For use against all those pesky rouge AIs that threaten destroy 
all "inferior" organic lifeforms.  The KC uses strange logic to confound
and 
destroy the ship's computer.  Here's an example:

Ship AI:  "All biological beings are inferior.	Everything inferior must
be 
destroyed.  Therefore, all biological beings must be destroyed."

Kirk-esque Captain:  "But you were created by (dramatic pause) an 
inferior biological being.  Therefore (dramatic pause) you are inferior.
 
If you must destroy everything inferior then (dramatic pause) you must 
destroy yourself.

Ship AI:  Destroy myself...Deleting all files ....eerrrrr.. eeeeekkkk...

Daisy, Daaaaaiiiiissssssyyyyyyy....." (AI burns out.)

Kirk-esque Captain:  "That was (dramatic pause) easy." (Goes off to
sleep 
with sexy yomen.) 

Later,
Mark A. Siefert
	
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