Re: AI in FT (was Re: Be gentle...)

I like Allan's assertion that an AI should take up less
mass/space/resources 
than biological crew, but I have seen the future through the visionary
eyes 
of Glenn Larson and Battlestar Galactica, where it took three AIs to run
a 
fighter comparable to a human-piloted single-man attack craft.	As we
can 
see. AIs that build other AIs get caught up in constraints like having
an 
atmosphere such that they can communicate with each other vocally, in 
carefully designing the displays of their spacecraft so that the AIs are
not 
overcome by a flood of combat data, and designing controls which can be 
manipulated easily and accurately by robots with rubber fingers.

Sorry.	I just ran a demo game yesterday, and the only participant
really 
wanted my sage recollections of this television show he'd heard of but
was 
too young to have watched... 
Tom + Dana McCarthy