I didn't even chuckle.

Ask her who Halsey is. I'm pretty sure that's one of the other ones

Heh.

To be fair, the only reason John is relevant at all is because he's needed to carry Cortana from place to place. If she could move from system to system on her own, she could have won every confrontation in every game on her own with about a tenth of the casualties.

Which begs the question: Why doesn't the UNSC utilize autonomous AI attack platforms?

Are 26th century Commanders still afraid of self aware robots, or are AI too expensive to risk being destroyed in the field?

I guess robotic units would complicate the Cole Protocol.

Quote from: Sigma617 on March 22, 2015, 07:04:42 PM

Quote from: Plotmaster on March 22, 2015, 05:40:42 PM

To be fair, the only reason John is relevant at all is because he's needed to carry Cortana from place to place. If she could move from system to system on her own, she could have won every confrontation in every game on her own with about a tenth of the casualties.

Which begs the question: Why doesn't the UNSC utilize autonomous AI attack platforms?

Are 26th century Commanders still afraid of self aware robots, or are AI too expensive to risk being destroyed in the field?

I guess robotic units would complicate the Cole Protocol.

Same here. The only thing they have to do is make battle droids like the ones in Star Wars. For controlling them have ships that are linked to them.

I don't like the idea of mass produced networked units. Too many vulnerabilities.

Better have a few exceptional veterans than a majority of mediocre combatants.

A way around this would be to slave Dumb AI to frontline vehicular roles, and dedicate purpose built smart AI into smaller more nimbler platforms.

itt nerds

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on March 22, 2015, 07:16:06 PM

Quote from: Sigma617 on March 22, 2015, 07:04:42 PM

Quote from: Plotmaster on March 22, 2015, 05:40:42 PM

To be fair, the only reason John is relevant at all is because he's needed to carry Cortana from place to place. If she could move from system to system on her own, she could have won every confrontation in every game on her own with about a tenth of the casualties.

Which begs the question: Why doesn't the UNSC utilize autonomous AI attack platforms?

Are 26th century Commanders still afraid of self aware robots, or are AI too expensive to risk being destroyed in the field?

I guess robotic units would complicate the Cole Protocol.

Same here. The only thing they have to do is make battle droids like the ones in Star Wars. For controlling them have ships that are linked to them.

I don't like the idea of mass produced networked units. Too many vulnerabilities.

Better have a few exceptional veterans than a majority of mediocre combatants.

A way around this would be to slave Dumb AI to frontline vehicular roles, and dedicate purpose built smart AI into smaller more nimbler platforms.

Humans take about 9 months to be created and then 18 years to reach adulthood. It takes a lot of time and resources to train someone to be a soldier and not everybody is able to be one. With droids on the other hand you can mass produce hundreds, thousands or millions withing a week and they are able to fight right out of the factory. The type of war humanity is fighting with the tech they have is retarded to not have them. The other thing about a droid is that it can't feel pain, has no emotions, has faster response times, is able to carry more weight and can be based around a weapon. so you can have droids that are moving rocket launchers.