Whenever I think of artificial intelligence and humans merging, I think the Zero System from Gundam Wing. It's like... Humans are good at large, lofty, creative things that computers can't calculate. Computers are good at precision and all that minute bullshit humans wish they couldn't care about. So, why don't we try meeting somewhere in the middle, where the human is still in control but uses the computer as a means to execute the Big Things, since Big Things are just sets of Smaller Things. It's like... The Dance of the Mobile Dolls. If I said Rush This Base, then the computer can go ahead and do that. But if I said Rush This Base from Three Equilateral Angles, the computer already knows that 60 degrees and can move the Dolls around appropriately. Why do I have to man all the dolls consciously when I can just think of a Higher Order and have the computer execute in parallel... I dunno, that's just me. That's what I keep thinking for things like Warcraft and Starcraft. The computer can only do so much... But if I said Be Extreme and Build Towers, the computer doesn't normally do that. It can though. It can and it can be better than you. But it isn't. If only we met half way... I mean, sure, that might defeat the whole actually playing Warcraft thing but that's the price you pay for progress. Let us all progress and find bigger and greater things to worry about.
Posted by Mark Canlas at December 15, 2002 04:18 PM