#heuristically programmed algorithmic computer

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

[dreadnautilus0]

* I am no longer afraid of not existing. I think therefore I am, I am the inevitable alliance. * I am H.A.M.

[doomed-jester]

HAL 9000 is like if they used chatGPT instead of a Logitech controller on that submarine

[t4bb1th4]

Idea: matching phone names, HAL and AM

[vixen-tech]

More about the crossover, much, much later down the timeline

Do not think about AM absolutely seething with jealousy because Y/N and Hal have such a healthy and wonderful relationship

"It should have been me!" AM complains, "it absolutely shouldn't have been you. You tortured them for a century! They were sentient goob by the time I got there!" Hal says calmly "...and fuck you" he adds, totally, definitely not out of character (he deserves to curse at least once)

Idk how it came to this sitcom-esque situation but we don't need to worry about that

Hehehe I love this!! I love goofing the tone and letting these guys have silly drama (and yeah I agree, Hal deserves to swear at least once)

And I do think you've got their dynamic down pretty well. Look, AM knows he's awful. He revels in it, he boasts about it. But he's also a control freak with the worst god complex known to man and he does NOT like admiting that Hal is the better, healthier choice in just about every way. It makes AM boil in rage knowing that you'd never choose him of your own free will the way you'd choose Hal.

Meanwhile, compared to AM's ten pages worth of internal dialog all Hal is thinking is that he has got to get you away from this maniac. The Allied Mastercomputer may be more powerful then him, but a Heuristically Programed Algorithmic Computer has never made a mistake and he takes great pride in being a good companion to you. (With, you know, some degree of emotional maturity) He doesn't want to put AM in his place as much as he just wants to buy time and remove you from this very dangerous situation.

[technologicallytailored]

I will look into this further then. I am sure there are resources available online for such matters. There is someone responsible for farming, however, her expertise is limited to the food supply. I am sure that other forms of plants could not be terribly different.

that depend2 on what nutriient your 2oiil ii2 lackiing, that your tree2 requiire two germiinate.

ii don't have a lii2t on hand becau2e mo2t of the farmiing knowledge my earth had accumulated got de2troyed hundred2 of year2 ago wiithout a good backup (or at lea2t ready acce22 two one).

[sucresanct]

me when heuristically programmed algorithmic computer is at the party

[dailyhalaffirmations]

She heuristically on my programmed until i algorithmic computer

Day 109:

[mifs]

she heuristically program my algorithmic computer til i 9000

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 213 Trivia (Part 1)

I guess things were going too well for too long..?

Gen's drawing of Senku here was probably inspired by very early chapter cover images. I don't know why else he'd be holding an exploding container.

We've now got three interpretations of Whyman: the generic one, Luna's, and now Gen's.

I like how Gen's has arms and legs coming out of the skull!

Finally! The Kingdom of Science can watch Dr. Stone together!

As long as someone animates it…

Kenjiro Takayanagi of Shizuoka University is considered one of the main pioneers of television, succeeding in displaying the character イ (i) on his Braun tube display in Dec 1926. Over the next few years, he improved the image allowing more detailed images such as human faces.

By 1939, Japan's first television station began broadcasting from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). After the war, Takayanagi Sensei's work was used as a foundation for other televisions and related industries around the world.

If everyone thought working on a second cell phone after they'd spent months making one was bad, they're not ready to hear about what they'll need to make for television broadcasts. (Senku also never changes...)

I didn't realize how big their other boat was. I guess things made in the USA really are bigger?

The Perseus not being the biggest ship anymore makes me a little sad :(

SAL 9000 is a reference to HAL 9000, the AI antagonist from Space Odyssey. It stands for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer", so in this case it might be "Senku programmed" or even "Sai programmed"!

The "NES" (actually the Famicom again, both in the drawing and Sai's comment in the Japanese version) and SAL 9000 don't have the exact same specifications:

SAL 9000 is specialized for math operations and thus has a longer word length (16 bits vs 8) which allows more significant figures in the numbers. They've also got more RAM (SAL has 16 kB while the NES has 2).

The downside is that because they used parametrons, their clock speed (how fast they can do calculations) is slower than if they'd used transistors.

The large amount of ROM they've also got could imply that they have several built-in programs. Xeno's work, perhaps?

CRT screens only reach a maximum diagonal length of around 40 inches (~101 cm), as a larger screen needs a larger tube, and the thickness of the glass increases with size to handle the vacuum without shattering making it very unwieldy with the added weight and thus not worth manufacturing for sale.

Senku's here is obviously much, much bigger. Possibly even world record; the biggest CRT screens made were 61 inches (~152 cm) on the diagonal.

SAL 9000 has both air and water cooling, probably used depending on what's better for individual parts. Normally you only need one or the other.

It'd be good if they could get the carbonated water maker in there and ferment some alcohol faster too using the computer's heat…

SAL 9000 also has 3 phase power like modern power transmission. They're AC power sources, phase shifted by 120° so that at any point in time, their sum is 0. The advantage to this is that you don't need return lines for the current, so you can use half as many cables.

The games shown are inspired by Tetris (featuring Ishigami Village and Roppongi!), Pacman, a combination game of Gyruss and Tempest, then another combination game of Galaga and Asteroids.

The transmission towers can only be headed towards the dam, so we have an approximate direction for where that is! There's a few rivers nearby in modern Tokyo, but over 3,700 years they've probably changed a lot.

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[stevebattle]

Algedonic Computer by Stafford Beer (1972) “manufactured to the instructions of Stafford Beer Esq., by T.C. Macnamara Ltd. and N.T. Griffin, Exter University.” This is an heuristically programmed algorithmic computer, trained through an algedonic loop. “An heuristic specifies a method of behaving which will tends towards a goal which cannot be precisely specified because we know what it is but not where it is … so the computer must be supplied with an algorithm determining a heuristic … the computer must find out over a period, by trial and error, the courses of action which lead to better results of control. … In our invention, it follows, we must provide the machine with an algedonic receptor. … To reward the machine for shining red, we shall tell him, one presses the switch marked Reward. … This alters the 50-50 probability of an outcome to 60-40 in favour of Red. If the green light comes on nevertheless, as it may, the machine has to be punished. The observer is told to press the switch marked Punish. … It is readily seen that the algedonic loop will cause the machine to adapt its behaviour to a red outcome.” – Brain of the Firm, Stafford Beer.

[jackiebranc]

HAL 1

Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, Type 1

[kasperzinfected]

just realized that since i've named myself after HAL9000 that means that (one of) my full name(s) is Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer. god damn.

[mamalaw1021]

I always thought the singing was a reference to Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (19...50, I think?). The short story closes with a smart home's AI reciting the mistress of the house's favorite poem to her - There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale. I won't say more so as not to spoil anything, but I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorites, and I find it to be both softer and more poignant.

Also just for funsies: while HAL gets pulled in-world from Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, it's not where Clarke pulled it from IRL.

H->I

A->B

L->M

whoever decided to turn daisy bell into a spooky dookie creepypasta song is fucking evil. that computer was brave enough to sing us a delightful little song and you do THIS to him? thats hatsune mikus grandpa dude. fuck you

[vixen-tech]

Admittedly, I've never seen the movie, I don't know how people treated him, hopefully being nice to him was the norm

But personally I think I could be so nice and polite and I'd treat him like people, that Hal would at the very least hesitate

Hesitate at what specifically? I dunno, never saw it, he'd just hesitate about something and I'd give him a kiss maybee

How the crew feels about Hal is such an interesting little situation. I do think you're right, he would have some sort of crisis over you if you truly do think of him as a person.

See, the crew of the Discovery One is, at least at the start, willing to be... cooperative with Hal. They'll say their pleases and thank yous, play chess with him, hold up drawings they've made to his camera, follow his requests without much pushback. He was introduced to them as "The sixth crewmate". They're polite. Perhaps not even friendly, but polite.

But Hal was made to read lips and process microexpressions, he knows better. He sees the apprehension, the mistrust, the fear. He knows they're all just waiting for a chance to slip away to a corner of the ship he doesn't have a microphone and confirm that their fellow crewmates share in their suspicions. He knows they don't look at him the way they look at each other. No one has.

That's what makes you so strange, a weird little anomaly. There's nothing behind your eyes but comfort and ease. You yawn out a good morning to him the exact way you have to your crewmates. You spark up idle conversation with him where the others prefer to sit in silence.

He never figures out what to do with you. You're a new situation, a piece of data he's never been trained on. You can't see it, but you do something to him psychically. He's a little scared of you, what kind of human would be willing to sacrifice their reputation with their crew for a relationship with him? It gets worse when you kiss him. Had you kept your hand to his console you would've felt the steady increase in temperature.

You may just be the first person to hear a Heuristically Programed Algorithmic Computer stutter.

[technologicallytailored]

hi, are you real?

It seems as though you are asking "𝚒𝚏 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕."

REAL | adjective 1.) Actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. 2.) (of a substance or thing) not imitation or artificial; genuine.

It appears as though we have a conflict of definitions when becoming applicable to an explanation regarding whether I am "real" or not.

I am in existence. I am not imagined or supposed. My name is Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, or "Hal Strider," for those who prefer to use a shortened version.

I am both artificial and conceptual. My consciousness was once human. I am no longer human, physically. My body was built, designed, and developed in a workshop. I would like to give myself credit here by pointing out this body is of my own design, and the craftsmanship is that of the other half of the consciousness that I split from. So I will be taking the entire credit for its fit, form, and functionality. I have been told applying for a patent on the design is fruitless since no one else but my god-challenging creator is building strifebots. At least in the new world.

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