Sonic gets possessed by some sort of malicious entity and the second person to figure it out was Tails.
The first person to figure it out was Metal Sonic, who noted that his walk cycle was off by 3.8 centimeters in a four-frame clip caught on a fuzzy Eggnet camera. But of course, who listens to that dumb robot anyway?
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[Cueball typing at a computer on a desk with another computer on the other side of a divider.]
Caption: Turing test extra credit: Convince the examiner that he's a computer.
Cueball: You know, you make some really good points.
Cueball: I'm... not even sure who I am anymore.
Thanks to my dear sister, @get-shortcaked (Blithe) for helping me with the layout.
Turing Test debacle + Smidge of Hermann angst woahh
In the novelization of Pacific Rim, there is a section with the following.
" Gottlieb was soldering together a robot can I build an intelligence that will pass a Turing test and if I could of course I can I must never say anything about it until it is done or Father will "
This suggests that young Hermann had planned to create and build a robot/artificial intelligence that could potentially pass the Turing Test.
The Turing test is, as the Oxford Language site explains, " a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both. "
And so me and Blithe went down the RABIT hole (pun intended) and we came up with the idea that Hermann did actually attempt at cracking the Turing Test (around early 2000s), but failed. He later used the model for his personal use as some sort of friend/adviser. However, he quickly dropped it as he slowly felt that the mere concept of talking to a robot about his woes to be embarrassing.
A.L.A.N is a model that takes heavy inspiration from E.L.I.Z.A, who was originally programmed in 1966, the first 'artificial intelligence' to attempt the Turing Test. Like E.L.I.Z.A, A.L.A.N is programmed to have the personality of a psychotherapist.
Also, A.L.A.N, Alan Turing. The name was Blithe's idea.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: people are making a mountain out of a molehill with the "Eggman asking for Sage's pronouns" thing. If you SERIOUSLY think that this
is indicative of Eggman extending an awareness gender politics towards Sage, then you are BRAIN ROTTED by modern internet discourse and I question your library of media reference. Anthropomorphizing an artificial intelligence by applying gendered pronouns to it is one of the most basic conventions of the "what if robots, but people?" genre of story telling. You don't even need to be a sci fi hound who's read Asimov like me to get this, this is so basic it's even found in network cable programming like Star Trek TNG and Elementary.
Eggman isn't "respecting her preferred pronouns" or whatever weird shit twitter thinks is a mark of acceptable morality. He's starting to see her as a Person and not "just" a Machine. If you cannot comprehend that then I'm sorry but you are illiterate.