Eastiling
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I suspect the need for AI here is more for prototyping and advancing technologies that are NOT based on Element Zero. By himself, or even with the aid of other humans, that would take decades and with the need to keep humanity from becoming dependent on the substance, as the Reapers plan, will not be easy. Any tech he tries to implement to combat Element Zero dependence will need to approach parity or better. With a Smart AI, his own tech base and more time he could produce those results without the Dumb AI making things drag.
I don't think the MC is supposed to be dumb enough to try to build an AI capable of knife fighting the Reapers. They are synthetic gods by those standards. It would be, frankly, ridiculous. Like putting a hamster in a cage with a tiger. Ding Ding! Or should I say, Dinner!
No, he needs to help to get his ideas in a workable, sellable, format. It needs to happen quickly and despite his skills, he is NOT a ship designer. Implanted knowledge does not make a chef a GOOD chef. If he wants his tech to compete with a functional, available, alien spaceship and the existing FTL network then ever advantage is getting real working alternatives out will be crucial. Speed will matter. Once the Alliance adopts and begins wide scale adoption of Element Zero... the push back against anything else will be massive. The train will have left the station and pulling it back will cost invested parties far too much to want to stop.
The MC is on a clock. He needs to get his name out, which he's done, and he needs to get alternatives ready ASAP, or at least, the theory crafting done to put the idea of them out there. Get the research started, the teams in progress. The idea that not copying the aliens... everything... would be for the best, and 'This is how we do that. Our way.'
Phew. Anyhow!
Great chapters! Looking forward to more!
I don't think the MC is supposed to be dumb enough to try to build an AI capable of knife fighting the Reapers. They are synthetic gods by those standards. It would be, frankly, ridiculous. Like putting a hamster in a cage with a tiger. Ding Ding! Or should I say, Dinner!
No, he needs to help to get his ideas in a workable, sellable, format. It needs to happen quickly and despite his skills, he is NOT a ship designer. Implanted knowledge does not make a chef a GOOD chef. If he wants his tech to compete with a functional, available, alien spaceship and the existing FTL network then ever advantage is getting real working alternatives out will be crucial. Speed will matter. Once the Alliance adopts and begins wide scale adoption of Element Zero... the push back against anything else will be massive. The train will have left the station and pulling it back will cost invested parties far too much to want to stop.
The MC is on a clock. He needs to get his name out, which he's done, and he needs to get alternatives ready ASAP, or at least, the theory crafting done to put the idea of them out there. Get the research started, the teams in progress. The idea that not copying the aliens... everything... would be for the best, and 'This is how we do that. Our way.'
Phew. Anyhow!
Great chapters! Looking forward to more!