mayfield_rpg | Data Recording 013: It's like a dream come true! Well, if AIs could dream...

Action A | 1450 Mitchell Road | Saturday morning

[Tachikoma spent most of yesterday doing what it usually does, poking it's cannon port in anything and everything that looks new and interesting! In fact, there's a bunch of new flowers everywhere! And clearly flowers can not be harmful to Tachikoma. Well, again anyway. Though it would be a good idea to confirm that by experimenting with these flowers, so there's no reason NOT to pick and analyze them! Unfortunately it couldn't really find anything odd about the flowers, other than it has no record of them. Then again, Tachikoma doesn't really have a very comprehensive database of flowers as it doesn't come up much at its job. Still it went to its recharge station feeling that it gained some new information that day!

And then it woke up today. Woke up with a yawn and a stretch.

...Wait, woke up? Stretched? YAWNED?!]

Oh wow!! I'm human!! This is great!!

[Yep. Tachikoma is human and is jumping for joy at this fact. Jumping for joy without any clothes on. Someone might want to point that out to the new human.]

Action B | Anywhere | Later that day

[There is an extremely hyper (and clothed) girl running around town with the biggest smile on her face. Sometimes running around in circles. She is going up to people, shaking hands, hugging people, and just reveling in the fact that not only is she human, but this presents a whole bunch of NEW EXPERIENCES for her.]

This is so great! I can feel things with my skin! And smell things! Oh! I bet I can eat things too! Being human is so different!!

((OOC Note: I'll be using my usual icons, but for reference sake, here and here are what Tachikoma probably looks like right now.))

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

No, no, I don't think they're manifestations of problems with your AI! Your AI is just fine!

[Pause.]

I know these things! I'm a scientist!

[Tachikoma seems to have calm down now.]

You really think so?

...Have you had practice with advanced computational AIs? Do you think you could help me with a diagnostic when I'm back in my normal body?

Sure, I think so!

[Ted pauses to think for a bit.]

Well, I've helped the Red Tornado out with his diagnostics a few times, I don't see why I couldn't help you!

Thanks, I'd feel a lot better if I had a second person take a look at those readouts!

...Who's Red Tornado?

He's the Justice League's resident android. You'd probably like him. He usually handles most of his diagnostics on his own; I didn't have to do much.

Oh neat, an android! So he has an advance AI like I do? And you got to help him run a diagnostics? I'm sure things will be similar enough for you to help me with mine then!

Yeah, his AI's pretty advanced--he's actually at a point at which he wants to be human. I'm not sure how similar your AIs are, but I'm sure I could work with you!

He is! That sounds great! The other Tachikomas and I always wondered if we could become human, but we're not sure since we still lack ghosts.

Ghosts?

Oh, you mean souls, don't you? I think a lot of us would like to think that somehow, Red Tornado has one...and I don't know, I'd like to think that anything with as much personality as you have would have one, too.

Where I'm from, we usually refer to them as ghosts as that's the essential part that makes a human human, no matter how much they replace their body with cybernetics and not everyone likes to use the term soul as it has a more religious connotation.

Unfortunately it really is a something that is hard to quantify or prove even in humans, let alone AIs or other machines.

Hey, same thing, different word. Works for me.

Yeah, it's...usually, proving that is difficult. Especially when some humans behave in ways that suggest they're sorely lacking in that department.

Oh, but see, that's the nice thing about a ghost! Once a human is born with one, there's really nothing they can do to get rid of it! So even if they act like they don't have one, they still technically do!

It's too bad more of them don't realize they still have one. The world would probably be a nicer place.

That may be true, but at least there's things like Section 9 that work hard to stop things from getting worse or out of hand!

And that's great! Every world needs its own team of heroes.

Oh, we're not actually heroes. Section 9 is a government agency, like a specialized police or task force! But our wide range of skills means we perform all kinds of duties!

Hey, police can be heroes, too. Don't sell yourself short!

That's nice of you to say, though sometimes its hard to see some of the tangible benefit we provide. A lot of our missions are classified, but it is to protect society at large or else the Major wouldn't have us do it.

Sometimes, that's just the way it works.

It seems that way alright, but at least we help out and learn so many new things in the process!

Exactly!

Oh, I just realized I've been keeping you here talking all this time! Were you trying to get somewhere? Would you like me to put you down?

Ah, well, I was just trying to get back to my house. I figure I could stay there until this wore off or I found a cure or something, y'know?

Would you mind giving me a lift? I'm way less likely to get stepped on this way!

Sure! I love being helpful!

Which way is your house?

That way!

[Have a tiny chipmunk point.]

I live over on Ricardo.

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