Created Friday 02 August 2013

Only a few years after the birth of the first AI, a revolution in autonomous robots forever changed the way that they would operate and be perceived. According the computer theoreticians and literati, it isn’t true artificial intelligence, but it’s not a strictly linear pro-gram-driven matrix, either. The Dillon lattice, pseudo-AI unit is the means by which most robots function. They aren’t fully sentient, but they are intelligent, able to make complex de-cisions on their own. These robots have only limited emotional responses, programmed by their creators, and they have no real ability to comprehend the emotions of sentients. Truly independent robots controlled by free intelligences remain a goal, particular-ly in the StarMech Collective, but they are not a fact. So-called “rogue robots,” which diso-bey their owners and operate on their own, are the product of faulty or corrupted pro-gramming, not true sentience.