06-05-2023, 04:23 AM
(05-31-2023, 08:52 PM)Worldtree Wrote: Welcome!
Thank you very much!
Since then, I've been reading some more articles and I've come across a few things :
- My fictional world does have an AI secondary character whose job is to preserve Earth's ecological equilibrium... and I named her Gaia. My own Gaia is pretty different from OA's. Using OA vocabulary, she's a superturing, sentient AI, living in a virch dedicated to hosting sentient AIs like her. She has little direct or indirect control on the physical world. She used to be a lot more involved but she managed to implement a metastable ecosystem and now she just acts as a consultant to help governments maintain this state. It would seem logical to anyone that if the Western World created an ecological AI, they would name it Gaia. (I remember pondering changing her name to Prithvi in the past, the Hindu counterpart of Gaia, as my setting is culturally mixed.)
- Ascension is a thing for AIs in my setting, although only a few of them have achieved it. (AIs are omnipresent in everyday life, they're all turingrade, nonsentient programs. A sentient AI is called an AC, which stands for Artificial Consciousness. AIs can ascend to sentience, which is very unlikely but sometimes happens; generally ACs are born created from AC volition. A handful of ACs have ascended, and all but one have kept contact since then). I'm not sure yet how I'm going to call that in French but the translations of the words I have are "Second Awakening", "Revelation", and "Transmorphosis".
- Transcendent Burn-out Theory: I didn't think of that one, but it would probably help answering a few questions I had about my story. (This is the kind of situation that makes me think quoting Orion's Arm in my credits is the right thing to do while still feeling somewhat guilty about it.)
(I'm trying to keep explanations about my setting short, as I don't want to bore anyone with that stuff.)
I've also found beautiful, very inspiring things. I don't want to use them but I'm really glad, Orion's Arm is a real imagination unlocker.
