Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Armitage III]]'': The entry in [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] states: "The androids from Armitage III are actually ranked according to how human they are. "Firsts" are basically non-human robots, "Seconds" are androids, and the "Thirds" are so close to human they can get ''pregnant''." Fourths are some sort of really odd plant-like creatures intended to be a sentient species all on their own, although they seem to be lacking identifiable humanoid intelligence.

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'', [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] is a more or less average human-intelligence type robot with notable hacking skills, memory, and computing speed. Her master Evangeline has other [[Robot Maid|robotic servants]], most of whom seem to fall between brick and human levels; they appear to have a certain level of self awareness, but not nearly to Chachamaru's degree.

 

 

* There are several different types of robots in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series.

** Swatbots and Badniks are of the Brick category, always taking orders from Robotnik/Eggman and stricly attack fodder against characters like Sonic.

* Averted by {{spoiler|Victor Mancha}} of ''[[Runaways]]'', who seems to be slightly more intelligent than your average teenager.

** This is something that [[Just Bugs Me]]: he is a cyborg (unless he's more of a [[Terminator]]).

** The series uses also a very interesting take at the "ridiculously human robot" concept: the first generation of autonomous androids was built without the "three laws" - relying on a distinct set of security limiters - and ended having almost completely "human" minds, so humans that they started strikes in order to obtain paychecks, holidays and respect for their rights. All the owners, then, sued the company that made them, that as a consequently went bankrupt.

*** Later, one of them tried to hide the "human nature" of he and his brethren in order to not be treated as a human... and forced to pay taxes.

 

 

* Averted in ''[[Knight Rider]]''. KITT is smarter than any human, but not indecipherably intelligent. Most of his unrealism comes from being [[Ridiculously Human Robot|ridiculously human.]]

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (reboot): Skinjobs are as smart as humans, if not smarter. Raiders are trained pack animals, and Centurions are on the cusp of sentience.

** It's indicated that the Centurions ''were'' completely sentient, but the skinjobs went and lobotomized them as an ironic echo of the original robot rebellion. When the restrictions are removed by skinjob Cylon activists, they along with the Raiders return to sentience, and are not very happy at all.

** From [[The Movie]]: "His coat is burgundy. This is teal." Some of the skinjobs are [[Too Dumb to Live]].

* Averted in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. [[A Is|Holly]] has an IQ of 6,000 ([[Take That|"the same I.Q. as 6000 P.E. teachers"]]), but his centuries of isolation has left him "[[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|a bit]] [[The Mad Hatter|peculiar]]."

* The Terminators in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' fall somewhere between Average Joe and Nobel. Generally, they operate within certain baseline programming but are given immense leeway in how to complete their objectives, and show impressive planning and intellect when it comes to this. For example, a Terminator by the name of Myron Stark is sent back with a mission to assassinate the governor of California in 2009 at a specific location inside a specific building. Instead, he is accidentally sent back to the 1920s, in the process killing the man who would build the tower where he would carry out the assassination. At this point, Stark proceeds to build the tower himself by first robbing banks, establishing his own realty company and construction firms, and even assassinates the heads of a rival company to buy up all their lands, including the land where the tower would be built—and then built the tower himself. Then he hides himself inside the tower for a good sixty years until the day of the planned assassination.

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* Averted in ''[[Freefall]]'', where individual machines vary from non-sentient trucks or toys to self-aware but fairly stupid robotic moving devices to robots with the capacity for significantly innovative and creative thought. Dvorak is creative enough to be dangerous to himself and others, almost on the level of [[Discworld|Leonard of Quirm]]. Florence herself is almost certainly more intelligent that most humans, but not so much as to be off the scale. Some AI even modify themselves. There are no god-like robots—yet—since most of them are built by the lowest bidder, though.

* Averted in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' where a scale known as the Henke/Ventura scale is used to measure the "intelligence" of an AI—TAG, an AI optimized for running a starship who is human to sub-human in most other fields, is a 2.5, while Ennesby, who is capable of above-human capabilities across the board, is a 4. Regardless of their scale number, all AIs have advantages humans do not, such as near-instant reaction times.

** Ennesby also provides a good example of how the scale can change when the hardware (or programming) of the AI is altered, making their intelligence on a true sliding scale.