2012-07-31, 05:00 | Link #641 |
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Yui was a program designed to help with player's emotions or something in times of turmoil or crisis, but when SAO started she was strictly forbidden from interacting with players. The Morning Dew Girl side story explains it all in detail. While you could technically classify her as a non-player character when Kirito and Asuna first meet her, she is not a regular NPC and is one of the programs helping the Cardinal system. It would be more appropriate to call her a highly intelligent quasi-sentient program. Later on she basically attains full sentience once Kirito builds the machine or whatever that brings her into the real world. At that point she ceased to be artificial and became something closer to Data or those medical holodrams from Star Trek.
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Not to mention that she learns from her experiences and develops over time, gaining personality, desires, dreams, and other very human emotions. She even gets confessed to in-game (ALO) and goes to look for the guy IRL and finds out it was an old guy who had just died, his daughter talks about him with Yui for a while (apparently Yui reminded the old guy of his late wife when she was young) and she is brought to tears while thinking to herself that this sense of loss is what it truly means "to love". Last paragraph happened in ME3 Ceramic Heart, although I am not positive if it is truly canon or not. Regardless, it is hardly NPC behavior. The last page of ME3 Yui also says several verbose phrases one after another that reminded me of Kuroneko from OreImo who also says grandiose things like that in a way very similar: Lost possibilities; A branch universe beyond reach; Along with obtaining something, losing that something is naturally inevitable; the very moment we meet someone was the time we started towards our farewells. Sure it was a sad but I got a good laugh out of it since I could totally hear Kuroneko/Kana Hanazawa saying it Last edited by styr; 2012-07-31 at 05:26. |
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2012-07-31, 05:30 | Link #643 | |
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2012-07-31, 06:53 | Link #646 |
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sry was stuck in a business meeting... geez...
You call her "not a regular NPC" that means she is a NPC... just not a regular one. Like Pinoccio he was a puppet... just not a regular one. There is just not such a thing like "AI Player". You can be a Player or a NPC. Thats about it... I am saying that she is an AI - but AI has to be - and ever will be a NPC Just like in the "Three Laws of Robotics". The robots learnd (like Yui) and begann to act not like they should (like Yui) and then they had a free will (like Yui). After all they learnd and decided on their own - are they no robots now?
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You know DOTA? Of course you do(most people if not all know it). In DOTA, there are enemies settings for the opposition force(if you're playing solo or just have a free spot you can add those called "Computers") that is an AI. On the other hand, the item seller, recipe seller, and such are NPCs. The AIs can attack or use skill on its own call. While Item seller and such can't do that. They only do the scripted thing on their program such as: they can't attack or use skill. AIs have a free will to decide their course of action which doesn't exist in NPCs
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2012-07-31, 07:24 | Link #648 | |
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Do you call Siri (iphone) a NPC? do you call automated phone systems NPCs? do you call the Roomba vacuums NPCs? You have a serious misunderstanding/application of the term NPC here. |
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2012-07-31, 07:34 | Link #649 | |
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DOTA "Computer" enemys are NPC's... Non-Player Characters. Thats exactly my point. If they are enemy's or even monster doesn't change the fact that those are NPC. We call them "Mobs" or whatever but they are all just NPC's.
btw. the dota ai doesn't learn at all... so it is nothing like Yui. I thought your point is "she is beyond anything... the script... the rules - thats why she is no NPC" But your point is NPC are stupid and have no AI... which they have... a really simple one - but they have. Quote:
edit: Awww I see your point AI != NPC... of course. But an AI who plays a game = NPC.
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2012-07-31, 07:40 | Link #650 | |
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You realize that outside of that one short story(where she's more of a part of the Cardinal System than anything else), her entire existence in the SAO universe is that of a stand-alone AI on Kirito's computer? That entirely predicates on how much "humanity" you assign to AIs like Yui. Same thing goes for the inhabitants of Underworld in Alicization. While they're certainly AIs, they could hardly be considered NPCs. |
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2012-07-31, 07:47 | Link #651 | |
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You stick to absolutes like "Player" and "NPC" but both of those terms are only truly applicable in today's settings, and not so much in the SAO-verse. AI players are impossible now in 2012 but in the future it may very well happen, which is one of the things SAO touches upon. How far would an independent AI need to go before you would acknowledge their existence as a player? You keep bringing up Pinocchio, but I don't think you truly understand the message behind that story. Pinocchio is a story about lies, exaggeration and fabricating stories. Pinocchio never truly broke free of the chains holding him down, as the technology was never there to begin with. He was set up from the beginning to fail, to prove an aesop. Unlike Pinocchio, Yui has transcended her original programming and became something new - an AI player, moving on her own whims, inclination, impulses, etc. Last edited by Daniel E.; 2012-07-31 at 15:52. Reason: Pointless bit removed! |
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2012-07-31, 07:49 | Link #652 |
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@XaXa you really have a serious kind of misunderstanding....
AIs have the ability to Make judgement on their own while NPCs only limited to Actions given by the creator. AIs have a Learning Capability while NPCs only Stick to their script
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2012-07-31, 07:55 | Link #653 |
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NPC follow their script... if the script allows the NPC to learn - he follows the script. Thats all she did. She learnd from other players - thats why she acts like one.
I used Pinocchio to point out that it doesn't matter how much the puppet acted like a human - he still was a puppet. He had emotions and a free will, but still he was not a human. Thats why an AI never can be a "player". You need to be a human to be a Player. If the fairytale is not all right you can use the "Three Laws of Robotics". Did the robots at any point stop being a robot? You used the DOTA "Computers" as an example. And they don't learn. They act like scripted - they just have more "options".
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2012-07-31, 08:08 | Link #655 |
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Well hope this help, in my opinion
NPC = Non Playable Character That's mean as long as no player(human/user) play it then it is NPC apart being it has AI(Learning AI or not) or not PC = Playable Character That's mean a character that player can control directly as his/her wish, obeying the game rule. |
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As much as I like Asimov, I don't recall him getting any divine ordination to be the end all-be all authority on what qualifies as sentient life. |
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2012-07-31, 08:11 | Link #657 |
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Well their judgment is...
If unit1 in sight use skill 2 or 4 or 6 then... if HP below 30 go to 23.56 ... ___ iGod (iGod | Artificial Intelligence Chat with God) Is he more than a chat bot? you know chat bots... like in the irc if anybody says "hi" the bot answer "hi". Just a tiny script... looking if anybody writes hi - if so he replays with "hi". iGod is a bot that can learn. So he will copy the humans who talk to him. Now when you chat with him it's like you would write with a normal human beeing. (Most of the time... he is not perfect) Does that makes him more than a bot?
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2012-07-31, 08:14 | Link #658 | |
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If iGod amasses enough knowledge and experience to achieve self-awareness, then yes, it would be more than a bot. Last edited by Daniel E.; 2012-07-31 at 15:54. |
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2012-07-31, 08:22 | Link #660 |
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Well if we back to the definition of PC/NPC int my opinion Yui is NPC, because no real human play as her character, If you say that her nature is different . . . well you could say that she is a special type of NPC (which is can be created by accident) with special AI that make her more humanize, or another extreme way of thinking is think her as a 'being' that lurk whitin digital world (you can analog it to ISO in tron).
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