- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Have you ever had curiosities about just how the A.I.'s in Bungie games work? I was just hoping to shed some light and ask a few questions. For example, I understand that the raw data for an A.I. could be contained in something like the data chip in Halo, but the A.I. would need a computing engine (like that in a starship or the MC) to run and think. The A.I.'s back in Marathon, although in a different universe and/or time, still operate on the same principles, and they required huge and extensive networks to run inside of.
Now then, if that is the case, and I think that this may have been brought up before, but bear with me please, Cortana would not have had time to process all the information she had been given inside the core of Halo. Think of it like a book. You can speed read to get the main ideas, but if the book is deep enough, you will need to read carefully and reread to absorb all you can gain and infer from the text. One interesting plot point of Halo 2, perhaps, will be that Cortana will slowly decipher the information she gained, perhaps including the location of other Forerunner installations. I believe Bungie said in one of their videos that Halo 2 is a "galactic romp across other Forerunner installations," as well as on earth.
Now then, getting back to the A.I., this would likely put the player across the path of other Forerunner A.I.'s, possibly even Guilty Spark. Aside from all rampant speculation about his personality, I think that he's quite an interesting specimen. Think about it, we know that the Covenant have been essentially plundering Forerunner relics for centuries, and not once have they been able to replicate artificial intelligence. Consider this also, that Guilty Spark never came to a Covenant first to act as the reclaimer, though obviously they were more combat ready than a marine. It would be curious indeed to know if he regarded them with distaste, sort of as "grave diggers" or something. It makes sense, yet I'm curious as to the official answer. If you have any ideas, or anything to add from the books that I'm not aware of, please do.