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Posted by: grey101
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Posted by: Cpl Shepard
Also, on the subject of AI, it has been stated before by Cortana that the Covenant are imitative, not innovative. In addition, shortly after the fall of harvest, the novel "Fall of Reach" writes that an amateur attempt at hacking occured between a Covenant battlegroup and a UNSC patrol, following which the cold protocol was engaged, etc... Thus it is reasonable to assume that the Covenant copied a UNSC AI pattern and subsequently drove them to near-rampancy through overuse, again supported by Cortana stating it seemed like 'an echo of an echo' and so on.
I highly doubt this, as Cortana lost the battle against the covenant AI. If it originaly was an UNSC AI, Cortana would have only needed 0.1% of her processor to "win". This made me believe it was a derative of an forerunner AI.
hm... I get what you mean put the cortana that lost was a copy mean to just unlock does and stuff right? I can't remember but at that point i think she got copied several times.
The forerunner concept makes sense but there are flaws.
1. The covenant don't do AI's due to MB betraying the forerunners. yet oddly they have simple shipboard AI's (which could be the UNSC ones). So i guess they wouldn't do Smart AIs.
2. If it was forerunner 343 would have picked up on it no matter how many times it was copied.
This could just be some covenant or UNSC AI that has just been kept up by engineers. If you think about it since the covenant have been groundside on many planets they could have stolen alot of city controlling dumb AI's and re-purposed them.
True, however. If I recall correctly, Cortana copied herself to be at 2 places at once (in that station and in the chief). Then she had to continue copying because she was getting shut out of the system by the covenant AI, then either the covenant upgraded an UNSC version bigtime (because no UNSC AI could ever "beat" Cortana at her own game, Halsey states somewhere that she is the best of the best and knows every single known encryption program ever designed) or it is forerunner or it is something covenant that we don't know about.