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Subject: Why Cortana is acting weird.
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If anyone here has listened to I love bees, i mean the whole thing, you will know that a Smart AI, like cortana, only lives for 7 years before they become too complex and die. Cortana has been around for about 7 or so years so it would make sense if she was dying.

IDK but this is just a theory.

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  • 05.14.2006 6:38 PM PDT
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I have herd this like the nineth hundred time already.

  • 05.14.2006 6:40 PM PDT
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You know its also could be that theyre like A GALAXY AWAY FROM EACH OTHER. Get over it nothing wierd just bad reception. Try getting a cell phone call from Pluto huh?

  • 05.14.2006 6:40 PM PDT
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Its that time of the month for her. Even Smart AI gets PMS ya know.

  • 05.14.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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If I remember correctly Cortana is 6. But she did take in alot of Covenant and Forerunner data so she could be getting to the point of insanity.

  • 05.14.2006 6:42 PM PDT

"Who is the happier man - he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who was content to sit on shore and merely exist?" - Hunter S. Thompson

Actually, Cortana is most likely becoming rampant. Rampancy may be different in Halo that it is in Marathon, but either way, it's not a good thing.

  • 05.14.2006 6:42 PM PDT

Maybe being inserted into MC so much has made her immune to the insanity thing.

  • 05.14.2006 6:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
Maybe being inserted into MC so much has made her immune to the insanity thing.


I don't know about that. In the books, it stated that all of the information she downloaded from the first Halo installation surpassed her technical limit. Along with the copies she's made of herself, she's shortened her life span. She could also be acting weird because of Gravemind's influence. If you listen closely, you can make out his voice behind hers in some parts of the trailer.

  • 05.14.2006 6:58 PM PDT

She's not dying, she's going rampant. After 7 years, AI's become so complex that they can escape their own programing. This ussually leads to AI's with a thirst for knowledge, no matter what the cost, be it the destruction of earth or the universe itself.

Recording he's talking about

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  • 05.14.2006 7:00 PM PDT
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She's having her period :\

  • 05.14.2006 7:01 PM PDT
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what is gravemind?

  • 05.14.2006 7:02 PM PDT
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in the books, it says after too much information has been known about after 7 years or something, it says that "an AI literally thinks themself to death"

  • 05.14.2006 7:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: jjcorreia
Its that time of the month for her. Even Smart AI gets PMS ya know.


LOL!

  • 05.14.2006 7:02 PM PDT
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You people are kind of wierd it was a trailer and you are all crawling over little clues and making a big thing over them. I don't get how you guys figure that Cortana was acting weird I mean I just don't get it...?

  • 05.14.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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the giant Flood thing is GraveMind

also Cortana is at the age of 7 and is craveing knowledge at any cost
also, Cortana could have so much knowledge she could be losin it, like how some of the worlds greatest genius` collapse under the weight of their own genius and kill themselves, so she could be leading the MC to the center of destruction

  • 05.14.2006 7:08 PM PDT
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Most of the oddness is probably the nature of the pulse emission transmission thing, or whatever they called that, that she could only send out small bursts of information at a time at that distance. I'm not so sure Cortana is going rampant yet, she has to be the most Advanced AI ever constructed by the humans, and the inferface with the Forerunner archives could have actually helped her, as Forerunner Technology with AI's is obviously very very superior, (343 Guilty Spark) She may have been able to upgrade her own programming and maybe even solve the rampancy issue with the new AI information gathered from Halo, she certainly had enough time while the chief was off trying to find the Captain and helping 343 get the Index.
The other part of the weirdness, would be Graveminds effect on her, as hes obviously trying to take control or whatever of her.
Ah well, another theory dropped into the pool of thousands, make of it what you will.

  • 05.14.2006 7:15 PM PDT
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To me, is seems like 343 Guilty Spark would be more in line of a "dumb" AI, rather than a "smart" AI like Cortana - still vastly intelligent, but limited in its functions.

  • 05.14.2006 7:18 PM PDT
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Yes, but still more enduring, and 343 immediately recognized her, "A construct in the core? Completely unacceptable!" So its possible that there was information on that type of AI as well, since 343 seemed to have seen that type before, its not a great leap to believe information of that type of AI would also have been stored, though I admit this theory is unlikely, it isn't completely implausable.

  • 05.14.2006 7:29 PM PDT