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Oy vey! The letters have no standing, it has been stated, but I'm not sure if that's the whole truth. As for her dumping the Halo data? That's true, but I doubt that she wouldn't keep a copy of it on her, though reduced. Maybe though....(WARNING!!! Another one of the crazy ass theories that came out of nowhere) Forerunner virus program?

  • 05.17.2006 11:54 PM PDT
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sorry all... i didnt realise that the letters were *unreliable*...

any way i think that cortana has been *hacked* in a sense by Gravemind.

WARNING: WILD SPECULATION

The flood tap into a host by accesing the nerves and brains of their host. Cortana was a special AI because the good Doctor had her brain flashed cloned and instead of nerves throughout her brain they were replaced with some data stream. Thus the making of cortana. Now if the flood *hack* into a host's nerves, it could be very possible for Gravemind to hack into Cortana using the same methods.

Just something i thought... if she has a flash cloned brain then there is no problem as to thinking herself to death.

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  • 05.18.2006 12:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: LINDA 58
Give me one GOOD proof that you have of Cortana being rampant.


Normal AI's need constant orders and programmed commands to function. Rampant AI's bypass their own programming. They grow and grow and grow until they fill their memory capacity, and yet they still keep growing. Rampant AI's need a planetary network to sustain growth, otherwise... they think themselves to death.

Smart AIs are Rampant AIs. They continue to grow and think until the eventually think themselves to death. Smart AI's can think for themselves and act without being given any commands. However, smart AIs seem to skip the first three stages of rampancy( Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy) and they are in a state of meta-stability.


Ok, Ok I admit it yur right rampant ais do think them selves to death. BUT Cortana (as I said earlier) was made differently and she knows that so she probably put if not all most of her data that was making her act wierd in the space station at the beginning of H2.And smart ais are not rampant ais . Rampant ais are "dumb" ais as Cortana talks about this in the First Strike. But that is if you READ THE BOOKS!!

  • 05.18.2006 12:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: IamShishka
Cortana is hot


Actually....Cortana/Dr.Halsey/Jen Taylor is teh_hawtness.

  • 05.18.2006 12:08 AM PDT

BUMP!

  • 05.18.2006 12:24 AM PDT

Come on peoples, keep this thread alive!
(Despite the fact that most of this stuff is probably being done to death)

  • 05.18.2006 12:43 AM PDT

Shes just a little -blam!- that wont shut the -blam!- up.

  • 05.18.2006 1:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: LINDA 58
Posted by: opogjijijp
Posted by: LINDA 58
Give me one GOOD proof that you have of Cortana being rampant.


Normal AI's need constant orders and programmed commands to function. Rampant AI's bypass their own programming. They grow and grow and grow until they fill their memory capacity, and yet they still keep growing. Rampant AI's need a planetary network to sustain growth, otherwise... they think themselves to death.

Smart AIs are Rampant AIs. They continue to grow and think until the eventually think themselves to death. Smart AI's can think for themselves and act without being given any commands. However, smart AIs seem to skip the first three stages of rampancy( Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy) and they are in a state of meta-stability.


Ok, Ok I admit it yur right rampant ais do think them selves to death. BUT Cortana (as I said earlier) was made differently and she knows that so she probably put if not all most of her data that was making her act wierd in the space station at the beginning of H2.And smart ais are not rampant ais . Rampant ais are "dumb" ais as Cortana talks about this in the First Strike. But that is if you READ THE BOOKS!!


No. Read the definition of Rampancy I gave you. Cortana fits into that definition, as do all other smart AIs.

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I'm srry but cud you do a favor for me and think here? Do you REALLY think that Dr. Halsey would make Cortana probably knowing that she wud someday help win war with the possibility open that she cud become rampant?

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  • 05.18.2006 10:29 AM PDT
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I want to make one thing clear. This is not Marathon. Must I repeat myself? This is not Marathon! When in the books has the mention of rampancy ever come up? When in the game? There is no rampancy as such in the Halo universe, so please just stop it. I know there are similarities, but not sameness. Halo and marathon are seperate, so stop taking the ideas and terminology of one and placing it in the other. It simply won't work. YOu can argue the defenition of rampanacy and say that is Cortana's state, but the simple fact remains that rampancy DOES NOT EXIST in the Halo universe. Never mentioned, never brought up. They die after seven years, end of story.

  • 05.18.2006 10:30 AM PDT
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swords r cool

  • 05.18.2006 10:32 AM PDT
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What the -blam!- are u talking about?

  • 05.18.2006 10:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: LINDA 58
I'm srry but cud you do a favor for me and think here? Do you REALLY think that Dr. Halsey would make Cortana probably knowing that she wud someday help win war with the possibility open that she cud become rampant?


Yes. All smart AIs are. Being Rampant only means that the AI can think for itself nd act without being given any commands and that it continues to grow until it thinsk itself to death.

  • 05.18.2006 10:44 AM PDT

I all ways thought she might be evil!!! (even in Halo CE)

  • 05.18.2006 10:46 AM PDT
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Yes. All smart AIs are [rampant]. Being Rampant only means that the AI can think for itself nd act without being given any commands and that it continues to grow until it thinsk itself to death.

Technicaly this is not true, since Durandal was rampant and never thought himself to death, and all the other rampant AIs from marathon didn't have this "thinking to death" time limit on them that Cortana does. You're mixing the AI ideas of Marathon and Halo and making one unified AI. It doesn't work that way. There is no thinking to death in marathon, and there is no rampancy in Halo. I stress again, they are similar, but don't confsue the terms. Use a little bit of discretion between the two, and it's clear that they don't coexist.

  • 05.18.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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Where i did u get that theory?

  • 05.18.2006 12:26 PM PDT
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hey look at the pole and the ppl who like swords! yay swords!

  • 05.19.2006 12:51 PM PDT
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Rampant means extinding without control. All "Smart AIs" are subject to this, that is why they will only live for seven years!!! Therefore Cortana has to be rampant or she would not me classified as a "Smart AI"!!!!!!!!!!!! Read the books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.19.2006 1:25 PM PDT

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