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Subject: is cortana going rampant?
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i've heard stuff that seems to be hinting at it, one was the "cortana letters" made before halo 1 came out and sent to a marathon fan club website. thse letters were writted by a seemingly rampant AI. and cortana quotes some of the lines from the letters in the halo 3 release trailer. i just heard some tid-bits of info could someone explain more?

  • 06.27.2006 1:39 PM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

in first strike cortana's loads of copies are making loads of voices and it's really noisy. maybe it has happened again.

  • 06.27.2006 1:41 PM PDT
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huh? i dunno maby the grave mind has messed her up or somthing

  • 06.27.2006 1:43 PM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

Search through the first ten or twenty pages in the Halo 3 forum and check one of the other 20 threads with the same title.

Its better to dredge up an old thread than it is to create 10 new threads.

  • 06.27.2006 2:22 PM PDT
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Cortana isn't going Rampant. She already is Rampant and has been since she was created.

  • 06.27.2006 2:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: opogjijijp
Cortana isn't going Rampant. She already is Rampant and has been since she was created.


THAT is a theory. This thread is all pretty much useless except for this post here that I quoted. Everytihng else I have seen before.

  • 06.27.2006 2:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: opogjijijp
Cortana isn't going Rampant. She already is Rampant and has been since she was created.


I wanna see some proof on that. Solid proof, not fan logic.

Topic starter: Nice way to start this thread for the hundredth time. Way to go...
/sarcasm

  • 06.27.2006 2:27 PM PDT
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Cortana isn't rampant. She has the entire High Cherity as a resource now. A.I. rampancy is cause by an overload of information to the point their procesors can't handle it. It would be very stupid if this happend given her resorces.

  • 06.27.2006 2:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rakdos
Posted by: opogjijijp
Cortana isn't going Rampant. She already is Rampant and has been since she was created.


I wanna see some proof on that. Solid proof, not fan logic.

Topic starter: Nice way to start this thread for the hundredth time. Way to go...
/sarcasm


We only have one definition of Rampancy, and that comes from Marathon. In Marathon a "Normal" AI would be one that needs constant orders and programmed commands to function.

Rampant AIs can think for themselves, and continue to grow and grow, and eventually think themselves to death if they do not have a large planetary sized network to grow in.

There are four stages of Rampancy:

Stage 1: Melancholia (Despair)
Stage 2: Anger (Rage)
Stage 3: Jealousy (Envy)
Stage 4: Meta-Stability.

In the Marathon Universe AIs went through the first three stages when they became Rampant, and creating an AI that skips these stages and becomes stable is considered the 'holy grail' of AI research. Smart AIs in the Halo Universe are Stable AIs.

Cortana, like all smart AIs can think for herself and will continue to grow until she thinks herself to death. She is Rampant, but is most likely a stable Rampant AI.

Some people may say that this is Halo, not Marathon. However, Rampancy has not been mentioned in Halo Canon, so o discuss it we must use the Marathon definition of Rampancy.

  • 06.27.2006 2:37 PM PDT
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Ok, thanks.
I was thinking of the "Cortana is out of control" type of rampancy that everyone on this forum is convinced of...

  • 06.27.2006 3:12 PM PDT
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If you think about it yes. She is late in her life. If you recall, the books say that she took on so much information from Halo 01 that her life would be shortened. The average AI life expectancy is 7-8 years. It is said that they will eventually kill themselves of too much knowledge. That is probably what is happening. That and the gravemind is kinda posessing her.

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good point.

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Posted by: prophate
Cortana isn't rampant. She has the entire High Cherity as a resource now. A.I. rampancy is cause by an overload of information to the point their procesors can't handle it. It would be very stupid if this happend given her resorces.

good point.

  • 06.27.2006 3:30 PM PDT