- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: opogjijijp
Posted by: halo04
Ya maybe but she is not crazy she is not killing no one or acting crazy i tough that was the defenition of rampant?
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 to discuss it we must use the Marathon definition of Rampancy.
i nvr played marathon, so i wouldn't kno all that. i'm glad i do now though, thanks. i still don't think that cortanna is going to survive, sry. her systems will be overloaded etc., and she'll keep thinking until she dies. thats kinda the way she was programmed.