[Basic]

I wanted to know could a Rigger Build an Android for a AI to inhabit so it has physical form ?

Got the Idea after watching
Project KARA
http://youtu.be/xM2Rkqvd5uY

Would be a Interesting story arch to have the team have to go after a Rigger who built a Android for his AI Lover

[Xarin]

Not that far fetched actually.  Cyborgs are just brains in a jar rigging drone bodies, some of which are very life like.  Replace brain in a jar with a nexus for an AI to inhabit and you're all set.  It's just a drone with fancy bodywork.

[Reaver]

Not that far fetched actually.  Cyborgs are just brains in a jar rigging drone bodies, some of which are very life like.  Replace brain in a jar with a nexus for an AI to inhabit and you're all set.  It's just a drone with fancy bodywork.

Definately plausible. Only thing I can think of is, how long would it take the AI to learn how to control the body? After all, you're talking about a million and one actions we do with out thinking about....

but that could just be part of the run too

[chinlamp]

Not that far fetched actually.  Cyborgs are just brains in a jar rigging drone bodies, some of which are very life like.  Replace brain in a jar with a nexus for an AI to inhabit and you're all set.  It's just a drone with fancy bodywork.

Definately plausible. Only thing I can think of is, how long would it take the AI to learn how to control the body? After all, you're talking about a million and one actions we do with out thinking about....

but that could just be part of the run too

Well, as an android, it doesn't need to breathe, eat, sleep, blink, show facial expression, defecate, etc. so there really aren't many functions that we 'don't think about' that it needs to do.  And there are anthroform pilot programs that could help it to easily integrate into its new body.  I really don't think there would be any problems for an AI to have when it comes to controlling an anthroform drone.

[Reaver]

Can AIs 'absorb' programs to learn them? (not read unwired in over a year since we have not hackers/TMs in our group)

How do AIs learn?

[TheNarrator]

Definately plausible. Only thing I can think of is, how long would it take the AI to learn how to control the body? After all, you're talking about a million and one actions we do with out thinking about....

If the AI was capable of running an ultraviolet node with realistic-looking VR, and making their VR persona imitate facial expressions (as at least some of the AIs in the setting can), then I suspect that they could do the same with a robot body's servos and motors. And there is at least one cyborg body/drone in the setting that looks good enough to pass for human, at least at first glance. (Mitsuhama Otomo, Arsenal page 121.)

So yes, it seems entirely possible for someone to build an android body for an AI to inhabit. Wouldn't be cheap, however. (The Otomo is 150,000 nuyen.)

[_Pax_]

Can AIs 'absorb' programs to learn them? (not read unwired in over a year since we have not hackers/TMs in our group)

  No.

How do AIs learn?

They spend Karma, just like any other sapient.  (Except their "karma" isn't the kind that metacritters can drain/eat.)

[_Pax_]

I suspect a Pilot Origin AI would have little to no problems handling a humanoid drone body.

[JustADude]

So yes, it seems entirely possible for someone to build an android body for an AI to inhabit. Wouldn't be cheap, however. (The Otomo is 150,000 nuyen.)

I suspect most of that is the built-in Cyborg Adaptation, though.

[Mirikon]

So yes, it seems entirely possible for someone to build an android body for an AI to inhabit. Wouldn't be cheap, however. (The Otomo is 150,000 nuyen.)

I suspect most of that is the built-in Cyborg Adaptation, though.

One reason I've been praying for an anthroform drone that isn't a cleaning drone like the Manservant, and isn't a cyborg thing like the Otomo. A wider range of anthroform drones is very much needed. And it would give the Pilot: Anthroform skill some use besides Cyborgs and biodrones.

[Lethe]

I wanted to know could a Rigger Build an Android for a AI to inhabit so it has physical form ?

You can have that already with a manservant drone - just take the pilot anthroform skill.
But like others mentioned, thats far from looking human or even moving like one

Would be a Interesting story arch to have the team have to go after a Rigger who built a Android for his AI Lover

Just do it, for NPCs everything is possible. Could be a prototype.

[Mirikon]

Would be a Interesting story arch to have the team have to go after a Rigger who built a Android for his AI Lover

So THAT'S what Dodger's been up to...

[JoeNapalm]

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[Lucek]

Well it is open source, all they'd need to do is root their commlink.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Would be a Interesting story arch to have the team have to go after a Rigger who built a Android for his AI Lover

So THAT'S what Dodger's been up to...

Presuming you believe that Morgan/Megaera, Mirage, and Deus are still separate entities out there...