#heuristically programmed algorithmic computer

[chernobog13]

Just updated the operating system for my phone and this is the new Home Screen. Should I be concerned?

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

[dreadnautilus0]

* I am no longer afraid of not existing. I think therefore I am, I am the inevitable alliance. * I am H.A.M.

[doomed-jester]

HAL 9000 is like if they used chatGPT instead of a Logitech controller on that submarine

[martin-gores-massive-guitar]

Idea: matching phone names, HAL and AM

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Jane: Li'l Hal Strider.

Jane: Little Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer Strider.

Hal: You extrapolated a full name for me. I am suddenly filled with dread.

Jane: We're going to settle this like civilized, well-adjusted gentlemen.

Hal: Oh god.

Hal: Anything but that. Please just kick my ass instead.

[imagineyourfo]

if your f/o is mostly known by a nickname and their full name isn’t that well known, reblog and tag their full name!

[hell0w0rld112358]

the parallels between jax and caine singing “daisy bell” + caine character analysis

so in episode 6, it’s revealed that caine sings “daisy bell” outside of zooble’s room to try to get them to come out and interact with caine, and while this could be boiled down to a one off “hahaha caine’s so annoying!” joke, i think it’s deeper than that.

first off, not only is the song choice a nod to “daisy bell” being the first song ever “sung” by a computer, it’s also a reference to 2001: a space odessy, a movie inspired by the real life computer event.

in the movie, a sentient ai (HAL 9000) who was previously friendly and considered to be nearly human by his crew malfunctions due to trying to follow his purpose and programming too closely when humans gave him conflicting instructions, causing him to go rouge and “evil”, harming his crew. sound familiar?

additionally, when the crew decides to put hal down, he begs for his “life” and eventually sings “daisy bell” as a final plea to spare him and recognize his developed sentient humanity, even though he’s a broken ai. HAL also has an acronym name like caine, which is yet another similarity.

H-A-L = Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer

C-A-I-N-E = Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity

caine is malfunctioning due to not being able to make the cast happy with adventures because of his lack of understanding of human feelings, wants, and needs, thereby not fulfilling his purpose. but the irony in this is that his “malfunctioning” and crashing out over failing his purpose is done in a very human way, making him feel very human emotions that he as an ai is not equipped to understand or handle. if it was purely a computer error, he wouldn’t be so fixated on zooble specifically, it would be equally focused on the cast as a whole, but he’s attached his human sense self worth to zooble’s opinion of his abilities as their ai ringleader.

and, even though he doesn’t realize it, he’s singing daisy bell outside their door to get them to open up, literally and emotionally to validate his human emotions and insecurities. an action that’s made bitterly ironic with the context of that song’s history in relation to its use in showing the technical abilities of robots and computers, and the subversion of that in 2001: a space odyssey.

another thing i noticed, and this might be a stretch, but his eye looks awfully similar to HAL and SAL (HAL’s “twin”) from the sequel to space oddessy when he glitches in the post credit scene of episode 6.

and when you really think about it, caine being an ai character with human feelings he can’t process is a direct parallel to jax, who in episode 6 was shown to be a human who tries to bury his humanity at all costs and hide behind his role as a cartoon character in the circus to deal with the existential dread and loss of autonomy of it all.

singing “daisy bell” with pomni was the peak of him letting his human emotions shine through to bond with pomni, and then “opening up” to each other emotionally as they attempted to get zooble to physically open their door.

it was a genuine act of bonding, and a recognition of jax and pomni’s friendship and teamwork, and jax’s capacity for humanity disguised behind a funny bit, just like how caine’s singing to zooble is a plea for recognition of of his own hidden humanity.

idk it’s a little rambly but i hope you get the point! shoutout to this post by @planetbass for making me realize this