Timeline for Are there androids in Shadowrun?
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 7:15 | answer | added | ECrownofFire | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 6:13 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | One of the three stock AIs in Runner's Companion for SR4 is a Feral AI whose home node is a robotic dog. An android is an anthroform chassis, I know, but it's practically the same. I'd post an answer but the OP is asking just about 5th ed. | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 18:26 | vote | accept | russellpierce | ||
| Sep 25, 2014 at 14:49 | answer | added | Cristol.GdM | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | Cristol.GdM | ...which should probably be an answer rather than extensive comments. I'll proceed to do that. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 18:44 | comment | added | Cristol.GdM | @SevenSidedDie What I meant (oh, the limitations of written text) was that the question asks for androids (aka humanoid robots) and then proceed to ask about AI. That's several questions. Is there androids/humanoid robots? Yes. Are there ways to put AI in androids? Yes. Has it been done in cannon? No. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @Cristol "Android" just means a robot/automaton with a humanoid form, which is not incompatible with SR-type AI. I think you're thinking of "cyborg", which is quite different, yes. | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 6:33 | comment | added | Attackfarm | Not only can AI in SR4 have a "home node" smaller than a Troll, a vending machine is a listed example. The computational power in 2075's Sixth World seems to be adequate for AIs to be supported in even simple devices. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 14:25 | vote | accept | russellpierce | ||
| Sep 25, 2014 at 18:26 | |||||
| Sep 14, 2014 at 23:02 | comment | added | Cristol.GdM | What I meant was that the question is "Are there androids" and androids and AI are two very different things | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 18:55 | comment | added | russellpierce | I intended to use the out of game definition of AI, so expert systems and autosofts don't make the grade. | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | Cristol.GdM | There are two questions here. It hasn't happened in canon (not that I know of), but it is definitely technologically possible (my players did it). You might also want to define "android". Is a bipedal drone an android only if it has AI? What about a bipedal drone running on autosofts? | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 18:06 | answer | added | Liack | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 17:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackRPG/status/511210964054573057 | ||
| Sep 14, 2014 at 15:37 | history | asked | russellpierce | CC BY-SA 3.0 |