Compound Intelligence?

Wild, speculative theories born from the communications with AdjutantReflex.

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UrsusArctos
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Compound Intelligence?

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Hey, just a sec...are we missing something big? He's designated as a compound intelligence...that brings to mind the Sentinels in Ghosts of Onyx. In GoO, the Sentinels are much deadlier than their Halo-based counterparts, and they can combine to form a much larger entity. At the end of GoO, a swarm of supersentinels obliterates an entire Covenant battlefleet.

Just like sentinels operating in concert and joining to form a much larger, deadlier killing machine, is Adjutant Reflex actually a unified system of AIs, operating under another single/compound intelligence?

Cortana (In the Maw): I'm detecting taps throughout the ship, Sentinels most likely. As for the Monitor . . . he's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core off line!

We all know that the sentinels on Halo 04 are a little low on smarts, but after tapping into the Pillar of Autumn's computer system, with its data arrays (And maybe a dead AI as well), could they form some sort of compound intelligence, temporary or permanent? After all, why should sentinels tap into the computer system, unless they're repair sentinels looking for schematics, like those on Halo 05, or unless they're doing something very un-sentinel-like?

If there exists a system of smaller intelligences throughout the Ark/ Halo system, it could come in handy in case some of more powerful single intelligences (Monitors) are captured or unavailable, as well as be impossible to capture or disable the way both Sparky and PT were in Halo 2. It might also be all over the Halo array as well as the Ark, so it's effective wherever it is. AR might have gotten human history data from Spark and gone back to our time, or it might simply have spread out of the Ark under Africa and into the internet.

(End note: If you manage to get to Guilty Spark in Engineering fast enough, and stay near the area he's roaming about without triggering a full-on flood or sentinel attack, you can hear him talking about repairs and making comments like "Hardware and software configurations are below required specifications". Best done on Easy. I haven't seen any of this on the story page so far, and you have to be patient, he takes a full loop before each line. Whack him in his shiny steel butt as much as you like ;) )
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I've always thought that the Sentinels were linked to Guilty Spark and that he was manipulating them to gain access at different points through the ship.

(Love your posts, by the way)
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UrsusArctos wrote:Just like sentinels operating in concert and joining to form a much larger, deadlier killing machine, is Adjutant Reflex actually a unified system of AIs, operating under another single/compound intelligence?
Good observation!
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Interesting theory, but when your so-called Super Sentinels are created, their purpose (As far as I can speculate) are only for constructive or destructive purposes. Investigation and facilitation seems out of the question for a Super Sentinel.

However, that's the exact purpose of a Monitor. We already know that AdjutantReflex has investigated (The Sleeping Princess), and we know that his purpose is facilitation.

Our pal just doesn't strike me as a Sentinel.
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Wow, that end note certainly is interesting. I agree with Lone Ranger though, he just doesn't strike me as a sentinal, and compound intelligence could refer to the fact that AIs can multitask, we don't know which things are simple and which are complicated at this point.
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But that also pre-supposes that the combined AI would have found a way to transverse time and space to get here. That was part of the story with I love Bee's, do we think that they would recycle the story like that for this ARG?
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Space yes, not necessarily time though. Why would he have to go through time?
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Sir Topham Hat wrote:Wow, that end note certainly is interesting. I agree with Lone Ranger though, he just doesn't strike me as a sentinal, and compound intelligence could refer to the fact that AIs can multitask, we don't know which things are simple and which are complicated at this point.
I never said he was a Sentinel, he just might be made up of Sentinel intelligences and God-knows-how-many other smaller computer systems and programs throughout the Halo array, if he's a compound intelligence.

The Onyx sentinels have highly coordinated attacks and form monstrous machines that can take down starships, but are they designed to form indefinitely large and larger machines when their numbers are increased? Try taking one Compound Intelligence we know about- the Flood. Infection forms accumulate enough mass from captured sentient life to form a Gravemind form, which acts as a hive intelligence for all of them. Sentinels and other forms of forerunner artificial intelligence might choose to do the same when necessary.

I don't know what Adjutant Reflex is made of, but "Compound Intelligence" makes me think he's made up of smaller intelligences of some sort...I suggested Sentinels because of GoO, and if he's made up of something else, fine. Our blitzkrieg rampages through Alpha and Delta have actually told us very little about the rings, there might be something on the rings that we have no clue about.

Either that, or he's not made of sentinels at all...there perhaps are a lot of smaller intelligences or computer systems within the ark and across the Earth...sort of like a Forerunner Internet, if you may. AR has somehow connected to our Internet and he's busy searching for something here.
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Could the temr compound intelligence not possibly refer to the fact that, like modern computers, AR is possibly a creation that came from multiple people? It's intelligence and systems and all the other complicated AI things will likely have each come from a specialised source, making him the creation of a compound of intelligences. But that does still pose the question of why he refers to himself as one.

Multiple programs (multi-tasking, as somebody else said)??
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1. composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.
2. having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.

I like the second definition of compound in this case. Anyone else?
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