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Post by Miguel on Feb 23, 2010 18:02:28 GMT 2
I'm wondering... With Apple's "Apps for everything" line of thought, combined with how well it sells, the iPhone is swiftly becoming the real-world equivalent of the PET in the Battle Network series.
How long do you think it'll be before hackers make viruses for the iPhone, and as Apple tries to stop it by making the iPhone's systems more and more complex, it eventually gets to the point where we need artificial intelligences dressed as friendly mascots to run them for us?
I am looking forward to that day.
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Post by VileMKII on Feb 23, 2010 18:22:51 GMT 2
Don't neglect the megaman Navi app for it too, where megaman talks to you and lets you know you have mail/text/anything else.
I do agree, PET's will come to fruitation, though I doubt Navi's will exists.
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Post by Miguel on Feb 23, 2010 23:48:33 GMT 2
Like I said in my earlier, less refined post that I tapped out over my lunch break, we already have low-grade PETs. They're just not called PETs.
And I honestly do think Navis may become a viable product soon enough. Think of all the people online right now who have no idea about coding or proper virus protection or what to do in case a computer crashes. Old people, young people who like what the internet can do but don't want to have to learn how to assemble a PC in a cave from a box of scraps, corporate executives.
All these people rely on their tech-geek friends when the sixty terrabytes of porn they were trying to download crashes their computer, but I'm sure they'd love it if the computer could fix itself.
So in comes Apple or Microsoft or some other giant tech corporation to the rescue, offering artificial intelligence for your computer for a *ahem* modest fee. And why just leave it as a dialog on your monitor? Why not give the intelligence a voice? A face? A snarky personality?
And why just leave it in your PC or laptop? Suppose you get attached to your little 'Puter Pal, he gets to be like a pet who can talk with you? Wouldn't you want to take him with you on your vacation to Jamaica? To see the fireworks display on the fourth of July? To visit the site of the plane crash that claimed beloved comedian/actor Eddie Murphey? An easy solution: download him into your iPhone!
Seriously, it's making me shiver, how close we already are to living in a society so closely resembling the setting of a series of video games about a digital teenager in a blue jumpsuit turning his hand into a firearm in the name of Anti-Viral software.
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Post by viruszero on Feb 24, 2010 0:52:21 GMT 2
I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on something like that.
I mean I know my grandmother couldn't use a computer, but she likes the speed of email. And both my parents are only marginally able to use a computer. So a navi would be perfect to aid them, they could just tell it what they want and it could do everything for them.
But first I think that computers and mobile devices have to advance more before it'll be possible. I can imagine the processing power needed to make something work would probably be higher than what most mobile devices could handle. (I'd suspect that even a desktop computer might not have enough speed to handle it...)
Though I can't see anti-viral abilities playing out like the BN fights. Well... if they did it'd likely just be a scripted/generated image/video for the user's sake.
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Post by Silver Stryker on Feb 24, 2010 2:14:33 GMT 2
HEELLLLOOOOO peeps, we already have lovable computer navis.  |
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Post by randomdrifter865 on Feb 24, 2010 2:38:47 GMT 2
Oh boy... If technology keeps going at this pace maybe. Probably not in our generation ,but I'd say in five generations before that happens. And those little helpers maybe.
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Post by Miguel on Feb 24, 2010 17:59:59 GMT 2
HEELLLLOOOOO peeps, we already have lovable computer navis. That's not a navi. It's a pop-up window with a face. |
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Post by Silver Stryker on Feb 24, 2010 18:51:53 GMT 2
Correction: Its a retarded popup with a moronic face that you wanna kill so badly.
But nevertheless, I was just joking around.
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Post by VileMKII on Mar 1, 2010 18:42:18 GMT 2
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Post by nekogabby on Mar 15, 2010 16:48:48 GMT 2
Navis would be awesome, but just imagine how much coding and programming it would take to create an artificial intelligence anywhere near that what we see in the cartoon, not to mention all the space it would take up too.
I know what you mean though, my mum was flaunting her I-phone to me with her newly downloaded voice search app which I thought was quite clever. Give it a universal anti virus app and perhaps you might just as well have a net navi for a phone.
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Post by Miguel on Mar 27, 2010 16:44:09 GMT 2
Obviously netnavis won't start off being as sophisticated as in the actual Battle Network series. I mean Megaman.EXE himself is the digitized soul of Lan's twin brother Hub, and you'd never suspect it since he seems to be on the same level of intelligence as all the other, (most likely) soul-free Navis.
But what we'd get if some tech giant made a computer with an AI that runs itself would be the real-world equivalent of netnavis.
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Post by nekogabby on May 13, 2010 0:12:21 GMT 2
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