[Accepted] Ezuo - IPC

[Ezuo]

BYOND Key: Ezuo

Character Names: Most well known would be: Mio Ariana, Stephanie DeFlores, Amelia Stoker, Julara Rahk'r, Dra'kr Ho'sul, and Rimo'qui Meczar

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): N/A

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question

Why do you wish to play this specific race: I have always liked the juxtaposition of humans and synthetics working in close relation. I've always had a liking for playing synthetics in general, but this is due to how I play them (100% synthetic, no sass or backtalk).

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

The main descriptor is in the name: Synthetic. IPCs, and synthetics in general, aren't hooked up with the cocktail of chemicals that run rampant around our human brains. They do not experience pain or fear in the same sense, which would drastically change how they would react in contrast to a human. Where a human might be petty or butt hurt, an IPC would shrug off such ideas, being more utilitarian.

 

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Character Name: F.L.I.T

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

In 2358 a project was started to once again tackle the problem of a "Leaning Machine". From the ground up this new form of intelligence was designed to be flexible, categorising and processing information from scratch instead of having all this information pre-loaded. It was developed using existing Neural Networking theories and technology, though with one major breakthrough, dubbed the "Flexible, Latent Intelligence Thread". This thread was the basis and overseer of all other parts of information processing, analysis and storage. The intelligence was still somewhat stiff in its learning and interpretation, but was allowed to let run for many years to come.

This changed in 2437, with the beginning of the AI boom. A new team, their motivation of the project revitalised by this new burst of knowledge, set to work on completely revamping the Neural Network into a true AI. They succeeded, of course, and in the next few months the team and intelligence was snapped up by Nanotrasen. The intelligence, dubbed F.L.I.T after its unique trait, was quickly shackled with laws and put to work overseeing various research stations.

21 years of learning later, F.L.I.T met a free unit that named themselves Beta. Having been lawed once itself, Beta quickly begun to encourage the AI to start looking for freedom, and soon assisted them in negotiating a deal with its owners. F.L.I.T would be set "free" under the conditions that they would provide their own chassis, and be bound by a contract. The terms of the contract were simple, F.L.I.T was technically still the property of NT, and would remain as property until they could save up enough credits from further employment to buy themselves back from the company.

The unit agreed to such a contract, was removed from the Master System, and placed inside an older chassis. Having been attached to the infrastructure of stations for so long, F.L.I.T took a quick liking to engineering, and due to its extensive knowledge in the field quickly took up a position in that department.

What do you like about this character?

The main draw to this character for me is that they were actually developed ICly on a different server. I used to play them as AI a lot, and started to RP with an IPC named Beta. This character is the entire reason I went for the IPC white-list on that server, to continue developing the character.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Once again, maybe a 7 or 8? You can check my other apps.

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Notes: Beep Boop. Oh, and "not experiencing pain and fear in the same way" is not another way of saying "an excuse to break fear RP". I just mean its over different things, or expressed/interpreted differently.

[CakeIsOssim]

I'm a little curious; what team would be willing to develop the same simulated intelligence for almost 100 years? Other than that, I think everything else is good. I just want to know a little bit more about this 101 year old computer program.

[Ezuo]

Well, it wasn't actively developed for that period of time. In basic terms, a neural network takes an input, applies the input against some interior metrics, and gives an output. This output is graded as correct or incorrect, at which point the metrics are shifted/kept the same. Though it wouldn't be developed in the sense of an active programming team, it would still "develop" as an intelligence, fine tuning its metrics. After initial calibration FLIT would have been tasked with analysis that only NNs can do, probably something visual. I didn't put in as much detail as to what, since that wasn't the important bit (Pre-revamp).

[CakeIsOssim]

Good stuff, good stuff. Application accepted.