For me this is a great a day. Finally, a fresh new "Corvo" Zoner Deep Space Explorer "ZRV-Wayfarer" have returned home... Omega-49.
Five years I have been investing my capital into constructing ultimate research vessel tagged with Zoner Research Vessel (ZRV for short) prefix. And finally, the fruits of these years have shown up. Labs and living room is made for big numbers of science crew to make a high-class research projects while travelling in space.
At the moment the vessel is controlled by a standard crew. However, in unknown period of time all this is going to change. In the last bright days of my father, Darius Baltakis, he had a dream about an ultimate mind... controlling creations of human. A mind which have thousands of greatest minds in one small chip. A machine... an superior AI. AI which is interactive to all human. AI which can calculate logic and feelings. AI which can maintain itself with no help of human. The AI of the future. That was dream of my father. However, due the limits of human age he wasn't able to finish this project. I, as the only his son and successor continued this work.
And finally... Project "ZOIA" (ZOner Intelligence-Artificial) is coming to an end. ZOIA will be a superior ship AI, which makes more decisions and actions than any other computer or human can do in the same time. The main purpose of ZOIA is changing a big numbers of crew members in the deck. Instead of paying to hundreds of crew members in Bridge Control, one AI will make all the work. High-class human-interactive system will communicate with all passengers and crew members in the ship in natural speech. "She" will do the most of all the maintenance, so you won't be needing to worry about any engineers walking around ZOIA. She will keep herself clean. Because her direct connection to vessel mainframe, she'll always see status of the ship, so she'll always inform Captain about any problems. Research ship for researchers! Less space for unneeded crew- more space for science!
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Source: Aperture Science CEO
Location: Research vessel Borealis
Fascinating.
Would you consider sharing the specifications of this machine with Aperture Laboratories? We are very interested in seeing how it compares with m... Our own designs. Perhaps we can mutually benefit from each other's progress in the field and build upon our designs?
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Source: Aperture Science CEO
Location: Research vessel Borealis
We are merely interested in the specifications of your design, specifically any ways in which it is different from existing technologies. Aperture uses a similar system to this "ZOIA" on the Borealis which is where we carry out some of our most sensitive experiments, so obviously any innovations that we could apply to "FR-R-R-R-R---- *static*
In summary, whatever you are comfortable disclosing to us on the advantages of this machine would be appreciated.
At the moment ZRV-Wayfarer is returning from its trip from Omicron Lost. So we're expecting to see it in Omega-49 this evening. Since ZOIA's Central Neural net is already implanted to ship, the only thing we are going to do is to implant the ZOIA herself. So, she'll be fully operational the next morning. Even she's in beta state, she's already capable to complete more than 80% of her assignments. We'll test her in few flies and routes.
I think we can arrange a small meeting. Showing her specifications in neural net... is a "bit" unsafe.