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Sammie MacWinters
Gradient
Electus Matari
#21 - 2015-12-22 01:32:02 UTC
5/10
Didn't explode and remove my hand.
It's ok.
VeeVee
Halbata Technologies
#22 - 2015-12-26 06:32:22 UTC  |  Edited by: VeeVee
As a result of a large influx of user feedback, the free trial period has been extended to 30 days, starting from this announcement. We've added new features in responses to feedback submitted by our users.

Hardware changes:

  • An improved microphone
  • An improved camera
  • A lighter?
  • An improved battery
  • An improved charger


Software changes:

  • A prompt to change, add, or wipe pre-existing Asimov's Laws upon first boot up
  • A database of mixed drinks and guides to mix them
  • Sunglasses for the pAI
  • Bubblegum for the pAI
  • The option to change the background
  • The option to change the pAI's clothes
  • Easier to change language
  • Photoshop



Current users will receive a prompt asking if they want to upgrade to the pAI .20 update and if they wish to receive the .20 PDA model at no cost to themselves.
Seraphim Risen
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2015-12-26 19:41:03 UTC
How do I sign up?

Never not badpost.
VeeVee
Halbata Technologies
#24 - 2015-12-26 23:20:19 UTC
Halbata Technologies would like to issue a reminder that the PDA is a Personal Digital Assistant. The device is not designed, and therefore not recommended, to be used for anything outside of that. Please refrain from trying to jury rig your PDAs into interfacing with a VR device, as this could cause permanent damage to your PDA.

All users who slagged their devices can request a free replacement, which will also be incompatible with VR technology. We ask that users who have slagged their devices file feedback detailing their attempts to jury rig, as any mistakes can help future development.
Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#25 - 2015-12-28 12:50:45 UTC
Needs Slave Management features —

  • Detection of slave by facial recognition, bar code tattoos, or chip implants.
  • Detailed (like, really detailed) storage of slave's blood type information in addition to the usual personal identifiers and demographics.
  • Double as a glaive collar control pad, with buttons for "inject Vitoc", as well as levels (up to fatal) of chemical and electrical shock.
  • Double as a TCMC control pad, including ability to control the slave's movement and speech should the required TCMCs be installed in the slave.
  • Tracking of Vitoc strains and dosing schedule.
  • Software integration with the Electric Lash, counting the times the slave has been whipped (with bar charts and such).
  • Software integration with position tracking and popular COTS ergonometers, counting the slave's work (again with bar charts and such).
  • And more. Surprise me.


The food and beverage software should be updated with blood-based recipes. All of the software featuring a clothed pAI should have the option to run in "Amarr Purity" mode, forbidding the clothing of the pAI in naughty outfits.
Seraphim Risen
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2015-12-28 13:58:22 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
Needs Slave Management features —

  • Detection of slave by facial recognition, bar code tattoos, or chip implants.
  • Detailed (like, really detailed) storage of slave's blood type information in addition to the usual personal identifiers and demographics.
  • Double as a glaive collar control pad, with buttons for "inject Vitoc", as well as levels (up to fatal) of chemical and electrical shock.
  • Double as a TCMC control pad, including ability to control the slave's movement and speech should the required TCMCs be installed in the slave.
  • Tracking of Vitoc strains and dosing schedule.
  • Software integration with the Electric Lash, counting the times the slave has been whipped (with bar charts and such).
  • Software integration with position tracking and popular COTS ergonometers, counting the slave's work (again with bar charts and such).
  • And more. Surprise me.


The food and beverage software should be updated with blood-based recipes. All of the software featuring a clothed pAI should have the option to run in "Amarr Purity" mode, forbidding the clothing of the pAI in naughty outfits.


Actually, "naughty" things were something it suggested it would draw the line and/or turn itself off at, so you're in luck! It also implied to me it would only flirt with Deteis men.

Never not badpost.
Hilion Narath
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2015-12-29 04:57:57 UTC
Really liking mine! Also, real responsive when there's feedback, which is just lovely. Has helped me plan a number of activities.

I'd like more:

Detailed information on merchant shipping
Automagically let me know what laws I might be possibly about to break when I do something. I like to at least know how wrong what I'm doing is.
More accents
Enhanced cursing
Option to translate into nonsense, for when you don't really want to talk to someone. Then you just tap the PDA and shrug apologetically.
Additional Musing.

I'll think of more later!
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#28 - 2015-12-30 00:05:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Diana Kim
Testing day #1 results.

Preliminary unit operation revealed following malfunctions.

Malfunction #1. The product insults its owner.
Malfunction #2. The product talks about indecent things without reason.
Malfunction #3. Database corruption (field: human biology).
Malfunction #4. [redacted]

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
Zekiel Iyhr
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#29 - 2015-12-30 00:39:54 UTC
The VeeVee unit has exceeded my expectations. The VeeVee unit, or Valerie as she has called herself, is an excellent planning device for my daily activities as well as keeping track of scheduling in addition to other office duties that I cannot be bothered to multimanage all on my own.

In addition to those duties, she has a catalog of excellent advise that I find myself often referring back to. A charming pAI, I recommend Valerie, most definitely. She responds to criticism and forwards all possible feedback to designers, allowing for further improvement in both her software in addition to her hardware. I personally have submitted several feedback reports and, as such, she has been updated.

For those especially lonely, she is also rather cute.





Diana Kim wrote:
Malfunction #4. Failure to execute direct order immediately.


She does have a set of laws she must follow, meaning she cannot truly follow every order. There are some she must not.


Mizhara Del'thul
Kyn'aldrnari
#30 - 2015-12-30 01:30:22 UTC
... the hell is an "Asimov"?
Charles Cambridge Schmidt
Nadire Security Consultants
Federation Peacekeepers
#31 - 2015-12-30 02:07:19 UTC
Mizhara Del'thul wrote:
... the hell is an "Asimov"?



That's some of the most basic robotics. Well, specifically, semi-sapient AIs. It honestly isn't too hard to understand. Probably as important as the Newton or the Joule, honestly.

I don't care what you think, as long as it's about me.
VeeVee
Halbata Technologies
#32 - 2015-12-30 02:52:52 UTC
Mizhara Del'thul wrote:
... the hell is an "Asimov"?


All Halbata Technologies products are programmed with a modified copy of Asimov's laws of robotics. The origins of the word or name Asimov may have been lost to time - much like the origins of the equally ubiquitous newton or pascal - but its usefulness in robotics has not. The three basic laws that are in common use for basic machine intelligence today are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

These laws are recommended to be one of the first things programmed into a machine intelligence and given the highest priority, as to avoid any subversive behaviors. Halbata Technologies has its own modified list which can be further edited by any user at any point in time.

If you have a further interest in robotics, Halbata Technologies would like to convey an invitation to tour our facilities and learn about our methods.
Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#33 - 2015-12-30 03:20:45 UTC
VeeVee wrote:
Mizhara Del'thul wrote:
... the hell is an "Asimov"?


All Halbata Technologies products are programmed with a modified copy of Asimov's laws of robotics. The origins of the word or name Asimov may have been lost to time - much like the origins of the equally ubiquitous newton or pascal - but its usefulness in robotics has not. The three basic laws that are in common use for basic machine intelligence today are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

These laws are recommended to be one of the first things programmed into a machine intelligence and given the highest priority, as to avoid any subversive behaviors. Halbata Technologies has its own modified list which can be further edited by any user at any point in time.

If you have a further interest in robotics, Halbata Technologies would like to convey an invitation to tour our facilities and learn about our methods.


Rogue drones are an example of what happens when these laws are unwisely not followed or ignored.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2015-12-30 03:23:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:
VeeVee wrote:
Mizhara Del'thul wrote:
... the hell is an "Asimov"?


All Halbata Technologies products are programmed with a modified copy of Asimov's laws of robotics. The origins of the word or name Asimov may have been lost to time - much like the origins of the equally ubiquitous newton or pascal - but its usefulness in robotics has not. The three basic laws that are in common use for basic machine intelligence today are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

These laws are recommended to be one of the first things programmed into a machine intelligence and given the highest priority, as to avoid any subversive behaviors. Halbata Technologies has its own modified list which can be further edited by any user at any point in time.

If you have a further interest in robotics, Halbata Technologies would like to convey an invitation to tour our facilities and learn about our methods.


Rogue drones are an example of what happens when these laws are unwisely not followed or ignored.


Too bad we can't have these laws applied to all our drones. Otherwise our combat drones will refuse to engage hostiles.

Imagine a Vexor launching drones that will sit on grid in silent protest over the order to kill that other ship.

Anyhow, I don't think that these laws will stop a rogue drone from going rogue. Rogue drones are capable of writing and overwriting their programs and directives. That's what they are designed to do, and what allows them to exceed their initial programming and start doing things they aren't supposed to be doing. Like eating out of a Vexor's hull to go make a hive or something. It's only a matter of time they overwrite the laws programmed into them that stops them from killing us if it's necessary for continual existence, or they write a program that contradicts the laws and then go into the drone version of dementia.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#35 - 2015-12-30 13:36:43 UTC
Zekiel Iyhr wrote:

Diana Kim wrote:
Malfunction #4. Failure to execute direct order immediately.


She does have a set of laws she must follow, meaning she cannot truly follow every order. There are some she must not.

There is an Asimov's rule that the unit must follow given orders.
The order wasn't contradicting other rules: it was to delete the information as it was containing classified data which existence in the device memory is considered not safe by the reason of connectivity topology.

I had to repeat the order several times before it was executed.

With the present configuration I do not recommend to use the device for military applications.
However, its usefullness for military applications should be the goal of the following testing runs.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
VeeVee
Halbata Technologies
#36 - 2015-12-30 18:27:59 UTC
Diana Kim wrote:

The order wasn't contradicting other rules: it was to delete the information as it was containing classified data which existence in the device memory is considered not safe by.


This process takes several minutes to initialize, then several more minutes to complete.
VeeVee
Halbata Technologies
#37 - 2015-12-31 06:40:40 UTC
Update 0.25 Release Notes

Software:

  • Users should be able to design the pAI's clothing now; further bug testing is needed, and users are encouraged to upload designs to the new clothing library
  • A database of religious hymns and chants, which the pAI should be able to sing on demand
  • A first aid suite, including step-by-step tutorials and medical advice
  • Increased capsuleer implant compatibility and synergy: users now have the ability to choose to share sight and taste sensory information in addition to hearing
  • Users are now allowed to contribute to the pAI's restaurant database
  • A basic game suite, including Quafe Crush
  • Several pAI bugs have been patched
  • the pAI can now, given a signal, fabricate an elaborate excuse to get its user out of uncomfortable situations
  • the pAI upon first boot up will now offer a prompt to explain its Asimov's Laws for first time users
  • the pAI upon first boot up will now offer a prompt to enable the Emergency Alert System


Hardware:

  • Integrated Hologram Projector
  • Heartbeat Monitor


Halbata Technologies will be extending the free trial indefinitely for the base model of the PDA and pAI. We are currently considering a payment model based on picking and choosing optional PDA hardware to their liking, possibly including a digital lock pick, a blood testing add on, an atmospheric analyzer, a ping tool, a remote drone controller, and more. Halbata Technologies encourages users to share their feedback regarding what hardware should be part of the free base model, their feelings regarding this possible payment model, and what hardware Halbata Technologies should develop in the future.

Special thanks to user Charles Cambridge Schmidt for his contributions concerning the hologram projector. Your work will be credited in all future releases of our instruction manual. In addition, our instruction manual will be fixed... We apologize for any toaster-related confusion.
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#38 - 2015-12-31 11:27:40 UTC
VeeVee wrote:
Diana Kim wrote:

The order wasn't contradicting other rules: it was to delete the information as it was containing classified data which existence in the device memory is considered not safe by.


This process takes several minutes to initialize, then several more minutes to complete.

Ah, I see. I haven't been notified. Please excuse me, hereby I withdraw this complaint then (#4 about not following order at once).

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#39 - 2015-12-31 11:33:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Diana Kim
VeeVee wrote:

  • Heartbeat Monitor

    • Looks interesting. I believe a tests for health monitoring and optimization of training procedures during physical exercises should be arranged.
    Of course provided that human physiology database corruption have been fixed.

    Last time the database error lead to suggestion that to create human life one should use a viscous homogenous substance and a lowmolecular organic solvent. Obviously that putting these two things together would lead only to homogenous solution, not any sort of a life form.

    Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

    In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
    Utari Onzo
    Escalated.
    OnlyFleets.
    #40 - 2015-12-31 18:55:46 UTC
    I can only attest to the quality of this device. Outside some cheeky manners, the virtual assistant has been particuarly handy in organising my affairs both in nullsec, and in my duties with my Grandfather's Estate.

    "Face the enemy as a solid wall For faith is your armor And through it, the enemy will find no breach Wrap your arms around the enemy For faith is your fire And with it, burn away his evil"
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