Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34522933-20190326091705/@comment-2.37.215.88-20200830165432

68.101.178.202 wrote: Is Alice real or she is just an AI?.. Like Yui? strangely enough she is both things human and ai

and a clear distinction can be made in a paragon with yui

yui is a real ai a program created with a set of parameter limits and objective. she is a top down ai. created  with a limited capability of reaction to situation because its creator can not code every possible response to every possibile situation.

alice is a copy of human mind (fluctlight or soul in  the interpretation of the story) educated and grown up in a digital world. she is essentialy a scan of a newborn mind made to evolve in a digital world. she is a bottom-up ia. she is capable of learning but has also an incredible versatility in comparison to an ia as yui. she is not coded to react in a certain way. limit could be placed to limit her actions but her set of ability to think and reaction are essentially on par with a human mind.

so the answer is alice is a bottom-up ia made from a scan of a human mind. she is not tecnically a pc program but she is not human in the old definition of the term. at the end of alicization she is downloaded in a  robot body and that is the thing that is seen at the end of the book. she is essentially an android

the people of the underworld are essentially scans of a human infant newborn mind (copies like a cd copy paste) downloaded in a virtual reality and made them grown in that enviroment.

is pretty complex because the story insist in making a lot of overlap between the concept of sentient mind and the concept of soul. they are called fluctlight and are a mix of mind and soul with property of both.

to put simply imagine taking a baby scan his mind and then putting a copy of this mind in a vr world. the copied mind will then grown as a real baby mind will grow with life experiences and teachings from others. at the end of the prcess you will have a real rational thinking copy of a human brain in electronic format capable of reason and sentient. but that mind is in pc program format. it will be for ll intent and purpuse an ia.

at the end of the book alice make the contrast pretty evident. fluctlight are essentially human minds in electonic format, with personality desires, opes dreams and sentiments. they are not ia in the strict term of the word. and alice make it evident that using them will be equivalent to slavery. a theme that probably we will see in unital ring too