Minus Years, Part 2
I sort of feel sorry for Query, but I am fairly certain he is not capable of feeling awkward either.
The buffer has made it up to 1! I am not just entirely slacking off on my break! For the first time in quite awhile the read-ahead reward is not a total scam.
I think pretty soon I’ll have a new poll up for next Patreon goal, or something. I don’t know. Playing around with some different options. Considering redrawing some of the side bar chibis as well. Anyway, been a productive enough break, though I won’t deny a certain amount of it went to playing some video games that have been sitting in the backlog… 😛
If you haven’t seen it, check out the vote incentive. It’s a bit of a fun, as I think it does a good job of showing the difference between Miko and Ila (who many people not entirely inaccurately accuse of looking similar :P). Hopefully will replace it by the end of the week, but we’ll see…
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It took two suggestions and an “Are you kidding me” stare (without the ability to make facial expressions) for him to understand “Well, you could ask her”.
Shortcoming of Peter’s. You don’t say?
(To think, he went from clueless to the idea of “you could ask her” to running conversations in circles around people. Their relationship might not’ve been the most professional, but apparently was exactly what he needed at the time. Kally apparently gets a confidence boost or six in the meantime as well…)
This is so fun to watch…..
You know, on re-reading, I’m curious…..”creator”. Does that actually mean Peter? Or is that Miko? (“You were supposed to be my friend”, after all, and a few other things….)
It is all a ploy this isn’t just a flashback arc Query’s life is flashing before his visual receptor.
How cruel of you to kill such an wonderful character that people loved for little reason then make us love him even more for actual reasons.
A more serious note once more, loving minus years already nothing else to say yet, I don’t like to speculate, only misdirect and confuse with facts.
“…I do not endeavor to advise on social interactions…”
That exact phrase sounds very familiar… And the trick that querry used earlier during the gunfight to stop the bullets that weren’t intercepted, the one that caused father Kepler to say “it can hack an implant…”; that is a trick that we have seen from Mium on multiple occasions.
You noticed that too. I went to go look it up after noticing that and seeing you notice that too. It is exactly what Mium says here.
Alas, poor Query, we only got to know thee posthumously. 🙁
At least, I assume that Query is dead. Maybe he’s just broken, but repairable, back in the future, where we… last saw him.
I find it interesting how comparatively personable Query seems here. Granted, he was not featured in many panels in the main story. But, previously, it was rare for Query to say anything at all. Only here does Query hint at being a true A.I. whereas before anyone would be forgiven for assuming it was little more than a sophisticated, hovering data analysis tool.
I’m pretty sure that the largest part of what Query has become is cloud-based, and that the mobile unit is repairable or replaceable.
There are some parallels with Mium here as to personality, sense of humor, and way of looking at things–like you said, interesting. 🙂
Actually, Query is far more personable than Mium. In fact, Peter is more Mium-like at this stage than he is when we meet him in the main comic. Query may or may not have become a component of Mium, but if he did, he lost a lot of his human interaction protocol.
I suspect Mium is a second generation AI, more akin to a child than a clone or evolution of Query, with different priorities than human interaction.
This page back here more or less confirms to me that Query’s protocols are embedded in MYM/Mium. Additionally, Mium has some tics from Query – he almost always refer to questions as Queries and tends to answer at length if someone asks him a question (if not always at helpful length).
My list of what makes up Mium is: MYM (this was probably Avon’s lab AI), Query (made by Peter?), ANGL (we know basically nothing about this so far), and the AA System (some smart commenter suggested this is the Autonomous Autocaster system),… and then possibly part of Miko.
As far as the human interaction protocols, I am not convinced Mium is less capable than Query here, I suspect he just less helpful (and more of a troll). Mium actually used the exact “I do not endeavor to advise you on social matters” line once before, in almost the exact same circumstance (Peter had just met Kally at Levenworth I believe).
Also, it seems like to me that Mium knows Kally. He messes with her more than anyone else besides Ila (and maybe Miko if we could hear both sides of those conversations…). This suggests to me that he at least has Query’s memories of her.
Like I said, I think Mium is a “child” of Query, using some of Query’s architecture and maybe even possessing some memory. But the personality has shifted significantly. It is possible Mium’s personality evolved from Query’s in the same way a child’s grows into an adult’s, but it would be odd to LOSE the personability and ease of understanding human behavior.
Query is not puzzled by human behavior the way Mium is. Query seems better able to interact reasonably with humans without being inherently off-putting. I suspect Mium has the resources to learn Query’s interaction protocols, but has not because he has “better” things to do with them.