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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Well, after googling it... without reading the books, I have to say with modern computers, it is hard to see how a using a human brain in a ship makes more sense than using a well made computer.
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Bill
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The underlying premise in the series is that there is no artificial substitute for human judgement. No True AI.
And, despite the prevalence of AI's in the genre, that is still the state of the art.
So it is not (yet) unreasonable to posit that an organic brain might be a valid solution to the question of fully independent and reliable complex systems.
True AI's have not been proven impossible but neither have they been proven as inevitable.