Hero 5th: Sentient AI Implants?

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All,

I was wondering how you'd buy an ally that is an intelligent AI that
resides in a small brain-comp that is implanted into a human, for a
high tech setting. The AI would be free-willed, and could perhaps
access the internet and do its own thing, but would serve as a
friend/advisor to the person it was implanted into. Would you buy it
like a Follower? Like a vehicle or a base? or what?

Thoughts?

Lewis

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On 14 Aug 2005 00:50:09 -0700, lewis@lwb.org wrote:

>All,
>
>I was wondering how you'd buy an ally that is an intelligent AI that
>resides in a small brain-comp that is implanted into a human, for a
>high tech setting. The AI would be free-willed, and could perhaps
>access the internet and do its own thing, but would serve as a
>friend/advisor to the person it was implanted into. Would you buy it
>like a Follower? Like a vehicle or a base? or what?
>
>Thoughts?

Figure out what you actually want it to do.

provide knowledge skills?
Have particular powers (however you'd model internet access)

figure out the powers and then look at the special effect.

In this case I'd say that it is just a special effect that it's an AI
rather than it being a follower (if it's implanted in you it doesn't
really fit the follower rules IMO) it isn't a base and it isn't a
vehicle.

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On 14 Aug 2005 12:34:30 -0700, lewis@lwb.org wrote:

please leave enough context in the message to see what is being talked
about

>Well for one thing, while I'm sleeping, or unconscious, it could order
>groceries, play a video game,

not worth worrying about.

>or download itself into a cybershell and
>fight a burglar, or anything.

Humh, I'm not sure how you'd model that. I don't have 5th ed yet.
Could be a summons or duplication (if those are the power names)
or mind control (electronics)

> Its a full person. It would be a sentient
>AI and could do its own thing at all times (using wireless access to
>get "out" anytime it wanted).

out into what?
depending on the answer that could be teleportation, mind control
(electronics),

> It could certainly call the police or activate traps,
> threaten an enemy, investigate a crime in another
>continent by inhabiting a robot body (standard tech, nothing specific
>to the AI or the PC)

that'd be fairly expensive with range.
You'd probably need 2 powers 1 for normal ranges and 1 megascale (=

>and give me information on leads .... anything
>that a sapient AI could do in a high tech campaign.
>

As I see it there are two possible ways of building this,
1) as a follower
2) as the special effect for normal powers.

I see 2 as more appropriate as it's probably impossible for people to
really target it directly