that's not bad should be pretty straightforward to check what commands it's routed to follow and readjust its programming to recognize signals it should respond to the value estimation's weird. you know that right? might be a glitch that needs to be ironed out, i should be able to run tests and at least diagnose it better than nothing
i guess? it's useful sometimes! dangerous when it gives a low rating to the wrong person though... anyway, this sounds good! and no pressure, i've just been keeping it powered down this whole time anyway so if it doesn't work it's not like it'll be any worse than it is now. let me know when you want me to drop it off!
like an insult bot... but this sounds like a good challenge, i've been wanting to do something besides finetune roboji anyway drop it by tomorrow and i'll work on it as much as i can before we have to be on-planet and time after that
[ and he will show up at shoma's door in the morning with the robot in the orange tie on the left here, though it's still powered off and he's holding its charging cable separately. ]
Well, it was part of a set of two. Some agency with a weird name sent them to us, they were just suddenly there at the house one day. This one's named Salmon, and the other one's... um... —oh, Pickled Plum.
It's like, a portable version or something, though, I guess. They're usually about the same height as us.
[ but currently it's like, two feet tall.
anyway whenever todomatsu gets around to leaving i will totally just play salmon for a little bit here. ]
...color-coded. [ fair. he's already moving to grab some tools and a few other things. ] It doesn't surprise me it's travel-sized now. There's a few things around here that people got that're downgrades. But even if it's smaller I should be able to do something.
[ i'm in tears. also eric lmk if you want me to actually check with the modteam about getting this working or if you want to ask or if you want to just go "no." ]
Honestly with how small the rooms are I'm not really going to complain about the size downgrade.
Anyway, like I said before, the problem's more with its personality than anything. And that's not new to this place, actually, it's been a problem for a while.
[ help he really doesn't need to do anything, they're just clashing because todomatsu misses when they were his reliable servants and salmon's pissed that he got separated from pickled plum for this bullshit. ]
True enough. When I made Roboji I kept his size a little smaller and just made him more powerful in his core. Usually when he's not out I keep him in my closet at home. [ but he's nodding...before he pauses. ]
...do you remember when the change in personality took place? AI respond to a number of stimuli, so any huge change can meddle with their programming.
Um. Well. A bunch of stuff happened, and we told them they should do what they want to do, and they decided to be NEET AI and enter an AI comedy competition. Which we... kind of supported...
[ off and on... ]
But under the circumstances here, that's really not acceptable, you know? I mean, it's useless when all it wants to do is vape and work on shitty jokes, but if we could do a factory reset or something and make it work like it was originally intended to, it could be a big help on those delivery jobs and missions and with analyzing trial data!
[ and for bringing him sodas and cleaning his room! ]
[ his eye kind of twitches at the idea of a comedy AI but he doesn't say anything about it. ]
So you gave it free will, it picked a terrible path, and now it's thinking too independently to go back to how it was. [ okay, well. that's fair. ] Honestly a factory reset really shouldn't be that hard. I reroute Roboji's programming all the time to help him learn and change his response times. I can crack it open and give it a look to get it functioning right.
Sure. Like I said it'll be a cool challenge to work with something new, so I'll do what I can and let you know as soon as I know either way. Shouldn't take too long.
[ bro. welcome to his world of being stuck in a scaled-down body. ]
Yeah, that happens when you're not plugged in. [ dry. but he does reach forward to wave his hand a little to see what salmon's reaction time is. ] What's on the local database?
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should be pretty straightforward to check what commands it's routed to follow and readjust its programming to recognize signals it should respond to
the value estimation's weird. you know that right?
might be a glitch that needs to be ironed out, i should be able to run tests and at least diagnose it
better than nothing
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it's useful sometimes!
dangerous when it gives a low rating to the wrong person though...
anyway, this sounds good!
and no pressure, i've just been keeping it powered down this whole time anyway so if it doesn't work it's not like it'll be any worse than it is now.
let me know when you want me to drop it off!
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but this sounds like a good challenge, i've been wanting to do something besides finetune roboji anyway
drop it by tomorrow and i'll work on it as much as i can before we have to be on-planet and time after that
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see you tomorrow morning then! thanks!
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Here it is!
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Huh. Different than what I was picturing. Not in a bad way. Where'd you say you got it from back home?
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Well, it was part of a set of two. Some agency with a weird name sent them to us, they were just suddenly there at the house one day. This one's named Salmon, and the other one's... um... —oh, Pickled Plum.
It's like, a portable version or something, though, I guess. They're usually about the same height as us.
[ but currently it's like, two feet tall.
anyway whenever todomatsu gets around to leaving i will totally just play salmon for a little bit here. ]
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[ i'm in tears. also eric lmk if you want me to actually check with the modteam about getting this working or if you want to ask or if you want to just go "no." ]
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Anyway, like I said before, the problem's more with its personality than anything. And that's not new to this place, actually, it's been a problem for a while.
[ help he really doesn't need to do anything, they're just clashing because todomatsu misses when they were his reliable servants and salmon's pissed that he got separated from pickled plum for this bullshit. ]
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...do you remember when the change in personality took place? AI respond to a number of stimuli, so any huge change can meddle with their programming.
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[ off and on... ]
But under the circumstances here, that's really not acceptable, you know? I mean, it's useless when all it wants to do is vape and work on shitty jokes, but if we could do a factory reset or something and make it work like it was originally intended to, it could be a big help on those delivery jobs and missions and with analyzing trial data!
[ and for bringing him sodas and cleaning his room! ]
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So you gave it free will, it picked a terrible path, and now it's thinking too independently to go back to how it was. [ okay, well. that's fair. ] Honestly a factory reset really shouldn't be that hard. I reroute Roboji's programming all the time to help him learn and change his response times. I can crack it open and give it a look to get it functioning right.
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Awesome, you're the best~!
No real rush on this, by the way, just text me with whatever you find.
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[ and he will leave shoma to it!
shoma will find that salmon's power cord plugs into its butt, because of course it does. ]
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...alright, well. Let's see what you do... [ behold: butt plug. good morning salmon, wake the fuck up. ]
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Ah—
[ turns around and looks at his plug. looks at shoma. his eyes flash briefly as he scans him and extracts his feature values. ]
Is Todomatsu-kun dead?
[ his voice is... so high pitched. ]
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Uh, not quite. He just stepped out for a bit. [ he kind of hopes the ai doesn't want him dead, god. ] How're you feeling, Salmon?
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Like I've been completely out of battery power for a week.
[ ...it's been several weeks, actually.
he goes still for a second while he checks something, then continues with a very :ben: expression. ]
...Ugh, and I still only have access to my local database.
[ not to even mention this stupid scaled-down body he got uploaded into!!! this sucks!!!!!! ]
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Yeah, that happens when you're not plugged in. [ dry. but he does reach forward to wave his hand a little to see what salmon's reaction time is. ] What's on the local database?