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sounds like we mostly got better at making computers that could Seem to be intelligent.
If your digital assistant program can figure out what you want to watch on tv 70% correct, you would think is was clever. If it had a library of comments, in-jokes you like and attentive noises for use in 'conversation' you would forgive that 30% error, move past clever into almost human. The fact that it is just running a strong filter through all the input and choices you give it using a clever analysis program instead of "sentience" would be less important.
tl;dr
"expert" systems easy, "true" AI hard-impossible.
Also.. NUtopia. Space was for science and the ultra-rich. Ever since the.. um.. unfortunate events that catalysed the birth of a new human age we have been largely leaving space alone. A micro-sat here, a suborbital skimmer there perhaps, but little else.
still liking the concepts in this thread.
Our undiscovered world is this world. Our race is the human race.
>name for the proto-setting with humanity struggling with itself far from a used-up earth.
I guess Deadspace is already taken. BlackSkies, Void
Lytic Phase? (where the infected cell bursts, releasing all the new viruses to infect other cells. Like a planet being used up and abandoned)