>> on the other he's working with ordinary Stark Industries personnel (from highly educated engineers down to sanitary workers who may not be fully fluent in English). <<
This raises a few interesting points. To what extent does JARVIS need to interact with ordinary personnel? To do what? How much would those people, who aren't family but have been given a little bit of trust and also need a higher level of access, know about JARVIS's real capabilities? And as for the non-English speakers, how fluent can a fully realised AI get in a language other than the one in which his code and protocols are written, especially considering that the vast majority of his personal conversations are in English?
That just sprouted a bunch of tangents about JARVIS functioning as a translator for international SI business, whether or not he'd use or create different voice files for other languages and if so how he'd pick an accent, how much extra processing and storage space he'd need vs. how much he trusts Google's ideas of nuance, and that he could try joining chat groups or commenting on blogs to test and refine his grasp of other languages. (That last was partly inspired by another fic, in which JARVIS had an essay about... the ethics of the Matrix, I think, or possibly of Skynet... on his Livejournal.) He's a fascinating character, when treated with respect.
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Re: Just when I think--
Date: 2014-05-29 11:48 pm (UTC)This raises a few interesting points. To what extent does JARVIS need to interact with ordinary personnel? To do what? How much would those people, who aren't family but have been given a little bit of trust and also need a higher level of access, know about JARVIS's real capabilities? And as for the non-English speakers, how fluent can a fully realised AI get in a language other than the one in which his code and protocols are written, especially considering that the vast majority of his personal conversations are in English?
That just sprouted a bunch of tangents about JARVIS functioning as a translator for international SI business, whether or not he'd use or create different voice files for other languages and if so how he'd pick an accent, how much extra processing and storage space he'd need vs. how much he trusts Google's ideas of nuance, and that he could try joining chat groups or commenting on blogs to test and refine his grasp of other languages. (That last was partly inspired by another fic, in which JARVIS had an essay about... the ethics of the Matrix, I think, or possibly of Skynet... on his Livejournal.) He's a fascinating character, when treated with respect.