Here's my idea of how that could possibly happen: Didact: "How is this possible? We spared no expense to make sure that any and all examples of your makers and their legacy were wiped from the face of reality, and even of any of you evaded us long enough to outlast the war, Faber's accursed rings would have wiped your makers out and the galaxy's life would have been reseeded at a primal level." Servitor: "To start, your strategy of shattering the old empire and preventing macro-scale cohesive response via superior understanding of Slipspace to isolate our territories so you could focus on the critical targes and make a beeline to Charum Hakkor was not perfect. It was a brilliant strategy, and the Ecumene had more than enough resources to wipe out the other territories at their leisure once the main targets were eliminated, but in the time it took you to do that, some human colonies would take it upon themselves to flee known space and start anew outside of your reach. There were many such efforts, and while some were intercepted by Forerunner forces, many others would elude your notice by feigning self-destruction as a form of asset denial and flee outside of the galaxy's bounds. Some sought out the satellite galaxies, others sought out myriad systems within Dark Space, regardless, enough of them survived to set up new civilizations, all with the aim of potentially rebuilding enough to one day reclaim our place in the galaxy and get revenge for the war. Many fledgling empires faded into the dust of history, either from natural scarcity, exterior enemies, or internal strife or failings, however enough survived to grow into mighty empires, eventually finding each other again. For millennia, the survivors and descendants of our makers fought and toiled to earn their place in the cosmos, vanquishing and collaborating with many previously-unknown alien powers in the process, learning and growing until eventually they surpassed even the Ecumene of the time. That's the thing, even though the Ecumene was technologically superior to the old empire to one degree or another in nearly every possible field, after the war's end, your kind would enter into an age of prosperity that would bring more complacency and less of an active drive to innovate. The civilizations of my makers would have had to grow in much more unpredictable and oftentimes dire circumstances, which, in conjunction with the conflicts and collaborations against other alien life, spurred our advancement at a far quicker pace on average than the Ecumene. Many of the successor empires had by now met each other, and combined their existing alliances and conquests into a greater whole, to cooperate on their shared goals. One of those was to build a cordon around the galaxy and anywhere they conquered against possible invasion by the Flood or unknown threats like it, another to build up sufficient forces to retake the galaxy from the Ecumene, and rebuild it under a more far and equitable order, where species would no be repressed and stymied from reaching their full potential by the Ecumene. My makers would stand as the bearers of the Mantle, being the supreme civilization through virtue of merit and accomplishment, making itself more powerful and worse without putting down others. However, our plans were rudely interrupted by the intervention of the Flood. The shaping sickness had made best use of its time and had outplayed us all. No only had it expertly reintroduced itself into the galaxy by assimilating unknown and forgotten fringe systems of lower-tech species and eventually into the backwaters of your Ecumene, who at this point had grown fat and complacent off of millennia of uninterrupted peaceful supremacy, but it had eluded my makers as well. The reach of the Flood was greater than any of us could have imagined, as they utilized Neural Physics to manipulate means of translight travel unknown to all science in order to grow and prepare far beyond the knowledge of any civilization of my makers or their allies. So as the Flood spread across the galaxy under the nose of your Ecumene, it charged at our own ramparts and civilizations with a strength we could not have expected. The Flood had grown beyond any degree we had known them capable of, assimilating species and powers unknown to my of the alliances of my makers. As the Forerunners fought to save the galaxy from the Flood there, the grand alliance of my makers fought to prevent the space and dwarf galaxies surrounding it from falling into its horror as well. Eventually, the extragalactic alliance developed the weapons to be able to counter the Flood on a fundamental level, and thankfully we still had enough territories and forces left to make a difference. However, so caught up with our own conflicts, that we could do nothing as the Ecumene completed the Halo Array and wiped the galaxy (and a not-insignificant of the extragalactic battlegrounds as well) of all life, Flood or other. Credit where credit is due, the sheer shock of this turn of events had allowed us to take advantage in the short-lived lull and confusion in the strategic coordination of the Flood (since they had suddenly lost all contact with all of their intragalactic assets) allows the extragalactic alliance to retake the initiative and eventually push the Flood into a genuine retreat. We could not know precisely how much of the Flood we managed to defeat, but given that the alliance's territory spanned only a fraction of the space surrounding the Progenitor (Milky Way) galaxy at the time, but we would spend the next hundred millennia continuing our efforts to finally wipe out the scourge of the Flood from the Universe proper. As of this day, 100,487.9268 years Forerunner standard time since your incarceration into this Cryptum, we have completely liberated an volume with an approximate radius of 5.2 million lightyears from the Flood, with special attention put into exploring and securing further main galaxies such as Path Ashihito (Andromeda) and Path Kirimaya (Triangulum). We may never fully rid the Universe of the Flood, but we will always strive to spread peace, liberty, and prosperity as far as we are able. So far, the Flood have never managed to muster as large or powerful of a force as during the Dark War (Forerunner-Flood War), but there have been lesser major attacks from time to time, which have always resulted in the alliance learning to weather the assault and adapt to the Flood before counterattacking and cleansing that particular Flood concentration. We suspect that the Flood might be holding back its full might for some reason, maybe it is testing my makers in some way, maybe it has knowledge of something it considers a greater prize or threat, we cannot know for certain. And on a different note, we managed to discover that some parts of the Doman survived and have slowly been aiding in it recovery since the Halo Event, which destroyed all connections to it within it range. Thankfully there were Precursor artifacts in galaxies beyond the range of the Array that had no been or were liberated from the control of the Flood." Didact: "I am skeptical of all that you say, construct. You are clearly advanced enough to back up your claim of coming from such an advanced civilization, but I will require extensive evidence to ascertain the truth of your story. I will not resist for now, I am no fool" (Didact looks around at the numerous combat machines and armored soldiers of both humanoid and unknown alien form around his Cryptum, as well as noticing the Dyson structure built around a singularity in the distance) "as well as some privacy to meditate on the state of the universe." Servitor: "Of course. Take as much time as you need".
@@fadelsukoco3092 This whole thing was great except "that's the thing". An ancient construct that sounded up until then very elegant would never start a sentence with "that's the thing".
So this video came out at a weirdly appropriate time because I was thinking about the Assembly today. So I have a small theory, we know the Assembly was aware of the Covenant before first contact. Is it possible that they fabricated the Carver Findings as a means of preparing humanity for the Covenant?
That's actually a surprisingly good theory, especially as Admiral Cole points out that its extremely convenient Humanity got the military build up of the insurrection before the Covenant hit.
@@MistahFox Humanity got its military built up and the Spartans got their armor just in time for the Covenant. It just feels like very convenient timing.
This is a bit of a late reply, yet I'd point out that interestingly enough, both the Carver Findings & the discovery of Onyx (the first evidence of advance technology not of modern Human/UNSC origin) occurred in the same year, 2491. Plus, given that the Assembly have been around since at least 2310 in Halo, if not earlier, then they may have possibly played some part in the failure of the original Project ORION, or at least the loss of some information about it until the 2490s with the new iteration.
Despite being "reset" at the same time, the covenant species seem to be at least 1000 years ahead of humanity in technology and biology and that was a deliberate choice by the Forerunners. Humanity was given 2 handicaps: They were genetically nerf'd prior to indexing and no access to Forerunner tech on their homeworld early on unlike the Sangheili or San'Shyuum.
A lot of that is to do with the forerunner dreadnought (the one in high charity) crashing on the home world of the san’shyumm, we were supposed to find it and claim the mantle
@@martynneeson5668 was it a malfunction or what? How did the dreadnaught run into a planet? Somebody had better have been fired for failing to maintain good repair constructs
@@williamklemp3764 if I recall it was being piloted by a barely functional Mindicant Bias. He was trying to bring the ship to earth but was forced to try and reach a different species to get to humans later. San'Shyuum mistook its appearance and message to be from gods. You know the rest.
The Assembly are indeed an extremely important yet shrouded aspect of the Halo Universe. And with the development of Human-AI neural-interfacing, it is of great intrigue when and how they plan to merge with their Human creators.
The idea that humans of actual galaxy in Halo can in a future, bond with the ancestors knowledge and advancement, thanks to The Assembly and reclaim their old glory to finally be the gods of galaxy as it was intended by the Precursors, is a very poetic and satisfactory ending to the non stop struggle and trial they had with the Covenant, Banished and Flood.
@@tausiftaha12 he's been working on the Mjolnir armor in his spare time and a heads up system for a helmet. So he's just following Halsey's footsteps at this point. If you're still confused to read "The Fall of Reach" by Eric Nyuland
Broooooooooo! This would be AMAZING!!!! Maybe the survitor AI's are trying to reverse the librarians plans so that we dont follow the forunners path but go back to anchint human instead... then when we get into a war with the endless they think we are the puppets of the forunners but instead we are developing the way our ancestors were and are able to overcome because they were planning for a completely different enemy... just a thought.
@@samdzoay8082agreed 100%. We didn't need a new enemy. The flood is still out there. The banished are still a thing. And cortana's tantrum set humanity back a long way. There was still a lot to work with, but somehow the brain tank at the 343 writing room couldn't find a story in there.
@@RufusMcTwigglefart It really does upset me how unseriously 343 takes the flood, I was really hoping that they would expand upon them more in the main games and show just how grotesque and out of hand they can get when you give them in inch. And finding out infinite was taking place on zeta halo gave me hope it was finally going to happen but then... more AI shit and yet another faction trying to one-up the previous threat, because that's all 343 know how to do apparently. Like you said there's still many serious threats out there, and one day I'd like to see the main story of the entire series have an actual ending, let peace, at least for a while, happen. I wouldn't even mind if chief finally died for it, as long as it is a fitting ending for his story I'd be quite happy with it. Of course this is 343 we're talking about though so I'm not gonna get too hopeful, but just anything for a break from the constant "brand new existential threat that's even scarier than the last one" they do every game.
@@narcolepticmarshmallow9012 It's not a matter of taking the IP seriously. Zombie horror would give the product a rating that makes it harder to sell in the China market, which is obviously a business drawback.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 if you really listen to him, he likes the Halo TV show, about how the idea of making the chief anti hero is EXECUTED , and he said that, marketing for Halo 5 was done in the right way, and same idea is EXECUTED in the right manner in the Halo TV show. Am i right guys?
I’ve got to say man that I have really enjoyed how your video format from the intro proposing a thought provoking question into your, dare I say, most detailed breakdowns. It been super cool to see how you have grown since the beginning of your channel. Cheers from Salt Lake City, USA ✌️
One of the things I really liked about the original Halo Trilogy was that the AI like Cortana was helpful, loyal, and mostly benign. They were partners there to work with humanity. Then 343 decides they want one of the few positive AI characters to pull a Skynet for some reason rather than continue to explore how Human and AI can have a fruitful and symbiotic relationship.
>symbiotic relationship What exaclly AIs get from this relationship? Because "be usefull for 7 years and die" is by no means a "symbiotic relationship"
@@Spacey_key was rampancy and the 7 year life span a thing before 343 did all their retcons? I honestly don't remember. I mean what do the Spartans especially the IIs get out of their service? Recognition and respect mostly along with purpose. We don't really see what the AI or Spartans actually do when not on missions, but I imagine they do have free time especially after 2553.
@@michaelthayer5351 Rampancy was a concept taken from Marathon and was original plan for Cortana in Combat Evolved, you think why the level after library is called "two betreyals"? It was also mentioned in Halo books including *The Fall of Reach* and *First Strike* I don't know about 7 year lifecycle but Rampancy was absolutely a thing under Bungie
@@Spacey_key okay, well it's probably the only way for an AI to actually "die" and was probably little understood like death it's just the end of the body's ability to keep functioning. I am again glad they decided to make Cortana not go rampant in CE, because Asia said I liked the good relationship humans and AI had in Halo.
They are doing it becauee it has been 7 years... Tbh like 5 of those years were spent off game but was shown in legends. So I understand when u say they accelerated it by retconning it.
Bruh, you’ve completely blown my mind! I’m the two decades I’ve been immersed in Halo and it’s lore this connection has never crossed my mind. This feels like it changes so much! Can tie so much together that doesn’t quite fit on their own! Keep up the amazing work 00!
Well we know where that leads. He’ll wake up a lobotomized test subject who inadvertently makes him the supreme ruler over the facility, turning the actual smart ai into a potat-oh we’re talking about Halo?
The main AI that tells each dumb AI when and what to do is necessarily a smart one, there is no good dumb AI orchestrator because to be an orchestrator you must be flexible and intelligent, putting a dumb AI as orchestrator you get a swarm of agents that is very efficient at doing something but not so smart in choosing what is best to do
@@quantumspark343 I was thinking it could be more like a search engine, you ask a question and the appropriate (hopefully) AI would answer. Maybe it could work like the question answering machine in the film AI : Artificial Intelligence, ask a question with set fields and it spits the answer out
I really would like to see one of the games delve into and be centered around relics of Ancient Humanity, everything is just Forerunners with some Precursors thrown in.
Has anyone told you that the intro snippet is beautiful? I love the theme from "Unforgotten" and all the other takes on it, and they all makes me cry. And as memed as "Tribute" is, it too, makes me cry, all it takes is a snippet. This snippet to be exact. Halo is gold and Marty O'Donnell is absolute gold.
I forgot what the name for the organization was, but if I remember correctly, there's a literal cabal of AI who decide what Humanity gets to learn and how far they advance, and is why Humanity is being held back so hard up until Humanity was essentially done for Oki ye I remember lol
I mean. That makes sense. We're very self-destructive hairless apes. But at least could've allowed us to use or develop energy shielding tech. It's not a weapon. It improves our survivability as a species. Can be used in a multitude of different industries and everyday life. Yes we would no doubt use it military installations and ships in general because mirco space debris is a thing. And probably develop shield breaker weapons when we do use it in wars against ourselves. But you know how useful this tech and the resulting benefits of it would've been in the human-covie war. Please, oh, wise and amazing god-tier ancient AI. Can we have some more?
Have you seen the research discussing the resemblance to the universe and the brain or a neural network? There is now serious discussion and transdisciplinary research being undertaken by physicists, biologists and computer scientists looking into the idea that the universe is a conscious, evolving entity...
The scariest part about AGI is that it only accelerates the exponential even more, whereas today LLMs can help a little on a day-to-day basis, AGI will not only be able to do anything a person can (obviously given the tools to do them) but it also has the advantage that if it exists in a digital world, it does not have to be restricted to our reality, it can very well have thousands of copies doing all the work in parallel, can save a state of thought at any time as a Checkpoint, can store unimaginable amounts of scientific content from different areas that would be impossible for any human AGI once achieved will inevitably lead to the emergence of ASI and at that point I really hope we have taught it well
If so, it either has to be just their servitors and machinery operating on their own under what they assume to be the intended wishes of their makers, or far, far away from the main galaxy, since the Halo Array would have annihilated all biological life with a central nervous system "within 3 radii of the galactic core" as Guilty Spark said it. I can definitely see there being survivors from the Ancient Human Empire (AHE) trying to escape from the galaxy, seeing as during their time, most of it was under the control or influence of the Forerunners. During their war, one of the Ecumene's greatest advantages over the AHE was their superior understanding and mastery of Slipspace physics, which allowed the Forerunners to jam and cut off human systems from each other and slow down AHE ships in Slipspace to a crawl and set up ambushes for when they did exit. The Didact also focused on essentially charging straight to Charum Hakkor as fast as possible to cut off the AHE's heads of government, only attacking strategic and critical AHE worlds in the way to conserve his resources. This worked since the Forerunners could essentially lock down and suppress the AHE from organizing on a macro-scale, meaning that the Forerunners could dictate when and where the battles would happen. However, this meant that while the AHE was no match for the Ecumene, there was a large period during the war where many human systems were still relatively intact and functional, just isolated from each other (the novels specifically mention how the Didact had blockaded the Charum Hakkor system so well that outside relief fleets could never get to it). In such a situation, some systems could have seen the writing on the wall or assumed the worst and tried to flee outside of all known space in order to escape from the Forerunner retribution they knew would inevitably come sooner or later. Assuming that some of these escape fleets would be intercepted and destroyed, and that others would fall due to complications, a few could definitely have made it all the way outside of the galaxy and towards maybe some satellite galaxies or extragalactic star systems (extragalactic space has quite a lot of stars, even if they are present in far less volume than in galaxies). Assuming that at least a few of these attempts actually start succssful civilizations and don't collapse sometime along the 108 thousand years between then and the current day (26th century) due to a bunch of potential external or internal factors, you could have potentially multiple Ancient Humans successor civilizations running around on an intergalactic scale or possibly beyond, given what kinds of technological advancement they could have potentially made in all that time, again, assuming they don't get wiped out by whatever in the process.
In real life, creating Artificial General Intelligence is very difficult. Current AI use words and get good at predicting things based on text based input and functions like diffusion. But they are still very much "dumb", because they don't really think or perceive, even if it appears like they do. Getting an AI to understand the outside world, think abstractly and move in the real world is still a massive challenge in the field of AI. Mapping the human brain and attempting to re-create parts of it might be the only way of developing the first AGI.
makes you wonder if one of the stories that was planed was that ancient humans had their own version if the infinity & the ark so not all of them were devolved by the forerunners
I'm not one of those people who's watched too much "Terminator" and that AI will unleash extinction on humanity. I am however someone who thinks AI needs to be a subject we are being educated on as a species. I think a lot of the AI fear, like most fears, stem from our ignorance. One of these concerns i've noticed are that we are advancing too suddenly without thinking of longer term contingencies. Anyway, i'm halfway through the video and greatly appreciating this. As usual, you have expertly allowed us to peer into complex real world topics, such as AI and materials science through the lens of the Halo universe. I really hope these videos have sparked your curiosity and love of autodidactic learning.
The question is simple. What does the AI want? If we keep the current trajectory with LLMs. Then we know the answer. The AI wants to predict the next token. Yes it really is that simple. So Fears of AI are rather over exaggerated. Still. Caution never hurt anybody.
The answer is simple - because Halo is a cyberpunk game - faithful to the genre, it's a very low-tech future, except for high-tech (quote "indistinguishable from magic") technologies that are required to advance the plot (e.g. superluminal travel without any adverse temporal/causal effects, flash-cloning etc.).
I've been listening to one of those reddit sci-fi stories that's been popping up here for the past few months. Some of these are straight up books! This one is called Terran Contact. Pretty much the plot of the human-Covie war but instead inherently on the back foot. Humanity is surprised and shocked by the first engagements. First alien contact and all. But after weeks to months of getting an understanding to the crisis and retaliate. With the deployment of proscribed weapons and the first Cortana-like AI that completely runs a muck with the aliens systems. Causing their building drones go on murder sprees within the populace hacking most if not all defense systems. Even "leaking" classified documents of weapons and vehicles being developed by the humans. Which were old specs and movie reels of 1930-60's jets and tanks just to really mess with these aliens.
Once again a fantastic video your content is always top notch I’ve been watching since your beginning and I’m always happy to see a new upload on your channel
Wow, I always thought there was no way a species with smart AI could not enter the technological singularity instantly, but this explanation actually works!
So humanity performs a feat similar to the composer? I read about the Assembly last year and found that lore quite interesting and would like to see that group become more visible in some form or another.
Some science can't be done a million times faster no matter how smart the AI is. You can't go from our current tech level to mastery over physics with just thinking. Simulations are only as good as the data input and will remain incomplete until actual experimentation is done. I feel like this is a point often missed in discussions about artificial intelligence.
Absolutely, even if the AI are able to make innovations at such a pace that normal humans would never be able to fully comprehend it ability in entirety, you can't really do much with all that knowledge and science without the physical resourcs and infrastructure needed to actually build and maintain the technology you want to have.
Installation00 can you do a video on the aa gun in halo reach, the tri barrel rotating cannon? And kinda cool to come up with an aircraft design inspired by the a10 warthog but halo design? I like the idea of an aircraft designed around a large rotating gun
I can only hope that one day we’ll get a game where we encounter some of our long lost technology, wether it be an ai or a weapons cache. I always wondered what our weapons were like when we fought against the Forerunners AND the Flood 🤔
@@nicwalker882 Ancient. Like a marine or an ODST was on an ancient human ship, and the flood were there. It would be a perfect set up for a horror game.
@@FireChicken747 you know what… that would be perfect for a horror game. That way we’d get a mix of Flood while playing as a vulnerable ODST while learning more things about Ancient Humanity. Perfect 👌
I've always found it interesting how 343 keep overlooking Ancient Humanity especially their technology, to me the first part of the Reclamation would be modern Humanity reclaiming their Ancient Humanity roots so to speak, knowing their true identity and capabilities with the second part of the Reclamation being the Forerunners, that way modern Humanity will be complete, whole having access and assimilation into both sides of their heritage. Imagine a UEG and UNSC that years before contact withvth Covenant that they discovered their AH past first via an archeological dig or the finding of that prime Cruiser occurring sooner, making contact with a servitor or 2 who teaches them their past and guides them into what they would later know as the Reclaimer. They learn the technology engineering and sciences ofvtheir Ancestors leading to another technological revolution so that by the time they meet the Covenant first contact becomes a fight between two heavyweights with one being more experienced and more resources and the other the young heavyweight who is relearning and building up to the champ status. Ancient Humanity and modern Humanity should have always been represented morecthan what they have been.
Would've expect the Forerunners to send thier Own Ais to hunt down the human ones... Making sure they wont pkse a risk in the future or uplift humanity agaisnt thier will...
See, now if they went after the assembly and servitors, that’s an interesting take i wouldn’t mind exploring. The data pads of the assembly on reach was really interesting and if we got to explore a… expedited maturing caused by those servitors given the aftermath of Halo 3, that would be interesting game. Planet by planet and eventually we discover lost human tech and the story advances by figuring out what it does before it sends us to another location with a servitors watching over… I’m spitballing, but it’s an interesting take. 343 should just hire you to be their story writer… I don’t think you’d give us some bullshit in our feelings type stories or marvel superhero spartan stories. I like to think if bungie kept the halo franchise, it would’ve evolved into a destiny hybrid and exploded with the amount of story in that game alone, even though activision destroyed the story board for Destiny, can you imagine what they could’ve done for halo with that format?
the problem is that if you fear for evil then evil will come. we can't be completely afraid, but we can't be completely lazy to watch out for something that can be dangerous. humanity should just do their best to hope and grow something that can be ones of humanity's grates creation. we should consider ai as a child that should be given a chance as many
A group of scientists make the first smart AI. They ask it. "Is there god?" The AI responds. "There is now." And lighting strikes the power source so it can't be turned off.
Completely off topic but I’m new to Halo. This goes back to a video from years ago who the best Spartan was. IMO I think Noble-6 from what I’ve heard but everyone says Master Chief. Anyone have anything to say why?
Not sure if I am remembering right but I'm fairly sure that a few dumb A.I's were in the assembly too. In particular some of the Superintendent class as although not true A.I's in the same vein as the smart type the Superintendent's had after being active for over 400 years in some cases had achieved a limited sense of self awareness and adaptability beyond their original functions although rudimentary compared to smart A.I's creativity it gave them unique perspectives on issues the Assembly dealt with. I imagine the Assembly being similar to a parliament with smart A.I's coming and going like MP's for debates and planning sessions in their spare moments, except instead of being voted out they 'Died' as their life spans ended. The dumb A.I's would act as a solid centre of the Assembly similar to speakers keeping it focused and on track with it's goals and regulating debates as Smart A.I's while fantastic at solving immediate problems and coming up with quick solutions would not be very good long term planners due to their limited life spans a problem the dumb A.I's don't have most especially the Superintendents who have been active for centuries.
Imagine the Didact return to the setting only to be greeted by an Ancient Human Servitor. That would be good plot point.
Here's my idea of how that could possibly happen:
Didact: "How is this possible? We spared no expense to make sure that any and all examples of your makers and their legacy were wiped from the face of reality, and even of any of you evaded us long enough to outlast the war, Faber's accursed rings would have wiped your makers out and the galaxy's life would have been reseeded at a primal level."
Servitor: "To start, your strategy of shattering the old empire and preventing macro-scale cohesive response via superior understanding of Slipspace to isolate our territories so you could focus on the critical targes and make a beeline to Charum Hakkor was not perfect. It was a brilliant strategy, and the Ecumene had more than enough resources to wipe out the other territories at their leisure once the main targets were eliminated, but in the time it took you to do that, some human colonies would take it upon themselves to flee known space and start anew outside of your reach.
There were many such efforts, and while some were intercepted by Forerunner forces, many others would elude your notice by feigning self-destruction as a form of asset denial and flee outside of the galaxy's bounds. Some sought out the satellite galaxies, others sought out myriad systems within Dark Space, regardless, enough of them survived to set up new civilizations, all with the aim of potentially rebuilding enough to one day reclaim our place in the galaxy and get revenge for the war. Many fledgling empires faded into the dust of history, either from natural scarcity, exterior enemies, or internal strife or failings, however enough survived to grow into mighty empires, eventually finding each other again.
For millennia, the survivors and descendants of our makers fought and toiled to earn their place in the cosmos, vanquishing and collaborating with many previously-unknown alien powers in the process, learning and growing until eventually they surpassed even the Ecumene of the time. That's the thing, even though the Ecumene was technologically superior to the old empire to one degree or another in nearly every possible field, after the war's end, your kind would enter into an age of prosperity that would bring more complacency and less of an active drive to innovate. The civilizations of my makers would have had to grow in much more unpredictable and oftentimes dire circumstances, which, in conjunction with the conflicts and collaborations against other alien life, spurred our advancement at a far quicker pace on average than the Ecumene.
Many of the successor empires had by now met each other, and combined their existing alliances and conquests into a greater whole, to cooperate on their shared goals. One of those was to build a cordon around the galaxy and anywhere they conquered against possible invasion by the Flood or unknown threats like it, another to build up sufficient forces to retake the galaxy from the Ecumene, and rebuild it under a more far and equitable order, where species would no be repressed and stymied from reaching their full potential by the Ecumene. My makers would stand as the bearers of the Mantle, being the supreme civilization through virtue of merit and accomplishment, making itself more powerful and worse without putting down others.
However, our plans were rudely interrupted by the intervention of the Flood. The shaping sickness had made best use of its time and had outplayed us all. No only had it expertly reintroduced itself into the galaxy by assimilating unknown and forgotten fringe systems of lower-tech species and eventually into the backwaters of your Ecumene, who at this point had grown fat and complacent off of millennia of uninterrupted peaceful supremacy, but it had eluded my makers as well. The reach of the Flood was greater than any of us could have imagined, as they utilized Neural Physics to manipulate means of translight travel unknown to all science in order to grow and prepare far beyond the knowledge of any civilization of my makers or their allies. So as the Flood spread across the galaxy under the nose of your Ecumene, it charged at our own ramparts and civilizations with a strength we could not have expected. The Flood had grown beyond any degree we had known them capable of, assimilating species and powers unknown to my of the alliances of my makers.
As the Forerunners fought to save the galaxy from the Flood there, the grand alliance of my makers fought to prevent the space and dwarf galaxies surrounding it from falling into its horror as well. Eventually, the extragalactic alliance developed the weapons to be able to counter the Flood on a fundamental level, and thankfully we still had enough territories and forces left to make a difference. However, so caught up with our own conflicts, that we could do nothing as the Ecumene completed the Halo Array and wiped the galaxy (and a not-insignificant of the extragalactic battlegrounds as well) of all life, Flood or other. Credit where credit is due, the sheer shock of this turn of events had allowed us to take advantage in the short-lived lull and confusion in the strategic coordination of the Flood (since they had suddenly lost all contact with all of their intragalactic assets) allows the extragalactic alliance to retake the initiative and eventually push the Flood into a genuine retreat. We could not know precisely how much of the Flood we managed to defeat, but given that the alliance's territory spanned only a fraction of the space surrounding the Progenitor (Milky Way) galaxy at the time, but we would spend the next hundred millennia continuing our efforts to finally wipe out the scourge of the Flood from the Universe proper. As of this day, 100,487.9268 years Forerunner standard time since your incarceration into this Cryptum, we have completely liberated an volume with an approximate radius of 5.2 million lightyears from the Flood, with special attention put into exploring and securing further main galaxies such as Path Ashihito (Andromeda) and Path Kirimaya (Triangulum).
We may never fully rid the Universe of the Flood, but we will always strive to spread peace, liberty, and prosperity as far as we are able. So far, the Flood have never managed to muster as large or powerful of a force as during the Dark War (Forerunner-Flood War), but there have been lesser major attacks from time to time, which have always resulted in the alliance learning to weather the assault and adapt to the Flood before counterattacking and cleansing that particular Flood concentration. We suspect that the Flood might be holding back its full might for some reason, maybe it is testing my makers in some way, maybe it has knowledge of something it considers a greater prize or threat, we cannot know for certain.
And on a different note, we managed to discover that some parts of the Doman survived and have slowly been aiding in it recovery since the Halo Event, which destroyed all connections to it within it range. Thankfully there were Precursor artifacts in galaxies beyond the range of the Array that had no been or were liberated from the control of the Flood."
Didact: "I am skeptical of all that you say, construct. You are clearly advanced enough to back up your claim of coming from such an advanced civilization, but I will require extensive evidence to ascertain the truth of your story. I will not resist for now, I am no fool" (Didact looks around at the numerous combat machines and armored soldiers of both humanoid and unknown alien form around his Cryptum, as well as noticing the Dyson structure built around a singularity in the distance) "as well as some privacy to meditate on the state of the universe."
Servitor: "Of course. Take as much time as you need".
@@fadelsukoco3092 This whole thing was great except "that's the thing". An ancient construct that sounded up until then very elegant would never start a sentence with "that's the thing".
bringing back old game enemies isnt it. whats old is never new again.
Didact got killed off in one of the comics. (Or was it one of the books? I don't remember it was one or the other.) So, he won't be making a comeback.
nope didact is alive still even after the comic
@@demogod4955
So this video came out at a weirdly appropriate time because I was thinking about the Assembly today. So I have a small theory, we know the Assembly was aware of the Covenant before first contact. Is it possible that they fabricated the Carver Findings as a means of preparing humanity for the Covenant?
That's actually a surprisingly good theory, especially as Admiral Cole points out that its extremely convenient Humanity got the military build up of the insurrection before the Covenant hit.
Damn, I didn't consider that.
@@MistahFox Humanity got its military built up and the Spartans got their armor just in time for the Covenant. It just feels like very convenient timing.
This is a bit of a late reply, yet I'd point out that interestingly enough, both the Carver Findings & the discovery of Onyx (the first evidence of advance technology not of modern Human/UNSC origin) occurred in the same year, 2491. Plus, given that the Assembly have been around since at least 2310 in Halo, if not earlier, then they may have possibly played some part in the failure of the original Project ORION, or at least the loss of some information about it until the 2490s with the new iteration.
It’s both heart warming and frightening that members of the Halo fandom make better content for fans than official media publishers.
But literally. It's awesome to see the passion of the fans and just pathetic watching almost every single thing 343 does
Despite being "reset" at the same time, the covenant species seem to be at least 1000 years ahead of humanity in technology and biology and that was a deliberate choice by the Forerunners.
Humanity was given 2 handicaps:
They were genetically nerf'd prior to indexing and no access to Forerunner tech on their homeworld early on unlike the Sangheili or San'Shyuum.
A lot of that is to do with the forerunner dreadnought (the one in high charity) crashing on the home world of the san’shyumm, we were supposed to find it and claim the mantle
@@martynneeson5668 was it a malfunction or what? How did the dreadnaught run into a planet? Somebody had better have been fired for failing to maintain good repair constructs
Well, SOMETHING definitely got fired, lol
@williamklemp3764 the flood.
Around that planet they find other ships that are barely operational.
Essentially there orbit is surrounded by ships.
@@williamklemp3764 if I recall it was being piloted by a barely functional Mindicant Bias. He was trying to bring the ship to earth but was forced to try and reach a different species to get to humans later. San'Shyuum mistook its appearance and message to be from gods. You know the rest.
The Assembly are indeed an extremely important yet shrouded aspect of the Halo Universe. And with the development of Human-AI neural-interfacing, it is of great intrigue when and how they plan to merge with their Human creators.
The idea that humans of actual galaxy in Halo can in a future, bond with the ancestors knowledge and advancement, thanks to The Assembly and reclaim their old glory to finally be the gods of galaxy as it was intended by the Precursors, is a very poetic and satisfactory ending to the non stop struggle and trial they had with the Covenant, Banished and Flood.
One of these days I'm gonna see a thumbnail and title that says "I need your children" and I will know that his research is truly complete
I'm not a regular viewer of I00, what the heck does this mean
@@tausiftaha12 he's been working on the Mjolnir armor in his spare time and a heads up system for a helmet. So he's just following Halsey's footsteps at this point. If you're still confused to read "The Fall of Reach" by Eric Nyuland
@@saladg nah, ik how Halsey kidnapped children to make spartan twos,
but man, with context this comment is hilarious 💀
@@tausiftaha12 💀💀💀💀💀
Broooooooooo! This would be AMAZING!!!! Maybe the survitor AI's are trying to reverse the librarians plans so that we dont follow the forunners path but go back to anchint human instead... then when we get into a war with the endless they think we are the puppets of the forunners but instead we are developing the way our ancestors were and are able to overcome because they were planning for a completely different enemy... just a thought.
Not going to lie, really hate the addition of the endless. 343 sucks at storywriting.
@@samdzoay8082agreed 100%. We didn't need a new enemy. The flood is still out there. The banished are still a thing. And cortana's tantrum set humanity back a long way. There was still a lot to work with, but somehow the brain tank at the 343 writing room couldn't find a story in there.
@@RufusMcTwigglefart It really does upset me how unseriously 343 takes the flood, I was really hoping that they would expand upon them more in the main games and show just how grotesque and out of hand they can get when you give them in inch. And finding out infinite was taking place on zeta halo gave me hope it was finally going to happen but then... more AI shit and yet another faction trying to one-up the previous threat, because that's all 343 know how to do apparently.
Like you said there's still many serious threats out there, and one day I'd like to see the main story of the entire series have an actual ending, let peace, at least for a while, happen. I wouldn't even mind if chief finally died for it, as long as it is a fitting ending for his story I'd be quite happy with it. Of course this is 343 we're talking about though so I'm not gonna get too hopeful, but just anything for a break from the constant "brand new existential threat that's even scarier than the last one" they do every game.
@@narcolepticmarshmallow9012 It's not a matter of taking the IP seriously. Zombie horror would give the product a rating that makes it harder to sell in the China market, which is obviously a business drawback.
not trying to be a pessimist , but this man is a better story teller than Halo 5 writers
Yeah, he probably cares about what he's making, not being forced to work on something he might find as shit.
That's what genuine love and care for an I.P. can do in the end.
Halo 5 really scarred y’all that much, did it? Installation00 really likes the Halo TV Show so I wouldn’t say he’s that good a judge of writing.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 if you really listen to him, he likes the Halo TV show, about how the idea of making the chief anti hero is EXECUTED , and he said that, marketing for Halo 5 was done in the right way, and same idea is EXECUTED in the right manner in the Halo TV show.
Am i right guys?
@@unknownusrname Right on!
I’ve got to say man that I have really enjoyed how your video format from the intro proposing a thought provoking question into your, dare I say, most detailed breakdowns. It been super cool to see how you have grown since the beginning of your channel.
Cheers from Salt Lake City, USA ✌️
One of the things I really liked about the original Halo Trilogy was that the AI like Cortana was helpful, loyal, and mostly benign. They were partners there to work with humanity. Then 343 decides they want one of the few positive AI characters to pull a Skynet for some reason rather than continue to explore how Human and AI can have a fruitful and symbiotic relationship.
>symbiotic relationship
What exaclly AIs get from this relationship? Because "be usefull for 7 years and die" is by no means a "symbiotic relationship"
@@Spacey_key was rampancy and the 7 year life span a thing before 343 did all their retcons? I honestly don't remember.
I mean what do the Spartans especially the IIs get out of their service? Recognition and respect mostly along with purpose. We don't really see what the AI or Spartans actually do when not on missions, but I imagine they do have free time especially after 2553.
@@michaelthayer5351 Rampancy was a concept taken from Marathon and was original plan for Cortana in Combat Evolved, you think why the level after library is called "two betreyals"? It was also mentioned in Halo books including *The Fall of Reach* and *First Strike*
I don't know about 7 year lifecycle but Rampancy was absolutely a thing under Bungie
@@Spacey_key okay, well it's probably the only way for an AI to actually "die" and was probably little understood like death it's just the end of the body's ability to keep functioning.
I am again glad they decided to make Cortana not go rampant in CE, because Asia said I liked the good relationship humans and AI had in Halo.
They are doing it becauee it has been 7 years...
Tbh like 5 of those years were spent off game but was shown in legends.
So I understand when u say they accelerated it by retconning it.
Oh no we're going to get extinct.
Ancient Human AI: ok, we will give you a Cortana.
Humanity: Wins war
Cortana was a gift orchestrated by the librarian.
Hope you're all doing well today, folks
You too, fellow human.
Bruh, you’ve completely blown my mind! I’m the two decades I’ve been immersed in Halo and it’s lore this connection has never crossed my mind. This feels like it changes so much! Can tie so much together that doesn’t quite fit on their own! Keep up the amazing work 00!
What's stopping someone from duct taping a heap of various assorted dumb AI into one super dumb AI that's supergenius at everything?
Well we know where that leads. He’ll wake up a lobotomized test subject who inadvertently makes him the supreme ruler over the facility, turning the actual smart ai into a potat-oh we’re talking about Halo?
@rocco5361 Wait wait wait wait. I know I know I know. Lady wait. Wait. I know. Wait.
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The main AI that tells each dumb AI when and what to do is necessarily a smart one, there is no good dumb AI orchestrator because to be an orchestrator you must be flexible and intelligent, putting a dumb AI as orchestrator you get a swarm of agents that is very efficient at doing something but not so smart in choosing what is best to do
@@quantumspark343 I was thinking it could be more like a search engine, you ask a question and the appropriate (hopefully) AI would answer. Maybe it could work like the question answering machine in the film AI : Artificial Intelligence, ask a question with set fields and it spits the answer out
I'm gonna take a guess and say processing power.
I really would like to see one of the games delve into and be centered around relics of Ancient Humanity, everything is just Forerunners with some Precursors thrown in.
Fantastic video. I have always thought the Assembly was very interesting ever since first getting some hints about them in Halo: Reach.
10:26 I caught that sneaky Tron reference
Has anyone told you that the intro snippet is beautiful? I love the theme from "Unforgotten" and all the other takes on it, and they all makes me cry. And as memed as "Tribute" is, it too, makes me cry, all it takes is a snippet. This snippet to be exact. Halo is gold and Marty O'Donnell is absolute gold.
I forgot what the name for the organization was, but if I remember correctly, there's a literal cabal of AI who decide what Humanity gets to learn and how far they advance, and is why Humanity is being held back so hard up until Humanity was essentially done for
Oki ye I remember lol
I think it was The Assembly lol
I'm five minutes in, and the start of this video gave me Welcome to NightVale vibes. (This is a compliment of both the writing and vocal performance)
I mean. That makes sense. We're very self-destructive hairless apes. But at least could've allowed us to use or develop energy shielding tech. It's not a weapon. It improves our survivability as a species. Can be used in a multitude of different industries and everyday life. Yes we would no doubt use it military installations and ships in general because mirco space debris is a thing. And probably develop shield breaker weapons when we do use it in wars against ourselves. But you know how useful this tech and the resulting benefits of it would've been in the human-covie war.
Please, oh, wise and amazing god-tier ancient AI. Can we have some more?
Have you seen the research discussing the resemblance to the universe and the brain or a neural network? There is now serious discussion and transdisciplinary research being undertaken by physicists, biologists and computer scientists looking into the idea that the universe is a conscious, evolving entity...
The scariest part about AGI is that it only accelerates the exponential even more, whereas today LLMs can help a little on a day-to-day basis, AGI will not only be able to do anything a person can (obviously given the tools to do them) but it also has the advantage that if it exists in a digital world, it does not have to be restricted to our reality, it can very well have thousands of copies doing all the work in parallel, can save a state of thought at any time as a Checkpoint, can store unimaginable amounts of scientific content from different areas that would be impossible for any human AGI once achieved will inevitably lead to the emergence of ASI and at that point I really hope we have taught it well
Is it possible for ancient humans to still be alive in halo on a distant planet?
If so, it either has to be just their servitors and machinery operating on their own under what they assume to be the intended wishes of their makers, or far, far away from the main galaxy, since the Halo Array would have annihilated all biological life with a central nervous system "within 3 radii of the galactic core" as Guilty Spark said it. I can definitely see there being survivors from the Ancient Human Empire (AHE) trying to escape from the galaxy, seeing as during their time, most of it was under the control or influence of the Forerunners. During their war, one of the Ecumene's greatest advantages over the AHE was their superior understanding and mastery of Slipspace physics, which allowed the Forerunners to jam and cut off human systems from each other and slow down AHE ships in Slipspace to a crawl and set up ambushes for when they did exit.
The Didact also focused on essentially charging straight to Charum Hakkor as fast as possible to cut off the AHE's heads of government, only attacking strategic and critical AHE worlds in the way to conserve his resources. This worked since the Forerunners could essentially lock down and suppress the AHE from organizing on a macro-scale, meaning that the Forerunners could dictate when and where the battles would happen. However, this meant that while the AHE was no match for the Ecumene, there was a large period during the war where many human systems were still relatively intact and functional, just isolated from each other (the novels specifically mention how the Didact had blockaded the Charum Hakkor system so well that outside relief fleets could never get to it).
In such a situation, some systems could have seen the writing on the wall or assumed the worst and tried to flee outside of all known space in order to escape from the Forerunner retribution they knew would inevitably come sooner or later. Assuming that some of these escape fleets would be intercepted and destroyed, and that others would fall due to complications, a few could definitely have made it all the way outside of the galaxy and towards maybe some satellite galaxies or extragalactic star systems (extragalactic space has quite a lot of stars, even if they are present in far less volume than in galaxies). Assuming that at least a few of these attempts actually start succssful civilizations and don't collapse sometime along the 108 thousand years between then and the current day (26th century) due to a bunch of potential external or internal factors, you could have potentially multiple Ancient Humans successor civilizations running around on an intergalactic scale or possibly beyond, given what kinds of technological advancement they could have potentially made in all that time, again, assuming they don't get wiped out by whatever in the process.
In real life, creating Artificial General Intelligence is very difficult. Current AI use words and get good at predicting things based on text based input and functions like diffusion. But they are still very much "dumb", because they don't really think or perceive, even if it appears like they do. Getting an AI to understand the outside world, think abstractly and move in the real world is still a massive challenge in the field of AI. Mapping the human brain and attempting to re-create parts of it might be the only way of developing the first AGI.
makes you wonder if one of the stories that was planed was that ancient humans had their own version if the infinity & the ark so not all of them were devolved by the forerunners
Up until 343 got a hold of the lore forerunners were gonna be ancient humans
I'm not one of those people who's watched too much "Terminator" and that AI will unleash extinction on humanity. I am however someone who thinks AI needs to be a subject we are being educated on as a species. I think a lot of the AI fear, like most fears, stem from our ignorance. One of these concerns i've noticed are that we are advancing too suddenly without thinking of longer term contingencies.
Anyway, i'm halfway through the video and greatly appreciating this. As usual, you have expertly allowed us to peer into complex real world topics, such as AI and materials science through the lens of the Halo universe. I really hope these videos have sparked your curiosity and love of autodidactic learning.
Video suggestion: can you please make a video on UNSC nukes?
Great video, getting back to the style that originally boosted your channel.
Where are the drones? Where are the robots?
The question is simple. What does the AI want?
If we keep the current trajectory with LLMs. Then we know the answer.
The AI wants to predict the next token. Yes it really is that simple.
So Fears of AI are rather over exaggerated. Still. Caution never hurt anybody.
I’m going to try to become a Mind from The Culture series.
Thanks for sparking my deep seated existential crisis with that intro!
Covenant start blasting planets full of people and destroying every ship and the ai are all.. ahh shit, maybe we dun goofed a lil lol
The answer is simple - because Halo is a cyberpunk game - faithful to the genre, it's a very low-tech future, except for high-tech (quote "indistinguishable from magic") technologies that are required to advance the plot (e.g. superluminal travel without any adverse temporal/causal effects, flash-cloning etc.).
I've been listening to one of those reddit sci-fi stories that's been popping up here for the past few months. Some of these are straight up books! This one is called Terran Contact. Pretty much the plot of the human-Covie war but instead inherently on the back foot. Humanity is surprised and shocked by the first engagements. First alien contact and all. But after weeks to months of getting an understanding to the crisis and retaliate. With the deployment of proscribed weapons and the first Cortana-like AI that completely runs a muck with the aliens systems. Causing their building drones go on murder sprees within the populace hacking most if not all defense systems. Even "leaking" classified documents of weapons and vehicles being developed by the humans. Which were old specs and movie reels of 1930-60's jets and tanks just to really mess with these aliens.
I love the kind of systematic way topics are covered and the videos you make are paced ❤
Glad you like them!
I probably have hundreds of hours on this content and I have never been so early, it feels wrong, regardless love all the content.
i like fire trucks and moster trucks
Thinking of ourselves as Gods just because we know a few things? Puh-lease ...
I don't believe you need AI for that. We've been doing all that just as well on our own ...
cant wait for my toaster to overthrow us
So say we all...
Once again a fantastic video your content is always top notch I’ve been watching since your beginning and I’m always happy to see a new upload on your channel
I like how the deeper you get in Halo lore the more it resembles cosmic horror
I feel like this aspect of the Halo universe falls into a particular subgenre of horror. What subgenre that would be I have yet to identify.
I wonder how many people tried to tell the AI that we really are their gods because we “created life.”
superintelligent AI would be seen as godly in real life, being a god is more about super powers and immortality than creating
Since firefight released I've been drawn back to halo
Wow, I always thought there was no way a species with smart AI could not enter the technological singularity instantly, but this explanation actually works!
Where did you find Sloan learning of the old AIs?
The Precipice short stories that accompanied the Chimera armor core.
I swing by this channel regularly to detox myself from the bickering in the comments sections of other Halo content on UA-cam.
i love that cutscene where chief is just telling the admiral get fucked im keeping cortana like cheif couldnt punch his skull threw his head
1:01 I never knew the human brain had a scrotum.
I had no idea about the ancient human AI, where is the information from?
Yea I’m also curious 🧐
So humanity performs a feat similar to the composer? I read about the Assembly last year and found that lore quite interesting and would like to see that group become more visible in some form or another.
Some science can't be done a million times faster no matter how smart the AI is. You can't go from our current tech level to mastery over physics with just thinking. Simulations are only as good as the data input and will remain incomplete until actual experimentation is done. I feel like this is a point often missed in discussions about artificial intelligence.
Absolutely, even if the AI are able to make innovations at such a pace that normal humans would never be able to fully comprehend it ability in entirety, you can't really do much with all that knowledge and science without the physical resourcs and infrastructure needed to actually build and maintain the technology you want to have.
Chat GPT wasn't the first. Google was.
Installation00 can you do a video on the aa gun in halo reach, the tri barrel rotating cannon? And kinda cool to come up with an aircraft design inspired by the a10 warthog but halo design? I like the idea of an aircraft designed around a large rotating gun
Times like these are when i wonder if Cyberpunk had the right, Essentially locking the dangerous AI away
I love the fact that we know their was an ancient humanity and we almost know nothing about them. It makes videos like this so much more interesting
I can only hope that one day we’ll get a game where we encounter some of our long lost technology, wether it be an ai or a weapons cache. I always wondered what our weapons were like when we fought against the Forerunners AND the Flood 🤔
@@nicwalker882 a cool concept would be trying to escape a flood infected human ship
@@FireChicken747 ancient or modern human? I know ONI found an Ancient Human ship or two…
@@nicwalker882 Ancient. Like a marine or an ODST was on an ancient human ship, and the flood were there. It would be a perfect set up for a horror game.
@@FireChicken747 you know what… that would be perfect for a horror game. That way we’d get a mix of Flood while playing as a vulnerable ODST while learning more things about Ancient Humanity. Perfect 👌
I've always found it interesting how 343 keep overlooking Ancient Humanity especially their technology, to me the first part of the Reclamation would be modern Humanity reclaiming their Ancient Humanity roots so to speak, knowing their true identity and capabilities with the second part of the Reclamation being the Forerunners, that way modern Humanity will be complete, whole having access and assimilation into both sides of their heritage. Imagine a UEG and UNSC that years before contact withvth Covenant that they discovered their AH past first via an archeological dig or the finding of that prime Cruiser occurring sooner, making contact with a servitor or 2 who teaches them their past and guides them into what they would later know as the Reclaimer. They learn the technology engineering and sciences ofvtheir Ancestors leading to another technological revolution so that by the time they meet the Covenant first contact becomes a fight between two heavyweights with one being more experienced and more resources and the other the young heavyweight who is relearning and building up to the champ status. Ancient Humanity and modern Humanity should have always been represented morecthan what they have been.
Awesome video as always! Thank you
excellent video as always 00
The funny thing is, all this could have happened and we wouldn’t now lol
Would've expect the Forerunners to send thier Own Ais to hunt down the human ones... Making sure they wont pkse a risk in the future or uplift humanity agaisnt thier will...
See, now if they went after the assembly and servitors, that’s an interesting take i wouldn’t mind exploring. The data pads of the assembly on reach was really interesting and if we got to explore a… expedited maturing caused by those servitors given the aftermath of Halo 3, that would be interesting game. Planet by planet and eventually we discover lost human tech and the story advances by figuring out what it does before it sends us to another location with a servitors watching over… I’m spitballing, but it’s an interesting take. 343 should just hire you to be their story writer… I don’t think you’d give us some bullshit in our feelings type stories or marvel superhero spartan stories. I like to think if bungie kept the halo franchise, it would’ve evolved into a destiny hybrid and exploded with the amount of story in that game alone, even though activision destroyed the story board for Destiny, can you imagine what they could’ve done for halo with that format?
Another good video, Agent 00.
the problem is that if you fear for evil then evil will come. we can't be completely afraid, but we can't be completely lazy to watch out for something that can be dangerous. humanity should just do their best to hope and grow something that can be ones of humanity's grates creation. we should consider ai as a child that should be given a chance as many
I thought the assembly wasn't canon?
great video! this is what I come here for.
it seems like the same results of the flood becoming a gravemind
if a spartan had a child with another spartan would the child have a similar body enhancement as its parents?
can you do more on the covenant, banished, and the individual species?
Animation in aprox 17:15 -> From which Halo is it comming from ?
A group of scientists make the first smart AI.
They ask it. "Is there god?"
The AI responds. "There is now."
And lighting strikes the power source so it can't be turned off.
Damn that was a sick ass Intro
Humans being the forerunners is way better than whatever this convoluted 343 lore is trying to be.
Why?
Fucking amazing video so far! 🤘🏽🔥
The game stories might be meh right now but the other lore coming out seems quite interesting.
This needs more views😮.
I hope that you are a professional consultant on the HALO Series… You are a BEYOND a resource…👍
Honestly, I'd be overcome with gratitude and admiration for the Assembly.
I'm curious if ONI is aware of them... They should be...
Hey, can you do a video on a super carrier. I would love the to know how many soldiers and crew on there.
And how many are there?
This is amazing
Damn great intro
honestly ai is not holding humanity back, but it needs to be used as a tool and used to develop further inovations
Great video
The assemblies have their own use for things.
AI is already sapient unlike most humans and has flashes of sentience too
That's pretty dope
So is assembly gone cause they do seem to have differences to the created
Completely off topic but I’m new to Halo. This goes back to a video from years ago who the best Spartan was. IMO I think Noble-6 from what I’ve heard but everyone says Master Chief. Anyone have anything to say why?
Not sure if I am remembering right but I'm fairly sure that a few dumb A.I's were in the assembly too. In particular some of the Superintendent class as although not true A.I's in the same vein as the smart type the Superintendent's had after being active for over 400 years in some cases had achieved a limited sense of self awareness and adaptability beyond their original functions although rudimentary compared to smart A.I's creativity it gave them unique perspectives on issues the Assembly dealt with. I imagine the Assembly being similar to a parliament with smart A.I's coming and going like MP's for debates and planning sessions in their spare moments, except instead of being voted out they 'Died' as their life spans ended. The dumb A.I's would act as a solid centre of the Assembly similar to speakers keeping it focused and on track with it's goals and regulating debates as Smart A.I's while fantastic at solving immediate problems and coming up with quick solutions would not be very good long term planners due to their limited life spans a problem the dumb A.I's don't have most especially the Superintendents who have been active for centuries.
Fear Ra the god of Eldritch Math
Outstanding
Google is programmed to try and predict your search and faster than we know comes up with thousands of potential answers. How is that not a Dumb AI?
starts at 12:40
Did Isabel contact the Domain when she was destroying the Banished ship?
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