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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A series of stories, originally by Keith Laumer, that were later expanded into a Shared Universe by other authors. They detail the exploits of the Bolo, autonomous AI tanks that are supposed to have evolved from the standard main battle tank of the 20th century.These aren't your normal tanks. For one, their designers decided that bigger was better, and since the only thing that could really take down a Bolo was another Bolo, they just kept building the Bolos bigger and bigger, to the point where even the stealth tanks mass 1,500 tons.note For comparison purposes, modern MBTs mass around 60 to 70 tons, give or take a bit. Or in some novels the Mark XXXIII weighs 32,000 tons. note Which is pretty close to the weight of the USS New Mexico, a World War 2 era battleship. For another, they are keenly intelligent, often with surprisingly human personalities. Quite a few of the stories focus on the relationships between the Bolos and their human commanders, because no matter how well they get on, the mountain of armour-clad metal bristling with weaponry is programmed to/wants to (the line gets murky at times) defend the squishy humans at all costs. For while there have been Bolos who were historians, knights, poets, spies and gardeners, they are warriors first and foremost, born to fight alongside their human comrades.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with someone the police wants to find, the type of neck-tie, "cake" in Portuguese, or the traditional weapon of Argentinian gauchos (or of Filipino warriors). | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. Every documented case where a Bolo appeared to have turned rogue has thus far simply been the result of the Bolos obeying their mission directives in unanticipated ways, or of extensive battle damage impairing their functions (or both). Played with in "Traitor." It turns out that a supposedly "rogue" Bolo was carrying human survivors, and took a massive amount of damage to what is essentially its brain and thought everything with a weapon was trying to attack said human survivors (Including other Bolos). That's right: in order for a Bolo to go rogue, it had to have a massive chunk of its brain vaporized, essentially lobotomizing it. And even then it was still trying to protect humanity. Another story involved a Bolo that literally drives itself insane with the paranoia involved in working out untold trillions of scenarios for alien attack on the planet it's protecting. Once it goes insane, it becomes even more dependable, since the deepest programming in all Bolos is an unbreakable loyalty program that activates if the Bolo becomes dangerous to its own side. The Bolo recovers after an attack, which breaks the endless self-reinforcing programming loop that created its paranoia.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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