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Big Hero 6 one-shot
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Author: u/MadScientist14159 WIP: Sodium Hypochlorite (Rational Bleach) Eventually. Maybe.*
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3bd8af/big_hero_6_oneshot/
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Score: 33
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Created: 2015-06-28T02:58:25
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"Tadashi is here.", Baymax insisted.
I sighed. Not this again.
"He's not here. Tadashi is dead."
"Tadashi is here."
I wondered briefly whether the AI was just going through grief at its father's death. If this was how it expressed the first stage: denial.
"No." I told it firmly, "Tadashi died. I watched him die." 'And I wonder how much permanent mental scarring that caused...' I thought bitterly. "So just shut up, will you?" I immediately regretted raising my voice, but it was just too much. The AI was programmed to heal my body but this constant insistence of my brother's presence was only harming my mind. How was I supposed to let go with... this?
"Tadashi is here."
"Then where the hell is he?! Go on! Point to him!" I shouted, finally losing my temper.
Baymax did not point.
A very small part of me felt smug at having defeated the machine, but it was a hollow victory and I instantly began hating myself for it. This was something my brother had poured his heart and soul into and I had just crushed its spirit. Damn it. Why did I have to deal with this? Why did Tadashi have to give this thing emotions? ...Or was I just projecting? I probably was, come to think of it. Humans were bad with that kind of thing.
The screen on Baymax's chest lit up. It showed a medical scan. A window opened and displayed code in a language I didn't recognise, it scrolled down quickly, but the scroller-bar didn't seem to move.
"What is that?" I asked it.
"A complete biological scan of Tadashi at the moment of death."
A section of the code, as well as the CNS on the scan image highlighted purple.
"Tadashi is here."
Comments:
u/LiteralHeadCannon [+8] (5 hours later)
I was kind of expecting the movie to go into potential AI problems more (in a simplified, family-friendly way, obviously). To be specific, I was expecting the moment where he scans the entire city to lead into a hilarious scene where he tries to fix the medical problems of literally everyone in the entire city, and Hiro can't stop him and get him back to the main task because healing people overrides it.
u/codahighland [+8] (15 hours later)
I like this idea, although it's worth noting that Baymax is a PERSONAL healthcare companion. His primary directive is to ensure the health and well-being of his assigned patient. On the assumption that "bedside manner" is something that he's been programmed to observe, fluttering around the city performing ninja-like feats of sudden medicine before moving on is certainly not conducive to giving his assigned patient respect and attention.
u/Nevereatcars [+6] The Greatest Is Behind (2 days later)
ninja-like feats of sudden medicine
I have my next short story concept.
u/codahighland [+1] (2 days later)
You're welcome. :D
u/Arandur [+1] (11 hours later)
Aww. Now I'm sad.
u/fljared [+4] United Federation of Planets (an hour later)
Dear Lord, I never considered the possible implications of the ability to "biologically scan" a person, an ability that was, in hindsight, ridiculously vague in the original movie.
u/Transfuturist [+6] Carthago delenda est. (2 hours later)
The biological scan depicted in the movie is pretty much ludicrously impossible. It's able to scan DNA from dozens of miles away (and store and process the data of all persons in range), which is how they found the Kitsune's hideout.
u/libertarian_reddit [+11] (4 hours later)
Everything about that movie is ludicrously impossible. Not to mention the technology developed should completely change the face of humanity.
u/Transfuturist [+7] Carthago delenda est. (18 hours later)
"Because my unsecured, unoverrideable access to a literally revolutionary technology was used for a bad thing, it clearly must never be used for anything."
That was what I most hated about the movie. It's a small hate, though.
u/libertarian_reddit [+2] (a day later)
Forget the microbots(?), Baymax is freaking self aware AI!
u/Transfuturist [+2] Carthago delenda est. (a day later)
But he wasn't, really.
u/codahighland [+1] (15 hours later)
I don't think DNA is one of the things Baymax can scan at range, nor would it be necessary, as much lower-resolution details would be sufficient for positive identification.
u/Transfuturist [+3] Carthago delenda est. (18 hours later)
No, in the movie, they literally used the Kitsune's DNA to find him from miles away. And they scanned through miles of buildings.
u/codahighland [+1] (a day later)
... whoops. Been a few months since I've seen it. ^^() I thought it was scanning vital signs; I didn't remember DNA being the specific marker being used.
u/TBestIG [+1] Every second of quibbling is another dead baby (2 days later)
No, they used his health data, whatever that means. Height, build, blood type, heart problems, allergies, pre-existing conditions, disorders, and any diseases he might have had. It's still not realistic, but it's not quite as ridiculous as finding DNA from a distance
u/callmebrotherg [+6] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (an hour later)
This is wonderful. Thank you. :,,,,)
u/ThatDamnSJW [+1] (15 hours later)
But then you wonder why Tadashi would call it just a personal healthcare companion and not something related to storing people or resurrecting them.
u/MadScientist14159 [+5] WIP: Sodium Hypochlorite (Rational Bleach) Eventually. Maybe. (15 hours later)
An unintended consequence of having such powerful diagnostic tools?
Or maybe the AI is self-modifying and it considers resurrection to be just another part of its healthcare duties, a part that Tadashi didn't properly equip it to deal with, but that's fine! It can modify itself to be able to correctly perform its job, regardless of Tadashi's oversights.
u/codahighland [+3] (15 hours later)
Perhaps Tadashi didn't realize the implications. He was pretty intensely focused on building an awesome robot to help people rather than thinking about the long-term implications beyond "help people."