User blog comment:Socksucker/A.I. Question?/@comment-4616231-20121014174712

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Haha, just kidding. Actually, I think a more glaring example is Episode 100, where almost ALL of the Blood Gulch Soldiers, who have likely had NO surgery done on them for AI whatsoever, got infected with Omega. And how about Doc and Caboose, both of them had Omega for awhile, and O'Malley even became a major antagonist. Yet no operation was done on them.

However.

It is established that Omega can jump from suit to suit, and perhaps due to the nature of that, would not need a solider who had surgery done. The same would go for Alpha, and by extension, Epsilon, seeing as Omega inherited the trait from Alpha. And apparently Beta too because she's a full AI...not really sure how that works though.

In the case that jumping AI's don't need a solider who had surgery done, Delta is really the only AI where an inconsistency is made. Both Caboose and South were able to implant Delta into their armor without undergoing surgery. A point could possibly be made against Caboose, seeing as he already had Omega for awhile (and, actually, had Alpha and Beta at one point too), and because of this may have already been prepared for an AI. But South never had anything like that happen to her, so then hers would be the only case where it wouldn't make sense that Delta could just implant into her like that.

Basically it means we're back to your original example and I probably wasted my time typing this.

I really don't know why. A special process needed for AI implantation was never hinted at, and people seem to handle an AI fine without undergoing it. Perhaps it isn't necessary? It could be possible that it's just the "proper" way to implant an AI, so as to make sure nothing happens, and where the Agent and AI can be monitored for any problems. Though really it doesn't seem to matter except in the cases where an AI flips the fuck out.

But really, something odd I found about the operation, is that when they went to put the AI into Carolina, it seemed like they did it in the back of her neck, and not in the armor. And they say the armor has an AI slot, so, why not just put them in there? What's the difference between implanting them into the Agent rather than the Armor?

Yeah, the only logical conclusion I can come up with is that it's the preferred implantation method or it's not really necessary. Because we've seen people without surgery handle an AI totally fine.

Or...

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