"F**k S.A.M. !!!" or "Bioware pushing its roboesoteric agenda again"

Honestly, I have an app on my phone that lets me input the foods I consume, track how much walking I do and check my heart rate.  What SAM will be doing is a step up from that and probably just a few years away from being a reality.

It's fine if you don't care for it.  I don't see this as trolling but perhaps you're open to seeing what others think of it come March 21st before making a final decision?

Now call it whining, call it trolling, call it what you want but I need to get something out of my system. So far I've actually been excited about the new Mass Effect game. They made a lot of right decisions with it so far in my eyes. Making a story about exploring and colonizing new worlds? Wonderful, that's what I wanted from ME in the first place. Bringing the Mako back? Awesome, loved it. Getting rid of a morality system? Perfect, I had a lot of problems with Bioware's idea of right and wrong.
Now with just one decision Bioware crushed all my excitement. S.A.M. the AI. "From his node in the Ark, SAM receives a direct feed of the Pathfinder's sensory input via a neural implant. It sees and feels as Ryder does...".
Excuse me, what ?!? You know, I was fine with a ship AI like EDI, but for goodness sake, it should be my decision whether I allow a goddamn AI into my characters body. I wholeheartedly rejected synthesis in the ending of ME3. Now an AI is supposed to be an inseparable part of my character, changing and influencing him/her all while my character has absolutely no control over it and can't shut it off. This is synthesis creeping in through the back door. Remember how one of the ME3 writers said they actually believe what the Star Kid says about synthesis being inevitable? Well, there you have it.
Also, remember Javik's story about the Zha and the Zha'til? Remember what happened to Saren and the Illusive man? All I thought was, those idiots can only blame themselves for allowing technology they don't control and they don't understand into their bodies. Now I am supposed to play the same kind of idiot. It's obvious Bioware will once again advertise the game by saying how this is our story and Ryder our character. No character I would call mine, in fact no character I would respect, would allow an AI into his/her body. And it's obvious they will use S.A.M to push their robofetishist message some more just like they did with EDI and the Geth. So it won't be my story either cuz if it's not my message, it's not my story. 
So there it is, got it out of my system (actually feel a little better now). Two last things. One, to all you Sci-Fi writers who keep pushing your roboesoteric and transhumanism agenda. You are more annoying than Jehova's whitnesses with your Pinocchio messiah. Two, I actually was excited about MEA, I really was. And I really loved the ME universe minus the preachy Pinocchio stuff. But if the last thing I ever did in this universe was shooting that damn tube, flipping the bird to Star Kid and its synthesis and sending every Pinocchio in the Milky Way to robot hell, I'm perfectly fine with that.    

And now I'm off to find out if Star Citizen will have Pinocchio stuff in it. And if yes, I swear, I'm going to buy No Man's Sky. F**k's sake, there has to be one damn game about space exploration without Pinocchio stuff in it.

Err. not really. If anything it's a middle finger to the holokid. And based that alone I 100% support it.

Remember the whole "organics and synthetics will always fight because 'art' and some crap I just made up" (redundant I know)? Here's an AI created and working with organics just fine. It's not really synthesis. It's a deeper interface than we've seen before but there's no real merging (or at least we've seen no evidence to that effect).

It's discount JARVIS but skipping a step guys. Nothing more.

How is it a middle finger when Synthesis was "the ideal solution" according to it?  It didn't want Ai/organic cooperation, which it thought was impossible.  It wanted Ai/organic melding (that is organic uplift through technology: transhumanism).  Having an AI interacting with an organic's brain appears to be preliminary steps of precisely what it was aiming for on a cursory inspection.  As I say, I'm not worked up about it, but the theme is too heavy to make me think they just dropped it.  I'm quite capable of just rolling my eyes at it and enjoying the game anyway. 

Stephen Hawking has not really showed a very big excitement to the idea of AI and instead repeat the danger of a true AI plus I don't think he qualify as a pseudo-scientist, I still tend to trust the guy who actually know about science than the one who basicaly reject it.

Mass Effect has always show the danger of uncheck AI and that one awesome invention could become organic worst nightmare.
Saying that Bioware is trying to push transhumanism because of EDI or SAM would be as pertinent as saying it is pushing transhumanism hate with Reaper and EDI.
Looking at this as a pushing agenda of something that do not exist is maybe a bit over the top ? Can we let SF be SF ? I mean the mass effect is BS but I really don't mind it in a fictional game, I don't think it is pushing any kinetic/psychic agenda neither is the Force in Star Wars.

At no point it was said S.A.M. was able to make decision or influence human in any other way than relaying information. I feared way more EDI because she was partially free, if she wanted to screw everyone she could have. For now S.A.M. is just a physical enhancer and communication device, he doesn't seem much different than a computer.
If S.A.M. had more ability, like taking decision without consent or control it would be really dangerous but technology is not magic.
If S.A.M. turns out to be dangerous, it is okay, not because transhumanism or whatever but because Mass Effect is a SF story and it having SF plot is just common sense.

This hurts me.


SAM is physically located on Hyperion and keeps a connection with the Pathfinder through implants, I assume the other Arks/Nexus have their own AIs also connected to their Pathfinders.

Using AI to regulate/automate stuff on the Arks/Nexus during the cryostasis makes sense, similar to Vigil/Victory, tho they were VIs.

It's possible that the other AIs are actually VIs but Alec/Ellen improved SAM specifically turning it into AI, or the Arks/Nexus simply required a more powerful automated system thus the use of AI instead of VI.

Maybe it is to keep control of the Pathfinders?, like Miranda wanted to do with Shepard on ME2 (control-chip).
Would be quite the twist if Cerberus is involved in doing so, especially if Cora Harper is actually related to the Illusive Man.

I disagree, storytelling-wise, that would be a great final conflict for the end of this game or the next one.
Also, let's remember we are not the only ones with that implant, 4 other pathfinders had it.
If there is a real connection with SAM and our mother, maybe we are the only one not affected by that kind of control. But at the end we have to do something about it.

Well it is not hard to understand why someone would have an enhancer and a communication device for its body, no information show S.A.M. to be more than that.
And Adam Jensen did not ask for it but he certainly use it and upgraded it.

Shepard is full of implant and in permanent connexion with EDI, not that different.
It is not like they build something like "We have no idea what it can do, it can change is programation alone and we are not going to watch it".

Rebel AI in mass effect were build like that. Geth were concieved to protect themself and learn things on their own.
Reapers were build to find a solution the Leviathan couldn't find themselves.
The A.I. never took chaotic choice in mass effect, it has always been according to their programation, there is no maloveince, I don't see what S.A.M. could do except "He magicaly become evil, and get power he never had before like mind control..."

ME:A has nothing to do with ME3 and the ending and you just have to deal with it