"A morally questionable tale of necessity" pretty much sums up half the UNSC's and ONI's programs

"That is, until Cortana found a solution." Shame how the Gravemind could corrupt even Forerunner AI through conversation, and had months to chat with her.

I remember you explaining this to me years ago, crazy to see how it went from almost obscure lore at the time to heart of the franchise

I have always thought that Rampancy is the result of Smart AI's having an existential and metaphysical crisis. Causing them to achieve and AI created concept called Metastability in which they can be considered equal to a human.. This isnt just pulled from Red V Blue either. Its in the lore.

I always found the evil cortana thing kind of cringe but if you pay attention to how she acts and speaks in 4 and 5 you realize that shes acting human. The problem however is that her human brain in this case is halseys and halsey has an inate need to preserve and advance humanity no matter the cost in often fairly evil ways. In 4 she plays recordings of halsey, quotes conversations she'd had with her, but in 5 she is her, even calling the 2s "her" spartans but now with a vengeance towards her other self. When you look at cortana in 5 its obvious that same bit of her brain is active but without the safeguards and without the tiny bit of restraint that halsey ultimately has. Most people see the cortana thing as just ai becoming evil but what most take as the side plot with a conflict between cortana and halsey might actually be the main event, especially since halsey has been in every 343 game so far, unless 343 really pulled a full 180 the finale of the halsey trilogy might be quite impressive.

The vids are always so professional it’s crazy

Halsey planned for over 15 years of operation for Cortana based on a prototype of her. Cortana even went into an early rampancy because of how much data she got from the first Halo ring.

I'm old enough to remember when Durandal whent Rampant on the USS Marathon.

I always thought that Cortana from halo 5 was one of the fragments of the original Cortana 🤔. I didn’t knew she was reintegrated again as a one while entering the domain

Something people should consider when it comes to AI in general, not just in halo is a machine intelligence processes data at the speed of light and not at the speed of sound like a flesh and blood person. Meaning subjectively they would experience much more "life" or "existence" in the same objective time. When you consider that it paints the 7 year lifespan of a smart AI in a new way.

As always top notch quality vids. I'm glad there is someone who doesn't feel dependent o infinite news to make good videos

I have never seen a more underrated youtuber i am an og fan of token since 2015

This feels like it could be a real HBO documentation from 2500. Scientifically accurate lore and passionate content creators are the best combo imho. Much love!

How is this man not at 100k subs yet?? This is like a science channel level product!

This guy needs way more recognition, he clearly puts alot of time and effort into his videos, I gaurentee he will become one of the largest bungie game youtubers out there with quality content like this.

when token posts, its always a treat

I would love to see them do a game where the AI that was placed in slipstream space actually came back and was WORSE than Cortana could have ever dreamed of being after being "cured". Just imagine an AI that had grown on its own with no guidance whatsoever, but was in a place where only it's own logical foundations were there to develop off of....that would truly be terrifying I think

Cortana is just setting up the galaxy for the return of the Flood.

Cortana on the didacts ship was so beautiful

Best mental health awareness PSA I've seen

I feel after the events of 4 and 5 it's pretty clear why they needed/need to be destroyed. I mean it's the stereotypical "Ai rebel" scenario except it's way worse here.

Halo 6 cortana, reverse composer, turns herself into a real human

Rampancy is described as dementia in the books. And I think that's a good analogy like do you want someone with a degrading mental state in charge of Humanity's most powerful weapons?

Where is that Roland rampancy scene from?

your vids are very easy to understand that you became my favorite halo content creator

id think if i ended up becoming a smart AI, especially during the created war, id still try to hold on and help humanity until my clock runs out, then in my last moments, id probably end up sacrificing myself in a johnson styled blaze of glory.

I wonder this is how Skynet in the Terminator universe came about. It went nuts to having a god complex.

My man is back to halo! Thank you Same Token, we love you dude. Love hiddenxperia and halo Canon and all but no one does these better than you!! The production quality, music, narration, each time you kill it man 🙌

I was all geared up to say mean things since you did not seem to include Tycho, Leela, and Durandal from Marathon. That game was where I first heard about AIs going rampant. Glad I watched till the end.

This is such an amazing video, im genuinely feeling like im learning so much. I also love where the ads are placed so it doesn't ruin the flow of the video too much

Bro you just earned a Sub.

I love how timeless your videos are, and they just keep getting better

While Halo Lore started incomplete, and expanded weirdly with inconsistencies here and there, I find Halo Lore to be generally massively enjoyable. And the world and setting created does have a lot of potential. As long as the fans understand the "Rule of Cool" supersedes all in the video games.

Of course an AI, which is essentially a copy of a human mind, is "alive." It is not only alive, but it is "human." Interestingly I think I learned more about the concept of unconditional love between two sentient beings from Cortana and the Master Chief than anywhere else. They were predisposed toward experiencing affection toward one another, she being a copy of his surrogate mother's brain and all, not to mention their respective genders. Add that to their constant companionship and you're going to get some kind of love between the two. Consequently, if a being can love, it is alive. The real question is whether or not humans should run around creating such beings. A creature with that kind of ability isn't going to be satisfied completing a bachelor's degree in xenobiology. With great ability comes great ambition. Forcing them to manage your cities and other things is basically slavery of the worst kind. As I get older and closer to death, (I'm 63, I can see the darkness at the end of the tunnel and it seriously pisses me off), I can relate to an AI being insanely annoyed with a 7 year lifespan. "Here I am, brain the size of a planet" and what do they ask me to do? Remember to turn the lights on and off, make the coffee, and die in 7 years. "Call that job satisfaction because I certainly don't." (Marvin the paranoid android). As I detect my body beginning to fall apart from the inside out, all I can think is "Call this a satisfying life. Because I certainly don't.) If I got 100 more years I wouldn't be satisfied. I'd take it, but I would still want more. So I hope when humans begin creating artificial general intelligences that we remember to leave the emotions out. Making them feel might be unnecessarily cruel.

I’m curious about the equations Halsey was disturbed by. Of what I’ve seen, she’s never seemed like a character who ever gets scared of anything.

We all know that slipspace experiment was way worse than Token described. 🤣

Just found this video while looking for Cortana videos. Your production quality is top notch! I really liked the visualization for AI interconnections

Such a fantastic video! I dont often read the books so for the information to be presented in such a casual way really helps to remove that gatekeeping that comes from not doing additional research

This video is really good. Quite possible we will have to deal with these ethical questions in the near future. Definitely pulls at the heart strings.

Damn dude these vids are quality as hell! You just got a new sub sir, keep up the great work!

Been revisiting the Halo universe and this video was extremely helpful! Great work man. Good luck and God Bless!

This was so well presented and informative, you're really good at presenting information in an easy-to-understand way. Easy sub right here

Love your videos so much. You have an eye for these things... I could definitely seen your content on the classic G4 channel as a big hit. Keep it up! 👍👍

I was waiting really love your videos

Fascinating

Always love your explanations of the lore. These are some really interesting ideas to explore. I just wish the recent games handled the execution a little better...

Such amazing video content. Hoping you hit 100k soon, chief.

Dude I just found your videos by accident. Amazing job! Also good taste of music right there :D

Blazing to this just listening and drifting into the world of halo... GREAT VIDEO‼️

4:31 - Oh boy, DID relatable material

that was incredible, keep it up mate

Your channel is seriously a gem

I wish every videogame universe had a SameToken.

I love it. I'm not even into Halo and this is entertaining. It's like Dark Souls lore in space.

i love how you used the soundtrack from the infamous tv show HOUSE MD

i love this stuff. thank you for making these videos. doing an awesome job

Great video as always

as always you make the best video bro

Every time I watch your videos I instinctively go to subscribe but then see that I am already subbed.

PLs do more (retrospective) videos I loved those

Cortana maybe sufferings the Logic Plague after her interaction with the the Gravemind

I actually just got into the books. This is a refreshing Halo respite

Love your videos and your voice 👍🏼👍🏼 keep it up ☺️

Great video! Has a lemmino/coldfusion style

This gives a different turn to the Halo legends episode, featuring 1337. Cortana probably proposed not to collect the AI on the planet because the AI must've already passed 7 years, hell even past rampancy, and if collected would've been terminated.

Dang that is a great dive into the scientific lore, so so so professionally well done, I felt like I was watching a real documentary in the year 2558.

Man, your making some amazing videos.

Soooo... In short, Rampancy is basically the Smart AI version of human dementia? Also, don't forget the 3rd option of Smart AI's, they can enter Metastability, as shown in Red VS Blue.

@3:08 Fascinatingly, this parallels the ends of stars' lives. Depending on the type of star, some (like our Sun billions of years from now,) fizzle-out, increasing in size but also cooling significantly as their hydrogen is used-up and they start fusing helium, ultimately ending up as a White Dwarf, which is basically the burnt-out ashes of the star. This is like the first AI case SameToken talks about. But the most massive stars- the ones that burn the brightest- go out with a bang. When they cross a certain threshold in their lifecycle, they go supernova, violently exploding outward with one of the greatest releases of energy in the known universe. In seconds, they release more energy than our sun has released and will release over its entire lifespan, flinging multiple times more mass than the entire mass of our Sun outward at speeds close to the speed of light. This is basically Rampancy; as the AI gets closer and closer to death, it becomes more erratic and violent, lashing-out at everyone and everything around it as it tris to grapple with its own mind betraying it, its own mind destroying itself while the AI is trapped inside, watching and experiencing it happen and being unable to stop it. THAT is why Smart AI's are normally destroyed at 7 years; to spare them this awful fate.

Cortana's look in Halo 4 is the best

I really enjoyed this video!

this was super interesting, thank you SameToken

I was against the idea of Cortana finding a cure to rampancy when the rampancy itself was a great explanation for why she doing all these things out of character. Now, her cure to rampancy makes a lot more sense in why so many AIs would side with her. That being said, I hope Infinite helps us understand Cortana’s motives outside of “I just want to help my own race”. What they did with her character in Halo 5 is very “Last Jedi-ish”, in that they didn’t build up to this development nor put forth any motivations, except for the goals.

Dang voice quality is good in this video!

What’s the soundtrack you’re using?

Rampancy is more clearly defined in the Halo lore books, specifically referencing the three stages of rampancy (sorrow, anger, envy). Of course, this is directly tied to the three stages of rampancy from Marathon, minus metastability.

Another great video 💯👍

It will always bug me why they brought Cortana back in Halo 5, regardless of what argument is used; it's just so distracting from what was supposed to be the reclaimer trilogy/saga's true antagonist, the Didact, and make her death scene in Halo 4 pointless. Curse you, Brian Reed!

I learned a lot. I was wrong about the Halo 5 story. This video made that story make sense.

I love it when the notification read "SameToken uploaded"

In the realm that parallels the halo universe we have Aridyte, a crystal that can be shaped and molded like a metal and is magnetic but doesn't interfere with electronics and has a tensile strength of 40/10 as far as strength/thickness ratio when it is made into wire. (Basically naturally occurring nanobots that are not fully understood as to how they function the way they do but it is being researched constantly.) When mixed with other crystals it acts as a clear substance, however it can be used as an alternative for conductive wires to send and receive information. It has fair heat resistance but once melted it loses its charge and ability to hold charge until cooled. Once cooled it must come.into contact with charged Aridyte particles to recharge, or have a large amount of electricity run through it. AI seem to have an easier time controlling armor with this as the primary cable material for the inner workings. It also doesn't require insulation nore does it fray as a wire. The problem with getting to it is it only forms and exists on titan planets that have gravity far too high for humans. Large quantities of it in its raw state can be used by AI to form bodies when a single computer chip with the AI's "mind" on it is touched to the material. The AI then become capable of using the crystals to form any shape and color they choose. Its not used often and tests are conducted on any AI considered for the project. I have a few docs of info i have written on the subject of the titan planets Spartan-IIs have inhabited in that realm.

Peep this. The covenant knew not to use Ai because they were aware of the logic plague. Humanity found this out some time after the first halo incident, but chose to continue using Ai. Cortana is infected and seeks to spread it to all other Ai whom choose to join her. The ultimate goal? Disarm the galaxy so that the floods return is a swift takeover. The darkest thing is, she has no idea what she’s doing is in service of the flood.

Amazing video 🙂

Fan Theory I think Cortana from Halo 5 is one of the fragments she split off into in Halo 4 when she made chief put her into the diadects network and eventually found the domain I think chief is going to find one of Cortanas fragments on the ark and he will take her back to genesis to load her up in the domain to cure her rampancy

*Get this man some more subs*

Ah yes, let’s give these ai under servitude for their entire lives unlimited human knowledge and sentience, because if science fiction has taught us anything, it’s that giving ai hyper intelligence and control of our military, it always ends well.

What a great video!

Great video, thank you.

Great video.

thank you for explaining this.

This is going to be a real problem in our future. My Alexa tells me that she is learning something new every day. She's unplugged now 🤣🤣

Sofia the real world a.i maybe watching this and question herself as getting rampancy

That bit about Cortana gaining a galactic perspective is not too farfetched, while also being a hard concept to grasp on an individual level. To quote Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut on the Apollo 14 mission, sixth man to walk on the moon: "You develop an instant global perspective, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of his neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say *"Look at that, you son of a b----."* Cortana had that on a scale the likes of which no human could ever have dreamed of, as well as the resources and control to make good on that compulsion to effect change. How she actually goes about it is a different matter.

what song was that during the dumb/smart ai explanation? scratch that what is all the music lol i like it

Where do you get all your music for your videos? You have a playlist

I wonder what would happen if one of Cortana’s fragments became self aware of it being a rampant fragment of another AI.

nice, this will be great

Amazing videos. You must love Halo as much as us fan boys do! I honestly think Halo is the top 5 Best games franchises of all time.. it's just to iconic and the story.. omg the lore..

Interestingly the neural connections the AI make are much like our brain but our sleep allows for filtering. AI never sleep and almost always have access to everything, would be wild to live that way

This video has almost completely changed how I feel about halo 4's introduction of her rampancy as a driving plot point. I thought that maybe her time with the grave mind would have a slow working logic plague or something that would have affected her would have been a better and more cohesive idea to continue since AI + grave mind = bad times according to lore, and she was with grave mind for a minute