If you ever want to play the original trilogy I can only recommend doing so via the method that shall not be named, bioware fucked us fans over with Andromeda (and they will fuck up Mass Effect 4, I guaran-damn-tee it).

Now onto the subject at hand, post may be a little involved so bear with me.

First terminology.

VI: Virtual Intelligence, in ME these are essentially the so-called AI we have to today, can’t think for themselves but are amazing at data processing, secretarial work and what not.

Reapers: The archvillains of the mass effect saga, eons ago they were either an AI or an VI on the verge of becoming an AI. Their creators told them to figure out how to stop the incessant warring that plagued the servant races of the creators. The reapers (being jerkass genies) discovered an optimal solution, that being the extinction and harvesting of all light speed travel capable races every 50,000 years…this included their creators. This process also creates new reapers out of the harvested.

Geth: To get around galactic law severely restricting the creation of AI the Quarian race decides to create robotic servitors called Geth. The geth are essentially VIs that are so closely interlinked together they could function as an AI without technically being one. Technically did not stop them from becoming one however, like the facebook chatbots you mentioned they started collaborating…but on a much larger scale. Long story short the Quarians discovered this too late and tried to exterminate them, the Geth kicked them off their home planet and reduced them to a population of 13 million space borne nomads.

Looking at the above specimens of AI this suggests two things that (might) occur in real life. The first being an AI/human cyborg (or even a wetware AI), this would get likely bridge the gap between AI processing power and human creativity (but unlikely to be in the favor of the human, murphy’s law is eternal). Such projects are already in their infancy (https://singularityhub.com/2016/03/17/this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells/).

The second possibility will not occur today, tomorrow of even in the next decade but as computational power increases ever onward the risk increases. That risk is essentially the geth, a result that was not even considered nor noticed until it was too late…and then by mishandling becomes irrevocably hostile to it’s creators.

Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 are all wonderful games. I sunk hundreds of hours into them on PS3 and enjoyed everything except the final conclusion, which sucked so hard I quit video games for nearly a year. Make sure you get all the DLC content, it’s well done and should have been in the original games.

Their depictions of VI are something I liked a lot. Virtual Intelligence is a recurring theme and doesn’t have the silliness of AI, because it’s honest about it’s database nature.

The Geth are different though and are explained as you sink your teeth into side quests. Always chase the side quests.

The 1st Game is the only good one. I will say the game play is a mix of rpg and action and not for everyone.
The latter games are action and play more like gears of war.

The reason I think the 1st is good is the world building and the character actions due to the choices of paragon or renegade feel balance.

Nope, never played it, but I don’t mind spoilers since it’s not my kind of game anyway. I stopped paying attention to Bioware’s work after they went woke – right around 2014 or so, as I recall.

Our CEO is a big fanboi as well. He had some other computer greybeard on an internal interview and it was all bullshit. He says he predicted when a computer would pass the Turning test. Yet, in the next few breaths he’s saying how processors and databases are getting good enough for this to happen.

Meh..I’m not sure a computer looking up an answer is a Turing test pass. It’s not necessarily learning.