Interesting direction this takes. 
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Was this to me? It helps if you reply to the post, raather than just at the bottom, or reference me in some way - I only saw this by accident.
I patrol the the Exp AG4 in slot one. In slot 2 is the Exp .50 cal (whose scope I use instead of binoculars, which I don’t carry). In slot 3 is a 9mm pistol. At the top of the inventory at the left hand side is the 84mm and a 5* 9mm SMG. In the four slots remaining in the top line is a radio, adrenaline, lock picks, and a lure.
On the left hand side in a vertical column is my 7.62 ammo, in the next column my .50cal (generally I only have three stacks available, so the other slot has another 7.62 liner). Next comes the SMG ammo, which is all armour piercing. In immediate access slot 4 is medkits, with alternatives just above, in #five is mines for Withdrawal in Contact. Slot 6 carries flares and freworks, 7 hand grenades. Just below the 84mm is 3x4 rockets, with another 4 on the weapon.
That’s my load out and it never changes.
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Ok, so gold weapons are only collectable to you. Got it. And you probably know all the fixed spawns for gold weapons in the game already. So nevermind me.
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There are few fixed spawns for those. Instead of missions, I went looking for weapons. I’m a soldier, trying to survive. From the South Coast I went all the way to Normyra and then across to the Ruins to pick up the 4* sniper rifle. It took me days. I think I finally got the 5* SMG off a tank, and the other two from my 14th and 15th Rival (the others dropped nothing). Oh, yes, 5* 84mm from the Bridge, but I went there before and nothing - I had to find the mission that took you there, but it was familiar territory, 'cos I’d already been there and knew my best route in and out.
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There is a gold AK world spawn. Sorry, “AI” (I love these nick names. 
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@pegnose
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence…
Why did they took that one.
Why not AB or…
What would, in the world of weaponry, the I stand for???
AK = Automatik Karbin, logical.
AI = Automatic I…? Ibrahim? Interrupt? Internet?
Hell, even APP would have done it as far as I am concerned.
Automatik Pang Pang. 
It’s the next letter in the alphabet. And I guess they found the analogy to the enemies “tempting”, funny. As do I.
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Probably not that much in the 80’s. I remember telling my professor about neural networks and that I would like to work with artificial intelligence. He replied that he preferred to work with natural intelligence and almost choked from laughing …
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In GZ closed beta, current AI-76 was named AL-47,
source (at 01:35):
Need to check your alphabet since it’s actually: … F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M …
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Whoopsies, where is my head. 
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I go with Automatiskt Igenkännlig because that gun is automatically recognisable.
@IanForce if I remember rightly, back then neural nets as a field was kind of dead because it was shown that they were limited as linear classifiers. Genetic algorithms were a lot more fun!
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[quote=“IanForce, post:169, topic:21045”]
Probably not that much in the 80’s
[/quote]Oh?
That is actually a good point.
I’m not sure if it was something back then.
IF it was, it was certainly very, very small…
AI talk began to grow in the 90’s, but no idea when it set roots.
Then again, I think of the movie Metropolis?
Or Kraftwerk with the album The Man Machine?
Hmmm…
@Aesyle
Did it?
Wow…
Interesting, must have missed it.
Then again, never was an AK fan…
Unless it was a different one.
Alphabet.
@Flick
OOOOH Brilliant!!!
Love that one.
My Turkish is not that great, so yeah… missed that as well.
@Xogroroth AI has been around for ages. Often we think of Turing, in his 1950’s paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” because he’s now a famous guy, but the ideas go back to ancient cultures such as the ancient Egyptian legend of the clockwork crocodile, and the ancient Greek stories about the blacksmith god’s mechanical assistants. Google tells me the field itself was “officially” started in 1956, but in truth research doesn’t have such concrete boundaries.
If you’d like some relevant pop culture, you could do worse than Adolphson & Falk’s Mr Jones Maskin and Blinkar Blå. it’s 80s! it’s Swedish! It’s robot/AI/computers! The latter makes me think of Veronica working on FNIX.
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Really? Well, perhaps your right. What I recall was more a discussion about the number of layers, neurons, interconnecting synapses, thresholds, and how to get hold of sufficient CPU resources to simulate (not to mention training) them. Implementation, basically. But I’m an engineer, not a mathematician (they are generally smarter). For me division by zero is NotaNumber and infinity is just a very big float. Anyway, my professor encouraged me to study computer architecture and high speed electronics. He was a very wise man.
But thanks for assisting me in derailing the thread. You are getting rather good at it 
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I do not mind derails, they are all interesting.
Besides, I think most have said what they wanted, what they thought.
That in the end was the point, wasn’t it? 
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Back in the day, three layers would do anything, your weight and threshold table connected every perceptron on that layer to every perceptron on the next, and you’d have a simple sigmoid function for training via back-propagation. Until we realised it’s easier to set up a GA to build the network right out instead of all the tedious training rituals, that is. But I’m biased. GAs were my thing. A long time ago I was training for academic AI research, and I think you got the better deal going into electronic engineering.
Since this is Xog’s thread, I’ll consider it derailed when he says it is. ^^
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Don’t mind me, I find this interesting as well…
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Forgive me! For a moment I mistook you for a mathematician. You are obviously a philosopher
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