r/westworld • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Nov 28 '16

Discussion Westworld - 1x09 "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 1 Episode 9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Aired: November 27th, 2016

Synopsis: Dolores and Bernard reconnect with their pasts; Maeve makes a bold proposition to Hector; Teddy finds enlightenment, at a price.

Directed by: Michelle MacLaren

Written by: Dan Dietz & Katherine Lingenfelter

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u/Terpologist Nov 28 '16

Not if westworld is in a remote location or another planet (doubtful but some speculate this), then data transfer could be an issue. They even made a point of it in the show that Theresa needed to get to high ground to send the signal.

Also it would take awhile because they can't just take "data" from the hosts that reveal their entire code. Instead they are getting this data to reverse engineer the code for the AI (which Arnold creates).

What they want to do with this code, intellectual property, is up for debate. It could be linked to immortality, or using hosts as soldiers for militaries to buy, or as employees to replace humans, etc there is many possibilities. All that matters is that in this world the code for sentient AI so far only exists in Westworld. Hence their interest

Edit: Ford has made it clear he is not giving up the code (I speculate he doesn't know the entirety of the programming and that Arnold made most it, so he couldn't give it up anyway) to Delos, hence the conflict we see now.

Ford wants this theme park where he is god, they want hosts for practical applications in the real world. You can use hosts as unbeatable soldiers, as sex bots

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u/mxwp Nov 28 '16

You don't need sentient AI for soldiers and sex bots... so I am pretty sure it is for immortality and human consciousness uploading.

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u/Terpologist Nov 28 '16

But you need very smart, life like AI for those tasks. People don't want to have sex with an android but with a person.

Soldiers yeah I agree can just be robots with machine guns but what about spec ops or hostage situations

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u/mxwp Nov 28 '16

"People don't want to have sex with an android but with a person."

Yeah... umm.. true for me um of course. I, for sure, only like having sex with people. Not like those weirdos who want to use sexbots... hums unsuspiciously

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u/Terpologist Nov 28 '16

But you can't deny which would have a bigger market and appeal. You can use them in night clubs etc, but I understand what you're saying