Test Log Fifteen: Where do I know that name? /possible spoilers for Portal 2.

[getsciencedone]

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[hontobakabaka]

[Ruri watches the parts fly for a bit before walking near but not in GLaDOS' throwing arc]

"Do you need some help gathering parts Miss GLaDOS?"

[getsciencedone]

[She'll look over at that.]

No. Not really.

[hontobakabaka]

"Then do you care if I take the discarded ones? I've been gathering things for a refocusing project."

[getsciencedone]

Go ahead.

[hontobakabaka]

"Thank you."

[She'll begin picking up parts]

"Have you recovered from the whatever it was the town put in the punch at that dance?"

[getsciencedone]

[GLaDOS blinks. Oh right, you were the one she talked to for most of that. She doesn't really remember much of that night.]

Yes. Completly back to normal.

[Aside from the lingering doubt that she should know that woman she though she was.]

[hontobakabaka]

"I've never seen a personality resurgence in an AI before to that level so I was a little worried. But if there's no data corruption, everything worked out."

[She keeps peering at the tossed aside parts]

[getsciencedone]

.....you've seen something..."like" that before then?

[hontobakabaka]

"Many early AI's were based off of the neural scan of a human. It is an outdated practice though as there was a higher than acceptable chance of the unit becoming unstable and obsessing over something due to the lack of the full human interfaces though. Its why they started.... Um.. Engineering specialty administrators to work off of purely artificial ones."

[getsciencedone]

.....

I wonder....

[GLaDOS falls silent...thinking. Caroline, Caroline. Who was this woman?]

[hontobakabaka]

"If you want, I may be able to preform a data scan. That is if you've regained your status as an AI. I'm not sure how to do that on human brains, there are so many wasted impulses there I wouldn't know where to start."

[getsciencedone]

I have.

[She replies automatically. ...wait.]

Data scan? ...How.

[hontobakabaka]

"I am host to a colony of nano machines that allow me to interface with any AI. I mean I need to be given access first as its rude to hack in, but, I can log at a range of about 4 meters."

[getsciencedone]

[GLaDOS looks...wary.]

What exactly will you be looking for?

[Also will it hurt...and will she hear voices in her head...she does't like those.]

[hontobakabaka]

"Hidden data files near the personality core. It should be painless, the worst that could happen is you hear my data inquiries internally as well as externally when I make them. Honestly, I'm more in danger than you as I'm slightly susceptible to picking up personality traits. You don't have any I should worry about, do you?"

[getsciencedone]

I don't have any added personality cores attached at the moment, so no.

[She likes the silence in her head.]