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Hey I'm talking about the syntethics Android's in aliens fireteam. And I think they the same ones as in alien isolation too. I am trying to figure it out as I play aliens fireteam. Alpha and Beta are the two on my team in offline single player campaign. And the way they do things I feel like they are a human. Even seen them on the hub home base ship doing stuff like tinkering with their guns and equipment. But are they sentient or are they just programs for various tasks?

hmmmm don't know really. Like I've watched most of the aliens movies over the years, but it's been a while now and I forgot a lot of things. I mean they look human, except of course their faces are different. While having all the features of a human face, you know how they have that rubber synthetic look to them and not too many emotions. I haven't met yet them as enemies in aliens fireteam, only on the second mission,.but I hear them show up later to fight you like the aliens are. I wanna see how those ones act against me. Still yeah I guess certain synthetic Android's in the aliens world could be sentient, but I need to learn more about this before I can decide of that for them.

It's a mobile game designed to siphon disposable income from children who have no idea what the Aliens franchise is. Don't think too far into it.

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What are you talking about? Aliens fireteam is a new Xbox one/series x and PS4/ps5 game. Not a mobile game. And yes I think about it a lot. Which is why I wanted other fans of the series to give their idea

Robots can not and will never be sentient

I really hate that trope in sci-fi where machines come "alive" or whatever. It's ridiculous

@unnamedsoldier what do you mean? Don't know if you are joking or really are that close minded about such. Of course one day an AI will be sentient, just because it hasn't happened yet don't mean it won't. The future depending on how long it takes will pretty much have anything we can think of