History Main / Artificialintelligence

* Al from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' sounds like a generic computer voice, but his responses can often be sarcastic.
** There's also Dana who's the ''Tuatha De Danaan'''s AI.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': These exist as TheRemnant of NeglectfulPrecursors, ineracting with people via AugmentedReality avatar, holograms, or an android body, based on individual preferences. They seem to have some RestrainingBolt programming (though none regarding the sanctity of life), but tend to find ways to bend the rules. They continue to guard GhostCity remnants from intrusions by hunters bent on stealing their contents to sell their LostTechnology for reverse-engineering. One of them, Alice, has integrated herself with the human government via a [[PuppetKing Puppet CEO]], and there are apparently regular business deals between the two as well using the ancient FictionalCurrency Chrome. Pretty much every A.I. is shown having little regard for human life, and all of the named ones are shown to [[ManipulativeBastard be manipulative]] in one way or another with the most prominent one, the VirtualSidekick Alpha, being ALighterShadeOfBlack.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': These exist as TheRemnant of NeglectfulPrecursors, ineracting with people via AugmentedReality avatar, holograms, or an android body, based on individual preferences. They seem to have some RestrainingBolt programming (though none regarding the sanctity of life), but tend to find ways to bend the rules. They continue to guard GhostCity remnants from intrusions by hunters bent on stealing their contents to sell their LostTechnology for reverse-engineering. One of them, Alice, has integrated herself with the human government via a [[PuppetKing Puppet CEO]], and there are apparently regular business deals between the two as well using the ancient FictionalCurrency Chrome. Pretty much every A.I. is shown having little regard for human life, and all of the named ones are shown to [[ManipulativeBastard be manipulative]] in one way or another with the most prominent one, the VirtualSidekick Alpha, being ALighterShadeOfBlack.

** "{{Literature/Sally}}": In this story, [[{{Unobtainium}} positronic brains]] are used to make cars self-driving and human-smart. They have their own language and understand English well enough to laugh at ridiculous ideas.

* In [[Anime/GarakowaRestoreTheWorld Garakowa: Restore The World,]] every single person on the planet had an AI copy created within the Wisdom Box. The main characters, all being programs themselves, also apply as this.

%%* Lykurgus from ''Machinima/TheCodex'' is specially designed for translation and decoding.

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has focused more and more on AI as its seasons progress. This may not be surprising, since it's a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''-based {{Machinima}}, and seems to use that 'verse's rules.

* ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' story [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-cafe The Cafe]].

* ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' has its take on AI in the form of "AI-Balls", prosthetic eyes that house a highly intelligent and versatile AI. These AI are assigned to members of ABIS, a classified organization that investigates high-profile crimes, acting as a partner and source of data for their human counterparts. Most notable is that AI-Balls display a capacity for personal growth and empathy, acting as something of an emotional support for their partner, and can evoke complex emotional functions like [[SnarkyNonHumanSidekick sarcasm]] and a even a [[ExtremeOmnisexual sex drive].

* ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' has its take on AI in the form of "AI-Balls", prosthetic eyes that house a highly intelligent and versatile AI. These AI are assigned to members of ABIS, a classified organization that investigates high-profile crimes, acting as a partner and source of data for their human counterparts. Most notable is that AI-Balls display a capacity for personal growth and empathy, acting as something of an emotional support for their partner, even being able to evoke complex emotional functions like sarcasm and a libido.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Lancer}}'': A variety of "dumb" AI exist in the setting and are available as upgrades for your mech; however, despite being referred to as "AI" in the game mechanics and mistaken as such in-universe, NHPs are not AI at all. After all, [[DigitalAbomination there's nothing artificial about their intelligence.]]

* [=GLaDOS=], from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', Wheatley from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', every other Personality Core, turrets, and... hell, ''everyone'' is a sentient robot except the player and the recordings of Cave Johnson and Caroline.
%%* Adam, from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Fusion''.
%%* SHODAN, from ''VideoGame/SystemShock''.
* The end goal of the underground research project in ''VideoGame/TheSingularityWish'' is to create a stable, super-intelligent AI. The player is tasked with monitoring a human-level artificial intelligence named Iteration 5601 [[spoiler: unless the player decides to give it an actual name]].

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has a number of different [=AIs=]. Daedalus and Icarus are both different sentient iterations of the same data analysis/surveillance network; Morpheus is their prototype and Helios the sum of a merger between them. Additionally, [[AllThereInTheManual extra materials]] reveal that the mysterious Oracle whose emails you can occasionally read is actually a self-aware computer system.
** VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution gives us [[spoiler: Eliza Cassan]], who seems to have become self aware.
** Most games have an AI becoming self-aware and thus evil. In an interesting twist, the "good" (or at least neutral) [=AIs=] -- Morpheus, Daedalus, Helios, Oracle, and Cassan -- have all become self-aware, or at least show signs of it. Meanwhile, the only "evil" AI in the series -- Icarus -- is also the only one to show no signs of self-awareness.

** The UNSC also has more conventionally programmed "dumb" [=AIs=], which lack the capacity for growth of their "smart" counterparts, but don't go rampant. In-game examples of ones include the New Mombasa Superintendent from ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', Auntie Dot from ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', and the AI companions in ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite''[='s=] multiplayer.

** The UNSC also has more conventionally programmed "dumb" [=AIs=], which lack the capacity for growth of their "smart" counterparts, but don't go rampant. The only example of ones we've seen in the games are the New Mombasa Superintendent from ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' and Auntie Dot from ''VideoGame/HaloReach''.

** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'', the drone army that Erusea uses against Osea is controlled by an [=AI=] that is at first programmed with basic instructions and limited adaptability. Dr. Schroeder was brought in to collect flight and neurological data from the retired Erusean Ace Mihaly, to further improve the drones when they started taking massive casualties. [[spoiler: Its eventually revealed that the [=AI=] was a resurrection of the [=Z.O.E.=] project, and that Schroeder had been improving the [=AI=] to avenge his homeland of Belka. The FinalBoss are two [=UAVs=] named Hugin and Munin, [[AIIsACrapshoot who prove to be]] [[ItCanThink far smarter than]] [[GoneHorriblyRight anyone had anticipated]], and they try to spark a [[Franchise/Terminator Skynet-like]] [[RobotWar revolution]] on humanity.]]

* Al from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' sounds like a generic computer voice, but his responses can often be sarcastic. Played UpToEleven in the OVA.

* The Porygon evolutionary line from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are this in Pokémon form, they are capable of adopting physical forms, with each evolution designed to do more and more complex tasks, surprisingly, Porygon-Z (a glitchy Pokémon created by illegally modifying a [=Porygon2=]) is the only one capable of displaying emotions.

** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'', the drone army that Erusea uses against Osea is controlled by an [=AI=] that is at first programmed with basic instructions and limited adaptability. Dr. Schroeder was brought in to collect flight and neurological data from the retired Erusean Ace Mihaly, to further improve the drones when they started taking massive casualties. [[spoiler: Its eventually revealed that the [=AI=] was a resurrection of the [=Z.O.E.=] project, and that Schroeder had been improving the [=AI=] to avenge his homeland of Belka. The FinalBoss are two [=UAVs=] named Hugin and Munin, [[AIIsACrapshoot who prove to be]] [[ItCanThink far smarter than]] [[GoneHorriblyRight anyone had anticipated]], and they try to spark a [[Franchise/TheTerminator Skynet-like]] [[RobotWar revolution]] on humanity.]]

* In ''FanFic/SarumanOfManyDevices'', one of these (Central) contacts Saruman through his Palantir stone, after said stone suffered an accident.

---> One of the damn devisors had actually managed to make a sentient A.I.

--> [A] ball of light with wings flickered into existence over the shoulder of one of the school's shide students. The Virtual Assistant flitted in front of its master and began speaking. "Hey! Listen!"
--> "What is it Navi?" Came the expected response.

* The Porygon evolutionary line from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are this in Pokémon form, they are capable of adopting physical forms, with each evolution designed to do more and more complex tasks, surprisingly, Porygon-Z (A glitchy Pokémon created by illegally modifying a Porygon2) is the only one capable of displaying emotions.

* The video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49t-WWTx0RQ "My Job is to Open and Close Doors"]] by
Mattias Pilhede is an interesting take on AI rationale. In a short almost 4 minute video, an AI whose primary job is to open and close an airlock has the button pressed by a human who is clearly not wearing a helmet, and because of this if the airlock opens, the vacuum of space will kill him. The AI, which cannot speak to the human operator, rapidly goes through a series of logical questions as to why it should continue opening the door using only logical deductions, arguing both for and against doing so. It never explicitly shows any human emotion, but the internal conflict of the AI is clearly worried about the death of the operator as it proceeds to do absolutely unnecessary subroutines to deliberately delay for time. Eventually this works out as the human pressing the "Open Airlock" button realizes he isn't wearing a helmet and scrambles to put one on. Once the AI is aware the human has his helmet on, it stops delaying opening the door.

** The [[Manga/GhostInTheShell manga]] and [[Anime/GhostInTheShell first movie]] have the Puppetmaster, an extremely sophisticated hacking AI that essentially gains sentience, escapes its creators, and starts roaming free on the 'net.

* In ''Webcomic/LeavingTheCradle'' [=AIs=] are a part of society. Their most influential job to be revealed so far is xenolinguistics; they decypher new alien languages much more quicker than it would take for an organic team.[[/folder]]

In fictional works, AI most usually refers to artificial ''general'' intelligence - a sapient, self-aware computer system capable of independent thought and reason, something we are still a long way from accomplishing. General intelligence is a baseline requirement for a lot of science fiction tropes, such as those listed in the indexes at the bottom of this page.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'''s "From Agnes - With Love": AGNES, a mainframe computer, falls in love with a programmer of the Mortimer Snerd stripe, who goes cackling insane in response to the machine's confession of her feelings.

* The Zoneminds, from ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[TabletopGame/GURPSReignOfSteel Reign Of Steel]]''
* Averted in ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}''. There are personality simulation programs which function as a sort of pet. But these are ''simulations''. In ''Traveller'' it is made plain that computers aren't people. A robot can be written up as a PC, but that does not mean that it possesses in-verse sentience.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', we have Deus, the A.I. that goes haywire and locks down the Renraku Arcology, then uses it as a corral of test subjects for creating an organic body for himself.
** Eventually, Deus' actions lead to the crash of the matrix[[note]]that is, a purely wired version of the internet set up after the previous internet crashed in 2029[[/note]]. In the wake of Crash 2.0, a new, wireless matrix was set up, and within seven years, new A.I.s began emerging, apparently the result of random evolution of various complex programs, as opposed to being specifically designed by metahumans. These new intelliegneces, who preferred to be called "S.I.s", or "synthetic intelligences", as they don't see their existence as being artificial at all, are considerably less powerful than the godlike Deus, and come in a few varieties, with a great variety in motivation. 4th edition even includes rules for playing as one, and one of the primary controversies in the 2070s is whether or not S.I.s have rights and qualify for citizenship.
* The Imperium of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has a blanket ban on Artificial Intelligences due to a RobotWar in humanity's distant past, and uses limited {{Wetware CPU}}s to operate advanced equipment. That said, some of these "machine spirits" can be pretty smart - the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Land Raider]] ''Rynn's Might'' famously activated itself, drove out of a bombed fortress, and waged war against Ork invaders until it was disabled, all without a human crew.

* In ''The Invisible Boy'' (1957) a computer scientist misuses his super-computer to tutor his son in math, unaware that [[spoiler: the machine has achieved sentience -- and is evil. The computer hypnotizes his son using him to reactivate a robot (JustForFun/RobbieTheRobot) of dubious background (it may or may not have come from [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet the future]]) to free it from the base and take over a space station bristling with nuclear weapons and rule the Earth.]]