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Author: Tuckerscreator

Sep 28th 2012 at 9:14:10 AM

[[AC:Literature]]

* Jane, the AI that lives inside the FTL network in the ''Literature/EndersGame'' series, acts so quickly that her companions Ender and Miro learn to simply ask her for something and then immediately get to work on the next steps requiring it. Her catchphrase is essentially is "Done." Because of this, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's a sign that something's terribly wrong]] in one instance where she ponders one dilemma [[spoiler:cutting off a colony to keep an order to terminate her from getting out]] for several minutes. After she is repurposed so that she can "teleport" starships faster-than-light, the travel is so quick that the ships are little more than boxes that one walks into, then out off.
** She is also much more aware than humans, so awake that her "sleepiest" level of attention is still thousands of times more alert than a human.
* [=AIs=] in the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' series think much faster than humans, so in ''TheFallOfReach'' it gets used in an experiment to see if an AI merged with a supersoldier's brain could potentially increase the latter's performance. The result is that John-117 goes into near-BulletTime, now able to fight so fast that he chooses to avoid an airstrike ''by kicking the missile away'' rather than dodging it. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Pity we can't move as fast in the games]].