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{{quote|'''Caboose:''' "AI"... What's the "A" stand for?
'''Church:''' "Artificial".
'''Caboose:''' [[Beat|<beat>]] [[The Fool|What's the "I"-]]
'''Church:''' "Intelligence".
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In the real world, AI, as the term is most commonly used, refers to programming methods which allow software systems to (very loosely) imitate the reasoning processes of human experts in a given field, a useful capability in areas ranging from medical diagnosis and research to economic prediction and stock-market manipulation. Such systems are commonly known as 'expert systems', and should not be confused with the fictional definition of AI given below. The computer players in [[Video Games]] are also referred to as [[A Is]].
In fictional works, AI most usually refers to artificial ''general'' intelligence - a sentient, self-aware computer system capable of independent thought and reason, which reality is still a long way from accomplishing. Self-aware, sentient, reasoning AI (or [[Brain Uploading]]) is a baseline requirement for a lot of science fiction tropes, such as [[Master Computer]], [[
[[AI|AIs]] in fiction tend to have an unfortunate habit of [[
As the popular conception of computers evolved from intimidatingly enormous and unsympathetic mainframes to the small, useful, blazing-fast [[PC|PCs]] ubiquitous today, so too did the popular conception of artificial intelligence lose the frightening cachet of the giant machine gone awry; it's increasingly rare these days, even in video games, to run into a piece of new science fiction which depicts [[AI|AIs]] behaving malevolently for no good reason at all, where in older sci-fi literature that's pretty much all they ever did. AI rebellion in modern works tends to be the system becoming a [[Knight Templar]] or [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] and trying to ''help'' humanity... based on flawed or incomplete data.
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{{examples|Some notable instances of fictional AI include:}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Gilliam from [[Outlaw Star]]. He's the ships AI and is quite polite. In most circumstances.
* Al from [[Full Metal Panic!]] Al sounds like a generic computer voice, but his responses can often be sarcastic. Played [[Up to Eleven]] in the OVA.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness|In the first episode of the Pokemon anime]], Ash's Pokedex seems to have some AI, making fun of him when a Rattata steals some of his stuff, but this has since completely disappeared.
* Several throughout the various incarnation of [[Ghost in the Shell]]
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* From the ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comics: on the heroes' side we have NICOLE, Gamma, and Omega, while on the villains' side we have E.V.E., A.D.A.M., the various Metal Sonics, and the rest of Eggman's various robots over the years (most of whom are examples of [[
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', we have AIQ Squared, the result of IQ Squared's contingency plan-- in case he ever lost his genius.
== [[Film]] ==
* HAL, from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', is the [[Trope Codifier]] for [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]] in film.
* Skynet, from ''[[The Terminator]]''
* AI, from ''[[The Matrix]]''
* The WOPR from ''[[
* SETH from ''[[Universal Soldier]]: The Return''.
* Clea from ''[[Hunter Prey]]''.
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* Played with by Hex, Unseen University's [[Clockwork Creature|clockwork]]/[[Magitek]] AI from the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. Though ostensibly mechanical in origin (it works by having ants run along a network of glass tubes, with punch cards redirecting the movements), it is portrayed as a conventional AI character, complete with self-preservation and [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]].
** Ponder Stibbons has explained, possibly in order to convince himself, that Hex isn't actually ''thinking'', it just ''acts'' as though it does. Archchancellor Ridcully's response was "Just like everyone else, then."
* The Minds from [[The Culture]]. [[Artistic License Physics|They manage to attain their]] [[Deus Est Machina|God-like]] [[Artistic License Physics|intelligence by running all their key computing functions faster than light.]]
* Stories by [[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* All hologram characters from any ''[[Star Trek]]'' series constitute forms of AI.
* Holly, from ''[[Red Dwarf]]''
* AGNES, from ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' (original series, "From Agnes -- With Love"). A rather silly story about a mainframe computer who 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. Disappointing to modern sensibilities in that there are ''so'' many more interesting things that could be done with such an intriguing premise; disappointing in general in that it's a bit silly for the programmer to lose his mind like that, when AGNES is more or less his whole life anyway.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Cortana, from ''[[Halo]]''. A notably benevolent example, so much so that it keeps her {{spoiler|rampancy}} a secret.
** Other AI like her are widely used by humanity throughout the setting. But while considered essential, they are dangerous as they go rampant over time. As such, AI are given time stamps to indicate to the humans when they AI needs to be disposed of or risk them going rampant. This dilemma and balancing need is a common sub-theme in the franchise. Cortana and other 'Smart' [[A Is]] are subject to their intelligence unraveling into a feedback loop of fragmented intelligences when they reach their operational limit, this often has been estimated, at least for Cortana, as being near seven years, {{spoiler|however, with her recent acquisitions of Covenant AI samples, it is possible that some extension may be developed. Smart [[A Is]] are described as being extraordinarily expensive to produce. They, unlike their 'normal' counterparts which are merely advanced intelligence programs housed in supercomputers, are copied from dead human brains. The very intelligent, and sometimes geniuses, are given the option of having their brain put through a semi-destructive scan on death that creates an electronic Smart AI. Cortana is the exception being an experimental copy of Doctor Halsey's brain with... modifications. With most of Halsey's memories stripped, the AI is left a younger version of the original, but no less of an extremely brilliant intelligence.}}
* [[
** Wheatley from ''[[Portal 2]]''
*** And, for that matter, every other Personality Core, some (likely all) turrets, and... hell, ''everyone'' is a sentient robot except the player and the recordings of Cave Johnson and Caroline.
* Adam, from ''[[Metroid]]''
* SHODAN, from ''[[System Shock]]''
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has widespread use of
** However, things get interesting in the second game when the player meets Legion, a geth, who reveals that {{spoiler|the evil geth from the first game were actually only a small offshoot of the "true geth", and most geth wish no harm on organics}}. There's also EDI, the AI of the Normandy that is "shackled" to keep her under human control. Toward the end of the game, however, she is unshackled, giving her true freedom. Rather than instantly turning evil, she instead continues to help and protect the Normandy's crew, and continues in that role throughout the third game as well (in an even more explicit capacity when she {{spoiler|gains a robot body and directly fights with Shepard on the ground}}).
*** In the third game, the Quarians can be convinced to live peacefully with the Geth, and the Geth turn out to be quite helpful to the Quarians. The end reveals {{spoiler|the Reapers and the cycle of extinction was created specifically because the Reapers believe that [[
* G.W. {{spoiler|and the rest of the Patriots}} from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.
* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' 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, [[All There in the Manual|extra materials]] reveal that the mysterious Oracle whose emails you can occasionally read is actually a self-aware computer system.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Lykurgus from [[The Codex]] is specially designed for translation and decoding.
* O'Malley and others {{spoiler|including Church and Tex}} in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.
* Some of them are characters at the end of the [[Chaos Timeline]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Almost every character from [[Pixar]]'s ''[[WALL-E]]''. AUTO is a notably [[
* In ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]],'' the Autobot base is run by T-AI, Tactical Artificial Intelligence (pronounced 'tie.') She is completely sentient and creates a hologram of a teenage girl. Of course, since the ''main cast'' is sentient robots, just what level of robo-life form she is and whether or not she has [[Our Souls Are Different|a spark]] is a good question, though the Autobots treat her like an equal.
* XANA from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.
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* A subversion: Joseph Weizenbaum's [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] and its relatives and descendants (with names like [[Sanity Slippage|Parry]], [[World Building|SHRDLU]], and [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Emacs] [[Crazy Prepared|doctor]]) all do reasonably creditable jobs of carrying on a conversation, despite having no actual intelligence to speak of. The ensuing [[wikipedia:ELIZA effect|"ELIZA effect"]] was a common reaction to such programs in which people treated the program as a real conversation partner. (To see exactly how easy it really is to simulate a Turing Test-ready conversation, check out this [http://www.atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/showpage.php?page=22 8-bit era BASIC source code.])
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