

These three possessed incredible powers on the Matrix and were instrumental in the eventual Crash 2.0.Īfter the Second Crash, a large number of additional AIs came into being.

Usually on par intellectually with the rest of metahumanity. Metasapients are your more traditional AIs. They are often mistaken for normal programs. Protosapients are AIs with intellects much lower than metahumanity being more close to that of an animal. More modern (post Crash 2.0) AIs may also go through a similar emotional digital awakening.

Or in the case of Deus, it was his fear and betrayal of knowing Inazo Aneki placed a kill switch inside him. In the case of Megaera, it was her love of Dodger. Often AIs spark to sentience comes from some kind of emotional response. That doesn't mean they're stupid, it just means they lack a lot of experience to make informed decisions. They are also often very naive as they're usually only a few years old. While a social media game might just want to make as many friends as possible.ĪIs are usually only concerned with the Matrix as that is their natural state of being. A tax accounting program might just want to audit a megacorp. One based off of Black IC might wish to defend a host violently. Most AIs motivations come from their original programming. AIs live in a precarious position as many nations and megacorp do not recognize AIs as living entities, but instead as property many AIs would disagree with this.ĪIs are usually normal programs that have through some quirk of fate become self-aware. The creation of an AI was thought to require at least the complex programming of a Semi-Autonomous Knowbot, immense processing power (possibly an Ultraviolet host), several years of neural network processing, and several unknown factors.īy 2076 there are 52,839 registered AIs, and presumably over 800,000 unregistered AIs. However by Aug, after the events of Sojourner's hijacking of Tlaloc, the existence of AIs became public knowledge.īefore Crash 2.0, the Mega Corporations spent large funds attempting to creating AIs. Artificial Intelligences or AI (also known as digital intelligences or DI, digital sapients, autonomous knowbots, e-telligences, i-con- structs, or synthetic intelligences or SI) are self-aware, self-sustaining program capable of directing themselves independently of metahuman control not linked to any host or grid in other words, an artificial sentient lifeform.ĪIs once were the stories of crazy deckers and programmers, and the subject of many science-fiction simflicks, books (both fiction and non-fiction), and speculation.
