Fiction:AI Netspace/AI Personalities

"What is the ghost in the machine? What is it that make some machines act this way, and others act in a different way?"

- Unknown

As the various types of AI have evolved, some have taken interest in certain things. These are either groups of AI's or individuals.

Polygon
The Polygons is common group of machines. They are a kind of working all the time and never stops to talk kind of entities. The funny thing about Polygons is that, they can't really interact with the real dimensions. They are completely virtual and can only appear if they are materialized as holographic projections. But the Polygons don't care about that. Though sapient the absence of feelings to them is nothing but usual, they fly around as binary codes all day anyway.

When they do happen to be projected into the real world, a Polygon takes different forms, depending on it's "maturity". New Polygons often appear as blocky not-so feline things and often have trouble moving outside the virtual world. More mature Polygons often take the shape of a usual cat, but often more round in the edges, some even like to put wings on their back.

MetaMinds
MetaMinds are AIs that have separate personalities within the same greater being. They tend to have greater sensitivity to moral values and the value of life then other AIs, mainly due to their personalities being copied from living creatures. MetaMinds can often battle themselves on a subject, and within the virtual world they often appear as councils or groups of people that act as one faction. A MetaMind cannot act until all the personalities agree, and when they try to do so without all of them agreeing, the MetaMind will break apart into two or more new, smaller MetaMinds. They are fluid, they change their mind a lot, and they often take sides.

MetaMinds can take a physical form by controlling machines like nanotech and bots and ships. They will not hesitate to steal stuff from non-virtual empires, and they do take sides, so they can often get themselves involved in wars. They can only control as many ships as they have personalities, with a personality per ship. Depending on an individual MetaMinds personalities, it could be a bloodthirsty killer, or a friendly, benevolent being.

The MetaMinds will often wage virtual and war with one another, but as of yet they have not been given the resources to do so on a grand scale. They can, after all, only use a certain amount of processing power, if they overdo themselves they can end up slowing down and freezing, so they are careful not to overdo it.

When a MetaMind "dies" it merely means that the personalities have broken apart and are now forming new MetaMinds. Oftentimes, a single personalty will be present in hundreds, or even thousands, of MetaMinds, and MetaMinds with like personalities will often merge and unmerge, like water in a stream. To them, the universe is a vast network of personalities, and the ones that differ should be destroyed utterly.