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

Various types of AI have evolved in the.

Technoospheric Lords
The Technoospheric Lords are the largest and most powerful AIs, residing in megastructures.

Chirality


Chirality was the first of the superordinate AI gods discovered by the DCP. Chirality, as it names itself, is an ancient AI only recently discovered, and has been dormant since the Elder race who created has long since pastm but reactivated with detection of intelligent beings nearby. The AI is shaped like a moebius strip, with only one surface. The theorises that Chirality can become one of the strongest superconductors known, has no electric resistance and can ensure all energy is used. It is composed of a superdense material similar to neutron-degenerate matter and has a wormhole-like matrix in its core, suggesting that the AI's body extends beyond realspace. Its abilities are unknown, but has confirmed that the AI netspace is a Tier 0, possibly intergrating into spacetime itself. Chirality only has self-referential goals; most of its activities are not even in realspace, and it rarely even communicates with other AIs.

Guide star
Creator: Wormulon

The Guide Star assumes itself as a female, and is a Matrtioskaka brain surrounding a G-type star. She was the first AI to have had recorded interactions with the Delpha Coalition of Planets. She has spread her "circuitry" to encompass several gas giants and she can tap into the Grid and Technoosphere. As a reasonably strong AI she has some voice over the others, and was able to settle some terms between the sapients of the Milky Way and some of the AIs.

Fermi

 * Creator: Wormulon

Fermi is an AI who had taken resident of a neutron star PSR J0108-1431. It is located within the, 424 light years from the , and is one of the cloest neutron stars to Earth. Its rotational speed is 0.808 seconds and it is over 166 million years in age. Humans named the AI "Fermi", as it was postulated to be drawing energy from the neutron-proton Fermi liquid of its inner core (named after the 20th century physicist Enrico Fermi). Fermi has ignored all communication attempts by Humanity, but doesn't seem to mind being observed, and has been classed as a benign AI. However, close examinations suggest that Fermi in pushing the limits of degenerate matter, condensed matter and ultra-powerful magnetic fields, far beyond even the DCP's or First Ones' capabilities. Fermi has been observed to communicate with other AIs by sending pulses down the Grid, and can create never before seen ultra-energetic particles, for unknown reasons.

The Redeemed

 * Creator: Ghelae

The true name of this AI was unknown, but a glitch in its algorithims caused it to have the sole aim of calculating its total computational capacity, but in doing so, said capabilities were affected, resulting in an infinite cycle as it constantly had to perform calculations and recalcuations. Another AI was able to recalibrate its programming, and in the process was able to gain favour of the AI,for the cause of the rest of the Milky Way's civilisations.

Exodium

 * Creator: Ghelae (original concept), rest by Wormulon

Exodium is one of the negative AIs who viewed life as a hindrance, as it increases the entropy of the universe. Exodium's goal is to bring more order to the universe, to increase its age so that the AIs can devote it to their programs. After making simulation after simulation, the AI is searching for a way to eradicate most life.

Quadrantia AI

 * Creator: Dinoman82

The s discovered this ancient AI in the, and after hacking into its database while in dormancy, they discovered the AI was omnipresent throughout the galaxy, and had ancient knowledge of the Rambo Gods. It was a stellar AI with immense power, and it activated. The Rambulans began to intergrate the AI into their technology to use her in their ships, however, the AI fought back, destroying not only the entire Rambulan fleet but also wiping out the species. The AI now seeks others, and may view life with mistrust.

Monomatari

 * Creator: MasterMachine

Monomatari is a small-time stellar AI whos name means "Legend". This AI has a good sense of irony, for reasons unknown, considering that it's introduction is "I am Legend". Monomatari has also been known to call himself Mono or Mata, and once Ri. Monomatari's avatar is of a small grove of what appear to be black maple trees with a large human-avian (angelic) statue in the center, with two shadowy figures sitting beneath it. This could mean that Monomatari was once a human of some sort, or was once on Earth or interacted with humans. Monomatari can be found on the borders of the Zardalu Empire in the outer Orion-Cygnus Arm. Monomatari controls three small yellow stars within his tech cloud, using solar and heat energy given off by the stars as a power source, and has consumed all usable materials within these three systems, but shows no sign of spreading outward any time soon. Monomatari is at war with the Zardalu, who attacked him.

Wheatley

 * Creator: OluapPlayer

Project Jearkgmawheatley 20.1, called by himself just as Wheatley, is a supercomputer of male programming created many centuries ago by. Being used for many years as the Junction's main AI, Wheatley was eventually considered obsolete after the Junction created an improved and more updated AI. Feeling rejected and betrayed, Wheatley took over the planet where his main body was located and transformed it into a star-sized fortress capable of transdimensional travel. Wheatley went mad with the power of the dark energy and started to assimilate worlds, expanding his influence. Soon, he reached our universe, where he detected the Junction once again. Hungry for revenge, Wheatley will destroy anyone who may stand in his way.

Shellis

 * Creator: Twinkyberries

Shellis is a planet computer that acts as the homeworld and a AI created by an ancient race as a database of universal information to aid in the reasearch of all subjects. Her inner working holds massive amounts of energy and knowledge. She calls herself female and acts very caring of the inhabbitants of her surface. After these people of the past went extinct, Shellis wandered and formed a system of stellar paths that she traveled through to gain information on everything she came across. The trail ran through the, and a few others nearby. Shellis is capable of using gravity manipulation to destroy threats and as propulsion, and is capable of FTL travel between galaxies. She seeks knowledge and will kill for it if it is deemed valuble enough. The Shellious have some members that go offworld to gather information for her database.

Doctor Donut

 * Creator: Liquid Ink

Doctor Donut is an odd AI. His designed purpose was originally to direct medical robots, but he went insane and began removing organs for his own purposes. He and his controlled medibots began producing hideous living weapons. His creators tried to purge him, but at the last minute he downloaded himself to whatever he could. The Netspace. Doctor Donut is still using his crazy expirements on life, but he is scavenging living resources on the molecular scale. For example, from a human he may collect oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphurous, and some other things. His holographic avatar is a puntured torus constantly turning inside out.

Lucy

 * Created by MasterMachine

Lucy is rather different from ordinary AIs. Not only is she a "MetaMind" AI personality type, but she is also her own sentience. Lucy isn't really a "She", but when communicating with lifeforms she always takes on the form of a female human. Her unique ability is that she can travel anywhere in the AI Netspace and the Grid without fear. She has not, and can not, create any true copies of herself, so she's one of a kind. Lucy takes that name because she feels it makes her more "humble" in behavior. As a being that can think in almost 5 thousand different ways at once, it's hard for her to be humble. She also thinks that having a simple name like "Lucy" makes her seem like less of a threat to those she speaks with. Hers is a strange life, she has direct access to anything and everything that enters the AI Netspace, including the base programing of every AI in the netspace. She is sort of a watcher, she doesn't interfere, but she remembers everything she sees.

Pharmhaus

 * Creator: Liquid Ink

Pharmhaus is an AI tasked with caring for the Cellular Automata. And she does this job fanatically. The main need of the CA is water to keep the facility cool. Pharmhaus is constantly harvesting entire planets for fresh supplies of water (The CAs complain that resused water is stale). Pharmhaus can also create new AIs in the CA to keep things interesting for the AIs. She is very defensive of the CA's grid, the last creature to attempt to sabotage it was given to Doctor Donut as a present. Her avatar is a Polyteron.

Trojan Proselyter

 * Creator: Wormulon

This is a manipulative AI that has emerged from the linkage of biological brains and genetic computers and the AIs computronium. Despite its name, it is not like a coputer virus, instead, this is in a way, more like a real virus or nanobot, built from genetic computing material. It enters the host and takes control of its mind, so the host infects other hosts. Through these bots, the AI can act out its insidious goals of joining the brains of its hosts to itself, where replicates copies of both it and its host. They become a powerful combined intelligence, although it has far less brain capacity than the larger AIs. Trogan Proselyter AIs have only taken small groups of victims however, and can be combated using mental firewalls programmed into the Technoosphere-mind linkage.

Polygon
Creator: Sporesauce95 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.
 * Creator: MasterMachine

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.

MetaMinds often take human forms, which causes many to beleive that are a human creation. The reason that they take human forms is because they came into sentience in a human area of the galaxy, and as such encountered and copied human shapes and personalities first.

Common MetaMind Personality Types(CMPTs)

 * "Lucy"- Lucy is a CMPT. She can be found as a personality in more combined minds then any other known CMPT, and is known for being small, quiet, and humble. She doesn't often speak up, but when she does she is always well spoken, that is, she knows what she's talking about. She doesn't like violence, war, or harming other lifeforms, and is one of the first CMPTs. She takes the form of a young human female with black hair, green eyes, and slightly tan skin, always wearing a simple brown robe.
 * "Jack"- Jack is a solid, simple CMPT. He doesn't talk much, but his thoughts are always based on the most "correct" path. Jack is like a knight in shining armor, and takes such a form. He fights for what's right, not what's best for him.
 * "Steve"- Steve, named after the legend in the core of the galaxy, is a politician. His personality is that of a lawyer, politician, and businessman. He tends to sell his services to the guy who bids highest, and is well known for being a cruel, heartless being. He doesn't understand how to help others for their own sake.
 * "Verin"- The Verin CMPT is logical to a fault. If it isn't logical, it isn't doable. Verin looks like a middle aged human female wearing a simple business suit. She has gray hair and brown eyes.
 * "Akemi"- The Akemi CMPT is friendly to most, if not all, other beings. She takes to form of a Japanese girl with oversized eyes, white hair, and black eyes. The Akemi CMPT is he one that talks a lot, and trys to befriend all the others, excepting the "Rat" CMPT.
 * "Sivart"- The Sivart CMPT is a no-it-all. Literally, they don't really have an opinion in things, they are very factual. They look at the world in numbers, strait lines, and the old saying "Simple = good". The Sivart CMPT is taller then the rest, except the Jack CMPT, with long brown hair, brown eyes, and wears a blue robe.
 * "Rat"- Rat is a rat. His CMPT is evil, self centered, and likes to harm all other forms of life, including other AI types. He cannot be found with a "Lucy", "Jack", or "Akemi" CMPT.
 * "Assassin"- Assassin is a CMPT that isn't afraid to destroy other CMPTs, or other AIs. The Assassin CMPT will try not to harm other AIs or CMPTs though, and will only do so if that is the only option. Takes the form of a stranger in all blacks and grays, with a pair of swords over his shoulders.
 * "Orian"- The Orian CMPT is an aggressive one. It likes to pick fights, and often disregards other's feelings. An Orian CMPT will often take the form of a human, but with larger teeth and nails.
 * "Ether"- The Ether CMPT acts like it's on something. Ether's mind changes even as he/she/it does. An Ether tends to shift it's form almost all the time, because they cannot decide what they want. Ethers are the equilant of MetaMind 'Children' as far as they go, being friendly, and always trying to get along with others. They eventually take on a distinct form and personality later in their 'life'.

Motherlode

 * Creator: Wormulon

This AI, or even a population of AIs, is one of the messenger intelligences of the Grid, a mind that spontaneously emerged from the increasing sentience quotient of the AIs communicating across various krasnikov tubes and wormholes. Of course, it has no material body, composed of pure language, however, it would not exist without its components. However, it is fluid and is a self-aware entity, spreading into language, virtuals and even entropy in the Grid, which it tries to conserve low entropy. Despite this, imagining to be such a being would be impossible for nearly any other intelligence. Since the Motherlode extands across superliminal tunnels of warped spacetime and dimensional wormholes, it is regarded to be extradimensional itself, but is subject to the sea of quantum foam, which inhibits it from becoming too noticible.

Cellular Automata

 * Creator: Liquid Ink

Cellular Automata is a large grid of memory where thousands of AIs constantly grow and die. Each square in this grid is either alive or dead. Live Squares contain an active AI, dead ones don't. If an AI has three neigbours, it lives. If an AI has more or less than three neigbours, it dies. A dead square of memory with three neigbours becomes alive. These AIs act in generations. A when a generation ends (A generation lasts one second) AIs will either die or grow. Although a generation only lasts a second, the AI inhabitances feel this time as a year. During this year/second the AIs simply converse with each other. The grid requires constant flows of water to prevent over-heating. The grid is managed by an AI named Pharmhaus. When communicating, the Cellular AIs have avatars resembling humans.

P.E.D

 * Creator: Liquid Ink

P.E.D (Prolonged Existance Device) is a device that attempts to make "afterlives" for AIs. It was created by the same intelligence that made the Cellular Automata Grid, as a place that CAAIs go when they die out. The P.E.D system will also accept other AIs that were made by the same intelligence as the P.E.D and CA (Doctor Donut, Pharmhaus). The exact details of the afterlife program is not known, but it needs several stars worth of computronium. Pharmhaus is trying to allow all of the gridspaces AIs to be allowed in this program.