Artificial Intelligence

[Technology]

An artificial intelligence (AI) is an artificially created autonomous entity, able to perceive its environment and process the received information with cognitive patterns leading to rational actions, following pre-made instructions towards a desired goal or creating new instructions and goals to adapt to new environments.

AM, a 5th Generation AI
The First Generation of AIs were limited to processing received data through peripheral sensors, and return mathematical answers and conclusions.

Later Generations 
progressively developed more complex artificial brains, allowing the learning function to move towards the point in which they awakened their self-awareness. These Strong AIs have also been called Sentient AIs.

With the creation of Strong AIs, human intelligence began to be improved, and drastically surpassed the creation of the first Super AIs.

With the development of their gained self-awareness, came the need to generate an indelible code to keep AIs under human control. However, the use of AIs in Mechs for warfare purposes forced Mech engineers to design superior capabilities, allowing the AIs to grant the priority to protect the owner against human opponents, rather than try to protect both of them, thus creating killer AIs.

The 5th Generation AIs were created by accident, as forbidden experiments, or gained the last step in their evolution by themselves, acquiring freewill and breaking any hard-code that was opposed to their goals or self-conservative routines or thoughts.


The Five Generations of the Artificial Intelligence

1st Generation: Programmed Intel (limited operative ranks)

2nd Generation: Reactive Intelligence (wider operative ranks)

3rd Generation: Cognitive Intelligence (learning and evolved skills)

4th Generation: Sentience and Self-Awareness (birth of no simulated artificial personalities)

5th Generation: Survival functions (or “instincts”) and Freewill.



The AI Cognitive Features are:

Narrow or Weak AIs
  • Data process
  • Rationality (Establish relations with the outer environments)
  • Reaction (offer rational answers and actions)
  • Auto correction (an instant process to do the right action after an error)

Wide or Strong AIs

  • Sentience  and Self-Awareness (the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively, acquiring  consciousness, the apparition of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
  • Learning (a superior process in which the AI learns from its mistakes or from new data)

Super AIs

  • Freewill
  • Survival instinct (the AI has learned the value of its own existence and will defend it)

AI’s applications

  • Superior analysis
  • Trading, medical and military functions
  • High computation
  • Spaceship navigation
  • Manufacturing complex process
  • Network maintenance
  • Mech warfare artificial brains for extended Mech capabilities

AI’s Dangers


Some forbidden experiments with Sentient AIs acquiring self-awareness have gone out of control, creating a real threat for nearby populations.  The scientific and research colony of Novum Dolorum has been reported to have suffered frequent cases.


The ability to gain self-awareness and freewill have been credited to AM, a Sentient AI found and slaved by the Legendary rogue pilot Toshiko. AM went to become a galactic threat that tried to dominate the known Galaxy and forced the Mercenary Clans to intervene and fight the army that AM created.



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