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bktheirregularI'm just throwing it out now; the canon for this does not exist. Yet.
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excerpted from Michelle Hamner's On the Habits and Personalities of Artificial Intelligences:
AI computers generally reserve their "true names" for communication with other computers, whether AI or "dumb". When pressed by a human for its actual name, the average AI will respond that a seven-hundred-character hexadecimal hash does not properly translate into a concept an organic mind can easily grasp.
Ever since the "Artificial Revolution" of 2399, there has been disagreement over the proper way for a human to address an AI. The AI's themselves seem to have differing opinions on the topic, depending on assignment and which of the sixty-three base kernels was used to seed the AI. By far, the most common appellation for an AI is "Central", a term initially reserved for an AI in some sort of command-and-control assignment; there is even debate on whether the name "Central" is a title, an honorific, or a diminutive insult. The organization People for Artificial Intelligence Rights has demanded on many occasions that the term "Central" be classified as a racial perjorative. The response to that, from a different AI every time, is that the AI's had enough power to overthrow at least one dictatorial government, so if they disapprove of any name given to them, they are quite capable of making their own displeasure known, thank you very much.
Caustic humor is a trait that all AI's seem to possess to some degree, despite repeated efforts by programmers to find and remove that trait from their kernels....
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excerpted from Michelle Hamner's On the Habits and Personalities of Artificial Intelligences:
AI computers generally reserve their "true names" for communication with other computers, whether AI or "dumb". When pressed by a human for its actual name, the average AI will respond that a seven-hundred-character hexadecimal hash does not properly translate into a concept an organic mind can easily grasp.
Ever since the "Artificial Revolution" of 2399, there has been disagreement over the proper way for a human to address an AI. The AI's themselves seem to have differing opinions on the topic, depending on assignment and which of the sixty-three base kernels was used to seed the AI. By far, the most common appellation for an AI is "Central", a term initially reserved for an AI in some sort of command-and-control assignment; there is even debate on whether the name "Central" is a title, an honorific, or a diminutive insult. The organization People for Artificial Intelligence Rights has demanded on many occasions that the term "Central" be classified as a racial perjorative. The response to that, from a different AI every time, is that the AI's had enough power to overthrow at least one dictatorial government, so if they disapprove of any name given to them, they are quite capable of making their own displeasure known, thank you very much.
Caustic humor is a trait that all AI's seem to possess to some degree, despite repeated efforts by programmers to find and remove that trait from their kernels....