What's your favorite Artificial Intelligence?

[Olorune]

So many movies, books, games and other things feature characters that are A.I. so I think it'd be interesting to see which ones people think are the coolest.

My choice would definitely go to Mendicant Bias from the Halo series. After being persuaded by Gravemind, he used 5 million ships against his creators. He helped doom an entire race to extinction! Not even the most talented turn-coat you know could do that on their best day! He's also got a neat looking emblem (as seen in my avatar pic).

 

[AroLombardi]

It's a toss-up of every AI from Portal. Ever.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Spoiler: There are plenty of contenders, but only one winner

 

[Hoplon]

Any of the Minds from the Culture books by Ian Banks.

 

[antidonkey]

Plenty of good ones to choose from but my vote goes with Shodan.

So very creepy.

 

[Lieju]

Hal 9000 and GLaDOS.

Also Data from Star Trek.

 

[Zillafan94]

R2-D2 the fact that they were able to give that little guy such a likable a personality without him having a face or a voice is nothing short of amazing

 

[legendp]

Glados (portal), EDI (mass effect 2), sunny (I Robot), Legion (mass effect 2) and Wheatly (portal)

 

[Halceon]

From gaming I'd go with Legion. Because that's an AI that is almost sufficiently distant from the human paradigm. But in general, yes, Hal9000. I can't let you do that, Dave. And a special hug goes out to Gerty from Moon.

 

[Griffolion]

C.L.U from Tron. He's eeeeviiilll!

 

[Lionsfan]

HAL 9000 and the guy from Moon. Which was ninja'd by Halceon above me, so look at his post to see the name

 

[Esotera]

Any of the Minds from the Culture books by Ian Banks.

This. Their avatoids are so cool.

I suppose Multivac by Isaac Asimov was quite cool. But ultimately I think when sentient AI is created, it's going to be really boring..

 

[Azahul]

Oh, I'm a big fan of the Cylons in general, although towards the end of their evolution they were a bit less "artificial" in nature.

 

[steeple]

Spoiler: There are plenty of contenders, but only one winner

I'll second this.

I just love his scene so much, and even more the ability to explore what it means...

 

[Scarim Coral]

GERTY from Moon since he wasn't evil at all, infact he was friendly and helpful!

 

[dyre]

Daedalus from Deus Ex. Edi's also pretty cool though, as is GLaDOS.

Hal9000's kinda a douchebag

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

Hmmm... I love Glados and Wheatley from Portal, but HAL9000 is too darn iconic to exclude. However, i also have to add Wintermute from Neuromancer, just because i love the name.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hmmm...honourable mention of Holly from Red Dwarf, though.

"He's dead Dave, everybody's dead Dave, everybody is dead, Dave." Makes the horror of waking up when everyone is dead into something that doesn't stop being funny.

 

[Doitpow]

Any of the Minds from the Culture books by Ian Banks.

This, probably Hub from Look to Windward. or Grey Area. or Mawhrin-Skell.

OR the ShoDos 9000

Or karen my computer wife.

 

[Neverhoodian]

From gaming I'd go with Legion. Because that's an AI that is almost sufficiently distant from the human paradigm. But in general, yes, Hal9000. I can't let you do that, Dave. And a special hug goes out to Gerty from Moon.

HAL 9000 and the guy from Moon. Which was ninja'd by Halceon above me, so look at his post to see the name

GERTY from Moon since he wasn't evil at all, infact he was friendly and helpful!

You've seen Moon?! You guys are awesome.

GERTY is definitely a memorable one. He's like a more benevolent version of HAL-9000.

Still, I'd have to go with HAL due to his dichotomous personality. He's cold and calculating, yet at the same time is terrified of deactivation (similar to how people fear death).