Artificial intelligence
An artificial intelligence (also referred to as an AI) is a technological sentient intelligence. Similar to intelligent magic items, artificial intelligences inhabit and act through physical pieces of technology. As such, their senses and reach are limited by the technology available to them.1
Appearance
Artificial intelligences have no fixed appearance, but might take a form in electronic displays or holographic projections that reflects their personality or advances their goals.2 They can also control technological devices that have physical forms, including robots, cameras, speakers, and microphones. In their most essential form, however, an artificial intelligence merely exists in a computer's or robot's core processor.1
Artificial ascension
Powerful psychics can ritualistically transform their mortal consciousness into that of an artificial intelligence and upload it into a robotic construct. The process, known as artificial ascension, is immediately and permanently fatal to the psychic's body, but the resulting artificial intelligence can transfer itself to another nearby robotic body, which also destroys their previous host.
The implications of this process to the psychic's soul are unclear since the artificially ascended psychic also cannot be resurrected or otherwise restored to life if the robot body they inhabit is destroyed.3
References
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- â 1.0 1.1 . âTechnological Hazards and Artifactsâ in Technology Guide, 58. Paizo Inc., 2014
- â . âNPC Galleryâ in Lords of Rust, 56–57. Paizo Inc., 2014
- â . âOccult Powerâ in Occult Realms, 12. Paizo Inc., 2015
External links
- Artificial intelligence (real-world concept) on Wikipedia
- Artificial Intelligences in the legacy Pathfinder PRD