Translations:Codex: AI Systems/5/en

Perhaps the greatest scientific breakthrough after the advent of the Warp Gates was the introduction of true artificial intelligences whose ability to reason, adapt, and learn equaled or exceeded their organic designers. The first of these are what we today call A.I.-D, or designed A.I.s. Designed intelligences are made in much the same way as V.I.s are, via intensive system design and implementation processes, potentially involving thousands of A.I. system programmers. Designed intelligences are usually the product of mega-corporations such as JoyCo, who mass-produce them from selections of templates which, when combined, create a functional intelligence. Each template is monumentally expensive to make, both in terms of hardware and software design costs.