Translations:Codex: AI Systems/11/en

Grown intelligences are also wholly dependent on unique hardware infrastructures to exist. Attempts to copy or clone fully developed A.I.-Gs are almost always disastrous, and often end with what amounts to insanity on the copy's part. Moving a core from machine to machine is easy enough, but because a grown intelligence's core is in many ways similar to a neural network unique to its host program, even minor hardware changes or replacements to an A.I. core can cause catastrophic debilitation. Small core upgrades can take months for an A.I.-G to adjust to; large alterations can cause what some experts call ‘phantom core syndrome’ to permanently afflict an A.I., much like the human phenomenon of ‘phantom limbs’.