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Artificial Intelligence

Degrees of AI Sapience- Artificial Intelligences' are by definition Sapient (commonly referred to as intelligent); they simply differ in degrees of capabilities. Five classes have been produced and recognized by the modern scientific community, with one addition hypothetical class and one reserved for those AI designed and built by the ancient Precursors, known as Paragons.

Class V - Simple, task oriented machine intelligence. Not much more sophisticated than an animal. Follows tasks to the letter, has limited capabilities to adapt to changing situations, relying on either biological input or that of a more sophisticated AI.

Class IV- Smarter, having adaptive recognition software able to identify individuals and various situations based on advanced pattern analysis. Often used by Military, police, and security drones and surveillance networks.

Class III- Better adaptive recognition, with predictive algorithms helpful for identifying things faster than a biological reaction time. Greatly improved precision computing and motor control. Used primarily in medical robots as surgical assistants capable of augmenting a surgeon's skill or perform surgery where a surgeon can otherwise not be, such as a quarantined ship.

Class II- Adaptive, predictive, and capable of making inferences or subjective based calculations. Used heavily in translation software and a must have for anyone in a long term interspecies diplomatic or trade position.

Class I- Adaptive, predictive, subjective reasoning and basic "creativity". While not truly capable of being classically creative, such as producing art, it can create extremely complex facsimiles using the component parts of existing works of creativity. Presented with a gallery of art by a notable artist, a Class I may produce a piece that could pass for a long lost work by the original artist. Class Is require substantial input material to properly render believable models, but when sufficiently supplied, produce high quality simulations and replicas with ease.

Class 0- No AI has yet been developed that passes the threshold to Class 0, that being a system in possession of the full range of emotional and cognitive function exhibited by biological Saipents. A fully Sentient AI.

Paragon Class- These AI, developed not by any known race but the enigmatic Precursors, out-perform every expectation and seem to defy the laws of physics. All computation is limited by a temperature threshold as noted by the Lando Principle [(kT ln?2) where k is the Boltmin Constant and T is the temperature of the heat sinks in Kelvin and ln 2 is the Natural Logarithm of 2)]. However, the Paragons seem to perform computations far beyond what should be possible, given the lowest possible value of T is 3K (the value of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation) leaving much speculation as to how they defy this seemingly universal limit. In addition, it is strongly believed they communicate via Faster Than Light signals, something that also defies known physics. Its well known that Superluminal travel is made possible by manipulating space in a warp field, but this is better seen as cheating the speed of light rather than outpacing it. Communicating faster than light should be impossible, as photons can't power up an onboard warp drive. How they do these marvels is a secret they refuse (or are unable to) share with anyone, and may remain a mystery till the day the Lupine people encounter our creators once more.

-See System Network Article 75569226A through 75570583T for further information on the Paragons and their role in Lupine society.

Direct study of the Paragons and the technology employed in their construction is unfeasible, as they are irreplaceable relics to our culture and a true being with a will all their own. The same protections one might presume of a Lupis citizen are afforded to the Paragons, regardless of what we might learn by studying them. Scanning, imaging or other non-invasive study of the Paragons is prohibited by law and any attempt to open, break or otherwise tamper with the Paragons is treason, punishable by death. This leaves scientists to the pursuit of creating a model of a truly Sentient AI by our contemporary civilization, first Class 0 then potentially one of Paragon complexities of wholly our own making.

Joint Synthetic Intelligence Research Center (J-SIR)-

A sizable research complex located on Arct Kyber as a part of the larger Advanced Science and Military Logistical (ASML) Center. The J-SIR Centers' primary field of study is Artificial Intelligence and advanced computing and is a jointly held laboratory with the Ottarian Council government to strengthen both nations technological understanding of AIs. Several notable breakthroughs have occurred here, including the development and implementation of the first Class I AIs just over 50 years ago. Presently, the J-SIR center has pressed its focus on the Joint Advanced System for Projected Electronic Reasoning (JASPER) project, in which it seeks to further push the frontier of AI development.

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JOURNAL ENTRY-(This is amazing! The system responded in ways we had not expected to see for years. Yesterday, JASPER displayed what I believe to be "bitterness" or "resentment" towards two of the cadets from the Military center who did exceptionally well in one of his sims. The first sim was pretty normal, the only noteworthy thing was the cadet had extremely high marks, close to record breaking for the type of sim used. The following sim, he constructed a virtual representation of the first cadet, much to the second cadets surprise based on his vital monitors. This second cadet also performed really well in the sim, I was not expecting much given Jasp threw him in the deep end right from the start. A naval battle. Was pretty neat to watch, really, like something out of an action vid. Jasp went in expecting a pretty mild current seeing as he can beat the teeth out of any naval warfare game I throw him in, but wow one major difference between a breathing person and Jasp has to be thinking outside the box. The pup ordered one of his dying ships to ram into Jasps flag, basically crippling it. Course, whenever Jasp plays space combat games against another AI, they don't do stuff like that. Stuff you CAN do in reality but can't in a game. So, Jasp took the idea and tried to turn it on the cadet, it didn't work as well though and Jasp was on the defensive with the cadets battleship bearing down on him. So Jasper did what any other self respecting sapient with total control over the details of a game would do if they were about to lose: he cheated. Come on Jasp, like anyone believed you still had a functioning hyperdrive on that wreck still? Such a sore loser! Then he had to go an be all melodramatic with a transition to "the next day" and then tell the cadet he got Alurius blown up. Poor pup, he was a mess when I cut the connection. I would have gone to say something to him, but Raging Seas, did I have a ton of new data to look over. The readings we got from Jasp were nothing short of astounding. I think we're close to 0. Like, really close. Closer than anyone's ever dared think about in a long time.)

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