LogFAQs > #885804519

I don't mean a small niche market, I mean a big one.

Metal Gear Rising had an interesting take on the concept, where they designed computers that were more like organic brains than traditional computers to achieve "human like learning ability", so much so that these "brain" computers couldn't be programmed, they would instead put them through a VR simulation to essentially "raise" them to serve their purpose, but have the process fast forwarded so it could be mass produced (the mass manufactured ones roughly had the intelligence of a child but had the efficiency of machines).

Funnily enough, there was a company that succeeded in created a "brain" computer that housed a fully intelligent, sentient AI, but the project was shut down after their first prototype because it was decided that sentient AIs have no market appeal over non sentient AIs since they can't be forced to blindly do something passionately and risk disobeying.

Than you have Megaman Battle Network, where everyone basically has an intelligent, sentient AI as their personal assistant (they have the ability to disagree with and refuse to do things their owners ask of them, but it's not really a problem that deters their use).
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