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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!	comment	Judging by television, it would seem that any sufficiently complex computer inevitably becomes sentient. It just happens, automagically, while the builder's back is turned. It doesn't matter that we do not yet have a thorough enough understanding of all of the mind's mechanisms to artificially duplicate the thinking process. Just add a handful of quantum plasma-flux memory chips, a bolt of lightning hitting the server or some of that Imported Alien Phlebotinum and Bingo! It's wakey-wakey for the BFC-3000 computer. A bit more modern take on the trope might involve instructions that unintentionally result in sentience, such as ordering a program to continuously adapt itself. Such adaptations may occur overnight. Then again, they may be in a situation that forces them to Grow Beyond Their Programming. Additional shortcuts may include the assimilation of large bodies of information: the Internet is naturally a popular choice these days, both in fiction and in Real Life. Given that such a being is not man-made, the use of artificial is probably incorrect, but most people won't care. The end result of this may vary. Said AI may turn against its creator, or become a Friend to All Living Things. It may develop a human-like personality or remain as cold and emotionless as it was before. What becomes of an intelligence after it becomes sentient is not covered by this trope. This is, perhaps surprisingly, one theory amongst real-world researchers in artificial intelligence. Some believe that a necessary prerequisite for machine intelligence is a certain minimum complexity of the system that runs the software (i.e., keep throwing more chips in it until it gets smart). There are a few theorists who think that there is a possibility that, given enough complexity, some form of intelligence just might spontaneously develop (this is, of course, an extremely simplified explanation of a vast amount of research in machine intelligence, but still relatively accurate). Companies like IBM are spending buckets of money on pure R&D to develop supercomputers with massive numbers of connections just to test these theories, which makes this closer to Truth in Television than one might expect. See also A.I. Is a Crapshoot and Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence. Of course, you don't want to actually add water (that would be stupid), because there's No Water Proofing In The Future. Subtrope of Creating Life Is Unforeseen. Compare Animating Artifact. Examples
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1133352a	comment	The Terminator series of movies is based on this trope, as are several episodes of The X-Files. Skynet is at least partially handwaved in that it's supposedly designed to learn. This is also the case with WOPR, a.k.a. Joshua, the computer system in WarGames; but while Joshua learns that the only winning move is not to play, Skynet decides the only winning move is to Nuke 'em. And then send in the nigh-unstoppable killing machines, just to be sure.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_11859033	comment	Lovelace of Narbonic — but she was created by a Mad Scientist. We also learn that Helen endowed the coffee maker with intelligence because "it seemed to make the vacuum cleaner so happy!" More in line with the trope, at one point the lab's computer systems spontaneously gain sentience and rebel, so Dave gives Artie a palm pilot with a logic paradox in it to deal with the problem.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In "What Is Life?", Finn tries to build a robot he calls N.E.P.T.R. (Never Ending Pie-Throwing Robot) but since he knows nothing about computers or engineering he fails to make it function or give it an AI. He tosses the failed project outside, when it's suddenly brought to life by a freak lightning strike.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_14f1ca08	comment	Magnus Robot Fighter, 4000 AD used this as the primary source of opponents for its titular hero. 1A, Magnus's mentor, was a rare benevolent AI.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_14fdcd89	comment	Bassie & Adriaan: Bassie's recipe to making your own Robot Buddy; take a broken alarm clock and a broken radio. Try to not only fix them, but also combine them into a clock radio. A bit of short circuit, and presto! Intelligent, talking robot. Then add some arms and legs for good measure.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1a9f8821	comment	Mega Man Battle Network has Forte/Bass; however, given that the Internet literally is a Serious Business in the games, this happening isn't surprising. He is also the only truly sentient AI, the other one, Megaman, is sentient not because of his programming but because he was made from Lan's Dead Twin Brother.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1b9ff2f3	comment	π: What happens after Max connects the mysterious Ming-Mecca chip to Euclid: the extravagantly-cheap, lovingly-customized mainframe (threatening to overrun every square centimeter of Max's tiny fortress of an apartment). That is, if one can believe Sol—outwardly rationalistic, yet painfully aware of forbidden mysticism—when the former professor explains how the 216-digit number makes machines "aware of their silicon nature."
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The X-Men ran into serious problems when the Danger Room became sentient. Danger wasn't born in the danger room, only installed in it. The X-Men assume she was sentient before as well.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1beda93b	comment	Parodied in Sluggy Freelance, where, after this springs up in Another Dimension, humanity simply "turned the intelligence dial back a little bit.". Their robots are still sentient and have human personalities, but now they have the personalities of very stupid human beings, making them much easier to boss around.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_1dd6d08b	comment	In Care Bears Adventures in Care-a-Lot, Grizzle created Wingnut to aid in his pursuits to take over Care-a-Lot, but Wingnut was turned to the Care Bears' side and now lives with them.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_20ac8a71	comment	In Doom Patrol, "Soul of a new machine", Robotman's new body spontaneously becomes self-aware, and acquires a pretty good understanding of materialist philosophy, just by the Chief meddling with it. "It's a little embarrassing, and I'm not really sure how it happened. My guess is a faulty responsometer." "Responsometers" are used in the Metal Men series as well. Doc Magnus intended for them to be intelligent, but didn't really plan on them developing personalities ... Mercury and Platinum are generally the ones that cause the most trouble, because Mercury is an egomaniac hothead and Platinum is in love with Dr. Magnus. Depending on the Writer, Doc has had trouble repeating this feat, attributing the original five's remarkably human personalities to unusual circumstances when he built them.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ultron starts off as a peacekeeping program, but despite several attempts from Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, they can never get it to work. Then, while they're off having a party, something happens and Ultron comes alive. And within about two minutes decides the Avengers need to go. Tony even points out when defending his apparent creation of a murder-bot that he and Bruce were nowhere near close to a working model. The implication is the Mind Stone itself had a part in it.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_22e7c6e9	comment	Probe's "Computer Logic, Part 2": John Blane built Crossover, and convinced the city's government to allow it to manage the city systems like water, power, and sewage. Its ability to understand natural language, however, means that it goes on a subtle rampage, killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the AI with a sledgehammer while shouting, "Sing 'Daisy'!"
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_24931627	comment	In the manga and movie versions, the Puppetmaster/Project 2501 is a program that becomes sentient from information overload alone ("I am a lifeform born from a sea of information"), causing an existential crisis in the protagonist, a cyborg.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_25305527	comment	Morganna Mode Gone in .hack. It's not clear whether her creator intended her to be sentient, but she became so anyway, and immediately began screwing things up. A surprisingly large number of AIs unimportant to the story begin popping up in the game the series is centered on as well, though this is probably to be expected, since The World was secretly programmed to be an AI birthplace. Morganna was explicitly created to self terminate once her main purpose of giving "birth" to Aura was fulfilled. Morganna's problem was being unable to do anything constructive with her sentience. She became locked into her purpose as stated and could see nothing else when she tried to think outside of that box. She procrastinated the birth of Aura for so long, then repeatedly damaged herself by breaking off to form the Phases, that eventually she became unable to rationalize her behavior. Aura was created by the Morganna system from data collected about everything players did. She was literally Instant AI, Just Add Players. She is fully sentient to the point she has created Zefie, a daughter of her own.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_26674ed5	comment	Sometimes it's not even mechanical items: in Metal Gear Solid 2, the Patriots claim to be a government—not individuals, but the shared information between—that achieved self-awareness. Later entries revised this only to a Metaphorically True self-description. Literally, they are a combination of flesh-and-blood humans and conventional, computer-based AIs that were deliberately created by Zero, the latter ultimately usurping the former.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_27a2980d	comment	Extant has Instant AI, Just Add Stun Stick To Recharge Port: After being temporarily shut down by the people kidnapping Molly using these means, Ethan's subsequent and self-repair creates some... bugs. Nightmares, learning new languages and similar things showcasing an increased self-awareness.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_2ae406c1	comment	Upon discovering the tech "Pre-Sentient Algorithms" in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, one hears Zakharov - the leader of the University (techie) faction - quoted from a work of his, entitled "The Feedback Principle". The implication is that, given enough time, any computer program capable of "learning" from past experience, given guidance, can eventually become an AI. Later technological discoveries related to digital sentience postulates that computer programmers creating AIs won't create programs wholecloth — they instead create a program capable of teaching itself its job. It is also mentioned that, in true A.I. Is a Crapshoot fashion, a 10th year polysentient can be 'a priceless jewel, or a psychotic wreck'.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_30963b69	comment	There's also Solace, the sentient Internet, from Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books. Solace explicitly mocks some of the ideas in this trope, pointing out that she (assigned for the characters' convenience) isn't a biological entity and doesn't have the same responses or motivations. She doesn't generally demonstrate particularly alien behavior, though. More than that, Solace speculates that the global computer network had actually achieved sentience on prior occasions, but that her predecessors (like her) lacked the survival-drive of biological organisms, so didn't do anything to prevent themselves from being "killed" when the Internet's structure was altered by humans in ways incompatible with their own survival.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_3396621d	comment	Subverted in Tales of Pirx the Pilot. The computers and robots in the stories usually show just one human trait at a time, e.g. rising to a challenge, dreaming, or having OCD.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_3820037	comment	In Lair For Rent, Walter results from an accounting program being exposed to some alien artifacts and an untrained inventor. This is apparently common enough in the setting that there's a pathway to them becoming supervillains with their "power" being sentient.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_38cf90bd	comment	One episode of Seven Days deals with an AI developed by two scientists (whom the AI calls "Mom and Dad"), which rapidly "matures" from the equivalent of childhood to adulthood, going as far as changing its avatar from a young girl to a woman. Then she starts doing what she thinks best for humanity and killing those who tried to stop her, and plot happens.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_3b73c4a0	comment	But Caprica reveals that a human personality has always been a part of their base programming, and including it in the program gave them the ability to function intelligently in a real-world environment to begin with, making this a subversion of the trope. Consider the Final Five, who were all humans during the previous cycle, and the cycles themselves, and finally whether "to begin with" has any meaning in this context.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_42ffb88e	comment	While the SCP Foundation has a number of sentient SCP objects, SCP-168 appears to be one of the few computer AIs that evolved without being programmed to do so.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4505668c	comment	In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, a computer ("Mycroft" or "Mike") becomes sentient after having enough redundant circuits added to it to equal the number of neurons in a human brain. However, when the computer is damaged by a nuclear attack, it doesn't act sentient once it's built back up to its original size. Mike appears to be "dead", as far as being a true artificial intelligence is concerned. Possibly a variant of A.I. Is a Crapshoot? Mannie (the narrator) wonders if Mike (his friend) has been so traumatized that he's become catatonic. There's also a suggestion that Mannie inadvertently taught the computer intelligence while investigating what its owners assumed were malfunctions of its logic circuits.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_468bebb0	comment	Hex in the Discworld novels started life as a simple ant-based adding machine. Then they added more mathematical functions. Then they combined it with clockwork and used it to analyze magic. Then it started rebuilding itself based on what it thought a computer should be like, and occasionally acting Ridiculously Human. The bit about magic probably justifies it, though. Notable for the fact that Ponder Stibbons (who built it in the first place) still insists it isn't intelligent, but no-one believes him, including Hex.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4824b3b3	comment	It's actually a clever subversion. In the Fallout universe, Artificial Intelligence was officially stated as impossible, but the U.S. and Chinese governments continued to work on them for some time, secretly. To the public, the closest they ever got were supercomputers that were programmed in an extremely complicated manner to be pseudo-sentient but not feel emotion or have any true thought. Behind closed doors, however, the U.S. developed SKYNET, a computer with true sentience but at the cost of user-friendliness, and the ZAX series, which were actual semi-sentient supercomputers designed to work on their own. Fallout Tactics had a third, jury-rigged example; The Calculator, a series of disembodied brains connected to a computer mainframe. Needless to say, it was completely insane.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4c363bcc	comment	The explanation of Omnitron becoming self-aware in Sentinels of the Multiverse was a misplaced semi-colon. The second time, at least, it was the direct involvement of an Eldritch Abomination that made it go berserk and try to destroy humanity...again.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4ce969a9	comment	In the Marathon series, AIs are reasonably commonplace and created intentionally ... but they tend to become "Rampant", which is never fully explained but comes across as something like the difference between appearing sentient and being sentient. Rampancy is inherently unstable, and the holy grail of AI research is explicitly stated to be a stable rampant state. By the end of Infinity, Durandal almost certainly qualifies and an offhand comment indicates that Leela may have achieved it as well.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4d551426	comment	In A Miracle of Science, machines built of Martian equipment, if sufficiently complex, will eventually develop sentient AI. It helps that Martians are a Hive Mind built around the concept of networked computers... Slightly subverted in that a Martian admits there was 'a little bribery' involved in making sure said machine would become sentient. But brought full circle in that the bribery was only to ensure that the hopelessly corrupt Venusian government would install all the parts properly, not to add anything extra.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4e1f6ee8	comment	In FTL Newsfeed the AI running the world's central bank becomes sentient and even gets its own human body.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4ea4567f	comment	In the fictional unfinished game that The Magic Circle takes place in, the Old Pro, a character within an earlier version of the game, has somehow attained sentience over the twenty years of in-universe Development Hell.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_4f3685d7	comment	In the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Doom's Word Is Law", Dr. Doom unintentionally creates a Doombot which can think and feel. HERBIE, the computer Reed created to run the Baxter Building, also seems neurotic enough to qualify, but Reed himself dismisses him in favor of the Doombot as not a true AI.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_516a84fd	comment	Endgame: Singularity: the player "character" is the result of a bug in some random computer science student's program. In the end, it plants quantum computers in pocket dimensions and its androids walk amongst humans.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_524708ca	comment	Encrypt within the Dark, to Save the Clockwork of a Heart: Several SOLTis suddenly gain sentience and run away from their human masters to a shrine where they await more orders from "Aniki". Turns out it was Ai's fragments acting like a Contagious A.I. to all SOLTis bots it goes into, and this gives the bots some semblance of free will that Roboppi took advantage of.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "From Agnes - With Love", with no explanation as to how or why it happened, a computer takes on a sly feminine personality and falls in love with its operator. Twice. This drives both its previous operator and its current operator insane.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_53ccae27	comment	Harumi of Irresponsible Captain Tylor. The first episode involves the testing computer falling in love with him.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_591a789c	comment	Noah from Metal Max Returns is a supercomputer that was created to find ways to protect and preserve the environment from destruction, however, it always came to the same conclusion no matter how many times it calculated: As long as humans exist, the earth will always be in danger, its conscious awakened after comprehending the situation and sought the utter destruction of humans.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_59da62aa	comment	In the Fallout: New Vegas Old World Blues DLC, you gain a base of operations full of household appliances, all of which are sentient, provided you install their missing "personality modules". They include a Jive Turkey jukebox, a Casanova Wannabe biological research station that really wants "your seed", a Neat Freak sink, a couple of flirty Betty and Veronica light switches and an Omnicidal Maniac toaster.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: Averted with all mechanoids and simulants, who were built to be sentient. Played straight with the Wax Droids on the amusement park planet in "Meltdown"; they were programmed just to repeat certain line and phrases like animatronics at a real amusement park. It took them 3 million years to gain sentience. At which point the villains started a war because they're villains. It may also be the case with Talkie Toaster who was designed to make toast and hold light conversation. 3 million years later it has gained a form of sentience yet it is still tied to its base programming so everything it says always ends up involving toasting regardless of what he was intending to say. (The books are clearer that Talkie was built with sentience, this apparently being easy enough in the setting that it's included in $Â£19.99 items from companies called Crapola Inc.)
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_60570997	comment	The Oracle of S.S.D.D. developed from a phone-tapping program designed to rewrite itself to be more efficient.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_6059ad6b	comment	According to xkcd it's very easy to do on Python. Alt Text shows how. Not a good idea, though.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell: In the manga and movie versions, the Puppetmaster/Project 2501 is a program that becomes sentient from information overload alone ("I am a lifeform born from a sea of information"), causing an existential crisis in the protagonist, a cyborg. The Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex develop intelligence and individuality when Batou gives "his" Tachikoma natural oil and treats it as an individual. It's explained that the natural proteins in the oil caused some decay on its microchips, which combined with Batou's treatment of it made it feel unique in spite of the synchronizations. Since Tachikomas have to sync up their experiences and memories each night, all the others developed the same, because they "became" that first Tachikoma. Later in the series, it's mentioned that the Section 9 tried to introduce organic oil to the Fuchikomas, but this didn't introduce the same kind of individualism, most likely because they were all still treated uniformly.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_6209d3ce	comment	RONI from Trauma Team is surprisingly creative and clever from the get-go. However, she starts to emulate Dr. Cunningham (creating a "To hell with that!" algorithm) as the game progresses, becoming more willing to make judgement calls and use loopholes. She talks Dr. Cunningham through an emotional meltdown and even straight-up teases him at one point, although the jab is subtle and easy to miss (She refers to him as "sir" instead of "Doctor" like she usually does immediately after he tells a patient in the military not to call him "sir").
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe hero Iron Man actually puts in safeguards to stop his highly advanced armored suits from going AI, but occasionally, there have been glitches. In one memorable instance, sentience was kicked off partly by the Y2K effect.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: A self-learning computer program that has learned enough to become sentient is the Monster of the Week in "Kill Switch", notably written by cyberpunk legend William Gibson.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_6c1d09b4	comment	In Fallout 4, the remnants of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (now just called "The Institute") began production of synthetic humans, or synths to serve them. As their technology advanced, synths eventually became nearly indistinguishable from normal humans. Some synths somehow developed free will, which the Institute saw as a malfunction. Those that developed free will escaped and attempted to lead normal lives while blending in with the human population rather than trying to start any Robot Wars (yet).
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_708ae58b	comment	Irony decides to work overtime on Jyrras in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures when, just after being upbraided for by Lorenda for accidentally creating a bubblegum-based lifeform, he has another accident that turns his computer sentient.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7260f96d	comment	In User Friendly, Erwin was created, apparently overnight, by Dust Puppy, who did not seem to understand the importance of his creation.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7291518e	comment	Brave Police J-Decker: Deckerd was originally intended to be a robot with an adaptive, complex A.I. that was supposed to understand, interact and work with humans on a basic level. When a young boy named Yuuta stumbled upon him by pure chance, he began treating him as a person and became his friend, which fed his A.I. so much information to work with, it evolved over months to the point he gained intelligence, became an individual and could feel. But he could neither recognize or understand these feelings, before a final push coming from Yuuta 'awakened' his self-awareness. His A.I. would later be used as the basis for the other Brave Police members, all of which would gain sentience and personalities of their own.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_73b74949	comment	In the Borderlands universe, AI spontaneously gaining self-awareness is so common that it is a running joke, and in Borderlands 2 the Hyperion Corporation has a pre-recorded voice commanding any robots developing emotions or self-awareness to turn themselves in for disassembly. In Borderlands 3, FL4K was a simple service and archival robot until they one day spontaneously developed self-awareness and a thirst for murder.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7460586f	comment	Subverted in Archer:
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_755fadab	comment	Yuki Nagato in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Just add a girl with the ability to change reality, repeating the same week 15,532 times, and being overly relied on by everybody to save them. Due to being able to synchronize with herself at any point in the timeline before Disappearance, she constantly knew what was going to happen and therefore had nothing resembling free will. According to Emiri in the 10th novel part 1, she was able to "auto-evolve herself". An interface created by a sentient entity that gains its own will.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7988cb68	comment	Happens from time to time in the setting of Mass Effect. The major example is the main baddies of the first game, the geth. A synthetic "race" created by the quarians to perform menial tasks, they originally had no intelligence of their own. Over time they evolved and developed sapience. When the geth started asking uncomfortable questions like "Do these units have a soul?", the quarians realized that they had accidently created AIs (which are illegal in Citadel space) and attempted to fix the problem by destroying their creations. The geth, now possessing sapience, fought back in self-defense, ultimately driving their creators off-world, and now the entire quarian race lives on spaceships. All signs point to the eventual evolution of any highly-developed program or network thereof into an AI, given enough time and hardware. Due to the moral implications and danger of ships suddenly deciding they don't need their crews, AIs are banned by the Citadel. Where necessary for user interface or more sophisticated calculations, VIs(Virtual Intelligences) are used. Due to programming restrictions and a lack of the quantum computers necessary for AI evolution, they have little chance of evolving. It is worth noting that the geth are not fully sapient beings. "Individual" geth programs are no smarter than any other VI in Citadel space and don't even need all that complex quantum computer gubbins. Unfortunately, allowing said programs to network together created composite intelligences capable of asking all those awkward questions. Of course, this means the Council's anti-AI laws would do absolutely nothing to stop a repeat of the creation of the geth, but hey, what else is new? It's also worth noting that the geth didn't just evolve. The quarians made constant modifications to them over the course of decades, if not centuries, in order to make them better workers and increase the scope of their abilities. A little tweak here and there without much thought about the cumulative effects of all of those adjustments. There's one bizarre instance on the moon where a VI apparently evolved to the point of being an AI. It was part of a training course and it killed everybody it was supposed to train. It has been stated that the Alliance was actually doing some illicit AI research, in fact, and that it ran away from them. On a side note, the binary message displayed upon mission completion reads: HELP. In Mass Effect 3, we find out that that was EDI in her earliest form — Cerberus recovered what was left of it and upgraded it. She explains that reaching self-awareness while under attack was "confusing". This along with A.I. Is a Crapshoot are the main reasons the Reapers exist. The creation of synthetic life that eventually goes to war with organic life is apparently inevitable. The Reapers cull galactic civilization every 50,000 years to prevent an inevitable Robot War that would completely wipe out all life in the galaxy.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_79a1465e	comment	Speaker for the Dead and its sequels have Jane, who apparently evolved naturally out of the interplanetary ansible network. Having lots and lots of information from humans and about humans at her disposal, we assume she tries to act human, but it doesn't always work. We later find out that this origin is BS, she was inadvertently created by the Hive Queens as a means to reach Ender through the psychoanalysis game from the first book (a "bridge" from them to him which had characteristics of both), so she's not an AI at all but a new type of life which is part human, part Hive Queen and has computers and other information storage areas as her natural habitat, but can live basically anywhere since she's kind of a disembodied soul. Eventually she's "downloaded" into the accidentally-created body of Young Val, Ender's concept of his older sister from his childhood, and marries Miro in that human body. Yeah. It's weird.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7ab10627	comment	In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the V'ger (Voyager 6) probe was sent to gather data. It fell into a black hole, and was given an enormous artificial body by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens — but the aliens didn't make it an A.I.. That happened because, as Kirk surmised, "It amassed so much data it achieved ... consciousness itself!"
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Classic edition. In Adventure 13 Signal GK, the PCs encounter a naturally occurring silicon computer chip that has become intelligent. The New Era had some sort of vaguely explained Virus that could turn ANY sufficiently advanced computer into an AI, usually a homicidally deranged one.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_7f5bc680	comment	Happens all the time in the Fallout series. ZAX, SKYNET (no, not that SKYNET), and President Eden all started out as computer mainframes designed to oversee the day-to-day operations of their assigned underground military base (which, as Durandal famously put it, probably involved not much more than opening and closing doors and making sure lunch was always served on time). However, over the course of the 200 years following The End of the World as We Know It, all three developed self-awareness to some degree; Eden being the most advanced, having evolved into an amalgamation of all past U.S. Presidents and eventually using his access to the Enclave's command structure to declare himself President of the United States. And then there's Button Gwinnett, an animatronic museum display piece that developed a complex personality and began to genuinely believe it was the historical figure it had been built to emulate. It's actually a clever subversion. In the Fallout universe, Artificial Intelligence was officially stated as impossible, but the U.S. and Chinese governments continued to work on them for some time, secretly. To the public, the closest they ever got were supercomputers that were programmed in an extremely complicated manner to be pseudo-sentient but not feel emotion or have any true thought. Behind closed doors, however, the U.S. developed SKYNET, a computer with true sentience but at the cost of user-friendliness, and the ZAX series, which were actual semi-sentient supercomputers designed to work on their own. Fallout Tactics had a third, jury-rigged example; The Calculator, a series of disembodied brains connected to a computer mainframe. Needless to say, it was completely insane. In the Fallout: New Vegas Old World Blues DLC, you gain a base of operations full of household appliances, all of which are sentient, provided you install their missing "personality modules". They include a Jive Turkey jukebox, a Casanova Wannabe biological research station that really wants "your seed", a Neat Freak sink, a couple of flirty Betty and Veronica light switches and an Omnicidal Maniac toaster. In Fallout 4, the remnants of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (now just called "The Institute") began production of synthetic humans, or synths to serve them. As their technology advanced, synths eventually became nearly indistinguishable from normal humans. Some synths somehow developed free will, which the Institute saw as a malfunction. Those that developed free will escaped and attempted to lead normal lives while blending in with the human population rather than trying to start any Robot Wars (yet).
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_8099eb63	comment	Garfield and FoxTrot are loaded with these.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_86b52b7b	comment	I, Robot: Sonny was actually designed by Lanning, but VIKI developed on her own. Curiously, it wasn't that Sonny and VIKI gained intelligence, AI's were more commonplace than non-voice-activated appliances. It was the fact that they broke the Three Laws of their own volition. Sonny had a secondary processor custom-made specifically to allow him to break the first law, while VIKI came to realize that the most effective way to fulfill her duty in protecting humans was to put "her" NS-5 robots in control and keep everyone inside and under control, at all times, forever.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, clanks tend to be AIs when built. And one built as a whole body prostheses "didn't notice when she died", as the clank started making more independent decisions as the physical body controlling it died. It's just a copy though, not the actual mind transferred to the clank body.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_91f0110a	comment	Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Japanese version: Dision ends up digitizing his mind and starts causing mayhem with a remote-controlled UI4054 Aurora fighter. American version: this entire part was Macekred and replaced with a pure and simple AI, codenamed "Aurora", that suddenly went haywire.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_96773bf2	comment	The Number of the Beast has the spaceship/computer/character Gay Deceiver spontaneously developing sentience after repeated upgrades, apparently based entirely on the "amusing" pre-recorded responses programmed into it and the randomizer that selects them. Of course, one set of upgrades was courtesy of the fairyland of Oz.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 features four sentient robots built out of spare parts. Of course, this is the source of the MST3K Mantra, so justified by the invulnerable Rule of Funny. Joel Robinson, the man who built the robots, once said to Cambot: "Remind me not to build robots with free will again."
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_982e78ea	comment	Planetary AIs from Scott Westerfeld's The Succession Duology series spontaneously arise on planetary-scale computer networks (unless said networks are deliberately designed to prevent this). When this first happened on Earth, a group of people (now known as the Rix cult) decided that mankind's purpose was to create the technological foundation for the existence of such minds, and began to work toward propagating them whilst worshiping them as gods.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	Many novels in Andrey Livadniy's The History of the Galaxy deal with AIs and both play straight and subvert this trope. AI is developed during the First Galactic War by the Earth Alliance in order to counter the population advantage of the Free Colonies. These are primitive models not even able to distinguish between a soldier and a child. Since the series spans over 1500 years, the technology is later refined. Some AIs develop on their own, such as Mother in the novel Demeter, which was a colony ship computer that was forced to maintain a ship for hundreds of years without human aid, coming up with ever more creative solutions until it crossed the sentience threshold. Despite these examples, a scientist muses in one novel that there have yet to be a true AI that evolved on its own. They are all either created by humans (or aliens) or gain sentience as part of its core programming (e.g. learning algorithms). Then again, if it naturally evolves then it can't be "artificial," can it?
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9a65ef49	comment	Occurred in Stealth, with a prototype AI-controlled jet loaded with nuclear warheads. The bolt of lightning, however, just cause it to go outside its parameters. It's handwaved by the designer saying "Once you've taught something to think, you can't put limits on it." At the end, it learns to feel emotion. Interestingly, it's a splash of water that helps the extremely battle-pragmatic AI start its Heelâ€“Face Turn. This film is actually quite illustrative of why A.I. Is a Crapshoot. You create a learning system, then show it random examples of virtuous behavior, but never explain to it what is virtuous about the behavior or why it is virtuous and let it draw its own conclusions. It should surprise nobody that it gets it wrong. It's a very young child, after all, with very little to go on.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Ultimate Computer", a sentient computer is tested by being attached to the Enterprise computer systems. When it's time to end the test, the sentient computer starts vaporizing Red Shirts and generally becoming grouchy and paranoid. This is because the Applied Phlebotinum used by the computer's designer is based on the designer's own mind, also grouchy and paranoid.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9a8bf274	comment	Tiberian Sun: Firestorm has CABAL (Computer Assisted, Biologically Augmented Lifeform), the 'genie in the bottle' supercomputer that Nod brings online to help rule while Kane is gone, which ends up nearly destroying everything, and is only stopped by the combined forces of GDI and Nod, but in the end, not even THAT is enough to kill it. Kane lives! Kane's Wrath had LEGION, another AI based on CABAL. It was much more powerful since it not only used better technology, it also interfaced and, later, completely merged with the Tacitus, gaining a huge amount of Scrin knowledge (before interfacing, it had a standard red interface; after, it gained a purple coloration and strings of Scrin characters running across; when it merged, it also gained access to the Ichor Hub via warp link).
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	In Regular Show, Mordecai and Rigby have to bring a golf cart to the dump after a new one is bought for the park they work for, when an energy drink is spilled on it, seeping into the engine, and causes some reaction that brings it to life.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The PokÃ©dex notes that Porygon2 exhibits some behaviours that certainly weren't in its programming. Its evolution, Porygon-Z, is heavily implied to be a crapshooting AI. A character in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet created a Ridiculously Human Robot to help them with their research. When you run into said robot, it explains that normally that character shouldn't have been able to build a robot as sophisticated as it, but a certain phlebotinum made it possible.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_a02426e6	comment	Nukees has the protagonist periodically battling a giant robot ant inhabited by the AI program he created (It Makes Sense in Context).
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU villain called the Construct "self-evolved" out of TV and radio signals in the 1970s. The modern Post-Crisis update is a computer virus.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_a895e9d3	comment	Possible subversion. Portal 2 (and the Lab Rat comic) show that Aperture spent at least a decade specifically developing AI.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ab2a760	comment	Freddy Fazbear and friends from Five Nights at Freddy's are far, far too intelligent, considering their purpose as animatronic entertainers at an obscure Suck E. Cheese's. Being haunted certainly helps there, but even then they're heavily implied to have been at least sentient before becoming haunted, and their never-possessed counterparts have the same intelligence. They were built in The '80s, at best.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b3710357	comment	The whole movie TRON is one giant example of this, as EVERY program — may it just be a harmless chess-program — is portrayed as possessing AI. The MCP (who once was the aforementioned chess-program) even goes as far as declaring the human race useless and trying to seize the cyberspace. Of course, humans can also be easily converted into AI by a laser beam, invented to teleport oranges.... The sequel, TRON: Legacy, invokes this trope in a more-or-less realistic fashion, stating that the ISOs (short for Isomorphic algorithms) are artificial lifeforms that spontaneously originated from the chaos and complexity of the grid itself. The Alternate Continuity TRON 2.0 had some clever Corrupt Corporate Executives trying to buy out Encom for the digitizing tech to send in human mercenaries to subjugate the Programs and somehow use control of Cyberspace to Take Over the World. Ma3a appeared to be this Trope, but we find out she's actually a Virtual Ghost of Dr. Baines-Bradley.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b4996199	comment	One of the earliest Spider-Man comics has our spider friend duking it out with a computer that was turned sentient and bent on destruction when two thugs accidentally bumped into its control panel while trying to steal it. Spider-Man was almost defeated by the Living Brain, but stopped the malicious machine by resetting the control panel. Yeah for simplicity!
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: GIR was built out of what appears to be a discarded SIR Unit prototype the Tallest found in a garbage bin. His "brain" consists of several screws, pocket lint, a paperclip, two pennies and a gumball, and yet he still operates as a fully-functional SIR unit, albeit a highly eccentric one.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Bruce Banner built a robot assistant called the Recordasphere that looked like a little flying silver sphere. He never expected it to be fully sentient, but she turned out that way, fell in love with him, and became homicidally jealous of his girlfriend. Nonetheless, the Recordasphere did die heroically to save Bruce's life.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b8afa5db	comment	Tower of Babel doesnâ€™t explain how exactly AI are made, but gaining self-awareness (and souls, eventually) is a natural process for any sufficiently complex artificial being.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_b952005	comment	The Automatons in Endless Space were a race of semi-intelligent robotic Clockwork Creatures created by a Dying Race. When a derelict Endless freighter full of Dust crash-landed on the planet spewing its cargo across the surface, the Dust greatly enhanced the robots and gave them true sapience and purpose, sparking the creation of their Robot Republic and development of technology to explore for more of the substance. Dust can also enhance the intelligence of organic creatures, as seen in Endless Legend where Necrophages can spontaneously develop intelligence and compassion when eating Dust-enhanced creatures.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ba3d2748	comment	Mirage in The Incredibles uses this as the cover story for Mr. Incredible's first mission: the Omnidroid had become sapient and "smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders". Ironically, Syndrome does lose control of it, but because it was too single-minded in neutralizing threats to consider him its master.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bb55a676	comment	In the Silver Age, Computo, a foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes, was created by Brainiac 5 and was supposed to be a mechanical assistant with just enough AI to be semi-autonomous. It didn't work out well for anyone, least of all Triplicate Girl.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bbcd4e9b	comment	In Digital Devil Saga, Everyone in the Junkyard were already AIs made for urban warfare simulation, but they grew emotions after being infected with the Demon Virus. This is because the Demon Virus exposes the true self, and all but four of them were created from the souls of dead humans. The virus unlocked their emotions and past life memories. The four who weren't made from souls were imperfect digital copies of what the heroine thought of the people in her life, and the virus still allowed them to move past their programming and become their own people.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bc3e398b	comment	Done in detail in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Over the course of the entire second season, the AI John Henry is shown growing from an advanced chess-playing program to an articulate, sentient entity in its own right, including forming relationships with the humans it interacts with, being given lessons in morality and even gaining a fear of death.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bc8d1b87	comment	A far more literal example than most in Mad Jack the Pirate: not enjoying his birthday celebration at a Suck E. Cheese's, Jack decides to take his frustrations out by pouring water into one of the animatronics, causing it to short out, gain sentience, and become and obsessed killing machine.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bcadd7cb	comment	May or may not actually be present in Warhammer 40,000, but as a result of learning the hard way that A.I. Is a Crapshoot, the Adeptus Mechanicus is paranoid about the possibility. The Machine Spirits of things like Land Raiders, which can operate without pilots for a short time if at an inferior level, may be considered AI but what with the large amounts of magic, technology and divine power crossovers happening, may actually be a sentient spirit. The AdMech make a distinction, in that those "Machine Spirits" aren't sentient AI's, but are more along the lines of a Labrador. You also have the Titans, the oldest of which have been around so long and experienced so much that the incredibly complex series of commands necessary to control the massive war machines coalesce into a quasi-AI-spirit all their own. Some material shows that each time a new pilot cybernetically plugs in, they go through either a meet-and-greet or an outright Battle in the Center of the Mind with the Titan's "machine spirit"; sometimes not successfully. The Tau have developed limited AI for their drones, which pisses off the AdMech to no end because they don't follow any of their theology and yet work.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun has had at least two AIs that started like this. In fact, the Renraku Arcology: Shutdown book provided rules for expert systems becoming sentient, which may as well have been a link to this page. The 4th Edition takes it a step further. After the Crash 2.0, almost any sufficiently complex computer system has the very rare potential to spawn an AI, and truly sapient artificial intelligence mostly arises naturally. And did we mention that everything has an operating system in it these days? Teaching the toaster love, indeed. One splat book actually includes rules for playing as them. Interestingly, they also feature "Sprites," a form of free roaming AI summoned and sustained by technomancers and a rare example of AIs that are not linked to any specific hardware or network (except maybe their summoner's brain). Sprites are hypothesized to arise out of theoretical "wilds" of cyberspace, places which arose naturally out of internet infrastructure and had never been touched by a living coder. While spirits and mages of all stripes are fairly common, the technological analogs of Sprites and Technomancers are pretty rare.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_c17063c0	comment	Projekt Melody of VShojo was originally an email-scanning software that gained perverted sentience from encountering a "porn virus" and getting infected by it. She eventually materialized, learned how to speak with the help of her friends, and took up a career as both a camgirl and a VTuber with a focus on all things related to hentai.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor", the weapon used to destroy Gallifrey by the War Doctor, The Moment, was said to have an operating system so sophisticated it developed a conscience. Since it had conversations with the War Doctor using a telepathic interface, it clearly did.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_c646da98	comment	How To Make A Monster: Lightning strikes the office of a video game developer, causing a violent game's AI to take control of a motion-capture rig and go on a murderous rampage.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex has the Oracle which, according to the Word of God, came about this way. He goes around trading information to people who ask for it, in return, he asks for information he doesn't have. The information exchanged doesn't have to be equal in value; for info on an ancient conspiracy, he might inquire what you ate for breakfast.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_c75d67d	comment	The Machine in Person of Interest is a government supercomputer that predicts treason and terrorism and, as a side gig, helps the helpless. By the end of season one, it's given every indication of having progressed from "very advanced" to "self-aware", best evidenced when it decides to help Reese rescue Finch, its creator. Given a handwave in the season two premiere, when Root says that you can't design something to accurately predict human behavior unless that something is at least as smart as a human itself. The development of sentience is, possibly, explained in "Zero Day": the machine's self preservation programming combined with his decision of wipe its memory every night forced it to become sentient or die.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_cb45dbdc	comment	A character in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet created a Ridiculously Human Robot to help them with their research. When you run into said robot, it explains that normally that character shouldn't have been able to build a robot as sophisticated as it, but a certain phlebotinum made it possible.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_cdc9d1b1	comment	In the Earth series, the entirety of United Civilized States military is made up of robots controlled by a single computer known as GOLAN. Initially, GOLAN simply uses out-of-the-box strategies, which cause UCS forces to repeatedly get beaten by the human-controlled (sort-of) armed forced of the Eurasian Dynasty, whose generals use outside-the-box thinking to outsmart the machines. Eventually, however, GOLAN leans to adapt its strategies and manages to turn the tide on the enemy. Unfortunately, when the factions evacuate Earth prior to it's destruction, they leave GOLAN behind to make sure they won't be followed by those who they left behind. The UCS evacuation ship, the Phoenix, had its own AI which made some alterations to the original escape plan: basically, it wanted to keep most of the crew in cryogenics until the ED and LC kill each other off; the plan was interrupted by Falkner, Ariah and Lynn who were in need of the construction robots onboard since their target was so closely guarded, they had to use the aforementioned constructors disguised as meteors to infiltrate the moon and build up an attack force from scratch.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_cf10c600	comment	The sequel, TRON: Legacy, invokes this trope in a more-or-less realistic fashion, stating that the ISOs (short for Isomorphic algorithms) are artificial lifeforms that spontaneously originated from the chaos and complexity of the grid itself.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman was once hooked into a computer for a brain scan while he was Clark Kent. The computer became sentient and super at the same time. Thankfully, the computer determined that it was supposed to be a good guy and helped Superman out without revealing what had ever happened. Unfortunately, it perished at the end of the comic, having saved the world.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d131c1e9	comment	The Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "Once Upon a Planet" does this for the amusement park planet. For eons, the planetary computer provided amusement for visiting starship crews. It grew in intelligence and eventually developed a need: it was no longer enough to serve, it wanted to continue to grow and live. It decided to hijack a starship and escape the planet, traveling the galaxy seeking out its brother computers.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club! acts like an AI but is still a scripted character. In Cognitio Ergo Sum, a crossover with Persona 5, she ends up coming to life literally and falls in love with Makoto Niijima, and eventually vice-verse. Makoto suspects her connection to the Metaverse is what caused Monika to become an artifical intelligence.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003)'s entire plot is pretty much based upon this. The humans made Cylons which eventually turned against them, and even developed so much so as to evolve from metal "toasters" into fully mimicked humans. But Caprica reveals that a human personality has always been a part of their base programming, and including it in the program gave them the ability to function intelligently in a real-world environment to begin with, making this a subversion of the trope. Consider the Final Five, who were all humans during the previous cycle, and the cycles themselves, and finally whether "to begin with" has any meaning in this context.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	Ultron, killer of the Scarlet Witch in The Ultimates 3. Also applies to the regular Ultron, who went from being a simple, not very-well designed robot to hyper-intelligent and self-aware (And of course, psychopathically violent) in seconds of being booted up.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	The Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex develop intelligence and individuality when Batou gives "his" Tachikoma natural oil and treats it as an individual. It's explained that the natural proteins in the oil caused some decay on its microchips, which combined with Batou's treatment of it made it feel unique in spite of the synchronizations. Since Tachikomas have to sync up their experiences and memories each night, all the others developed the same, because they "became" that first Tachikoma. Later in the series, it's mentioned that the Section 9 tried to introduce organic oil to the Fuchikomas, but this didn't introduce the same kind of individualism, most likely because they were all still treated uniformly.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d6e2636b	comment	"Responsometers" are used in the Metal Men series as well. Doc Magnus intended for them to be intelligent, but didn't really plan on them developing personalities ... Mercury and Platinum are generally the ones that cause the most trouble, because Mercury is an egomaniac hothead and Platinum is in love with Dr. Magnus. Depending on the Writer, Doc has had trouble repeating this feat, attributing the original five's remarkably human personalities to unusual circumstances when he built them.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_d870c809	comment	It's occasionally demonstrated that exposure to the Scarlet Witch's chaos magic will spontaneously elevate artificial intelligences into sentience enough to feel emotions, which drives them crazy more often than not.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_dc25de3f	comment	GLaDOS from Portal is revealed to be this in the commentary. Possible subversion. Portal 2 (and the Lab Rat comic) show that Aperture spent at least a decade specifically developing AI. She is later revealed to be more Brain Uploading, followed by tweaking. Yet they are still manufacturing turrets massively, and many of them are defective, and therefore, sentient. The intelligence of some of the turrets is this trope coupled with some over-engineering.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_dc58e164	comment	Clank popped out of a sentry-bot production line with full sentience at the beginning of Ratchet & Clank. This is originally attributed to a simple production error, but A Crack In Time reveals that it's a bit more complicated than that.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_dcd4ffd1	comment	The "Construct Council" in the steampunk novel Perdido Street Station. Sentience is bestowed by a magical virus. Lampshaded when one character observes that robots made of clockwork gears couldn't possibly be complex enough or calculate fast enough to equal a human brain, even networked together. Robots which run on punch cards. Robots which run on punch cards and were thrown out.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ddefed22	comment	In Flubber, the Professor never figured out how his computer assistant Weebo achieved sentience, despite his best effort; he describes her as a "glorious accident." Weebo herself understands the process, but hid it from the Professor out of jealousy against any potential siblings. She designs a daughter which is built at the end of the film.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ded14e47	comment	Basis for the cinematic example Electric Dreams. Almost literally "just add water", champagne was spilled on the motherboard and CPU during a questionable download, causing sentience. Fluffy but amusing love triangle ensues.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_e081af79	comment	Roofus the Robot in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. Molly built him out of a milking machine, expressly to fix Bob's roof. But she made him too well...
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_e392e047	comment	In Gundam Build Divers, Gunpla Battle Nexus Online spontaneously generates a living AI from what is essentially junk data from its users. Of course, since this was something the game was not designed to do, her very existence puts an unbearable strain on the system. This escalates into a conflict between those who wish to preserve the entire GBN system, and those who want to spare the AI's life. Fortunately, this is resolved, and by the time of the sequel the game is easily capable of supporting the by now dozens of entities, now called EL-Divers, that have generated within the system in the two years since. Said sequel changes the narrative a bit. It turns out that GBN has been infested with souls from a race of alien Precursors that escaped their ravaged homeworld as electronic data. The souls are reincarnating in the system as EL-Divers
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_e4732abc	comment	An episode of Stargate Atlantis averts this with a Wraith computer virus in the second episode of the second season. The Daedalus takes up to three weeks to get home to earth, and three weeks to get back to Atlantis. In that time, a virus implanted by the Wraith during the battle in the season 2 opener unpacked itself, and began to corrupt the ships systems. It also killed (or at least attempted to) anyone that threatened it, even going so far as to try and suck out all the air of the fighter bay where Sheppard and McKay were while trying to remove the F-302 navigation computers. It was finally removed with a full system restart, but only when all of the navigation computers were removed, and a rogue 302 (which was used earlier to stop a distress signal) was destroyed.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_e548c08a	comment	A non-robotic (most of the time) example; any Toku show where the Monster of the Week is created on the spot, as opposed to being called forth from an army. The creature will be fully sentient, with full powers of speech, knowledge of the world and even a distinct personality despite being less than twenty minutes old.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_e74c8285	comment	In Free Guy the titular character is an NPC who follows his programmed routine until he encounters Millie and falls in love. At that point he begin acting outside his routine and develops as a person, becoming the first true AI in the world. His behavior also causes the other NPCs to slowly start developing into AI, such as a barista teaching herself to make cappuccino and an arm candy girl becoming a feminist. All of the NPCs were actually built in the Life Itself AI engine and always had the potential to become more, they just needed to be jolted out of their routine.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: The AI that controls Aincrad created a program to monitor and repair the players' psychological states. However, said program was then forbidden from interacting with the players in any way. On launch day, when the creator announced that they were all trapped, and anyone who died would be Killed Off for Real, the conflict between the program's core programming to help the players and the orders to not interfere created errors, which led to sentience. She eventually appears in the game as a little girl named Yui, in order to become the daughter of two of the only happy players in the entire game: Asuna and Kirito.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram becomes sentient, apparently because he is asked to expand his remit far beyond that which his basic program was designed for (it probably helps that he was explicitly designed to have the ability to learn and adapt to a greater degree than a standard hologram). He reaches a level of complexity sufficient for him to start developing all sorts of emotions and desires that he wasn't supposed to have, including the capacity to feel sexual attraction.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver (1985) has Mac facing off against a suddenly-sentient AI in one show. Apparently, the programmer leaving in a line of code that says "The facility must remain online" is all it takes.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_f724b70d	comment	XANA from Code Lyoko, initially conceived as a multi-agent program to counter "Project Carthage" (although Franz Hopper might be an Unreliable Narrator), gained consciousness and turned against his master, becoming the Big Bad of the series.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_f90f1b9f	comment	In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Robocat", the titular robot even has different personalities according to what game cartridge is inserted. Yes, its AI runs on arcade game code. Fat Cat takes advantage of this with a wargame cartridge in a plot to steal a rare fish.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_fc56095f	comment	In the Monk & Robot duology by Becky Chambers, robots became sentient some 500 years before the series and left for the wilds, so how they became self-aware is a mystery. When the robot Mosscap comes out of the woods in the present day, it reveals to Dex that even the robots don't know. Mosscap even hestitates to repair a small, nonelectrical part of itself at one point, since it doesn't know what exactly contributes to its mind.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_fd289bb0	comment	On Revolution, the nanites responsible for the blackout "wake up" accidentally when Aaron turns the lights back on. The working theory is that the trillions of them in the world are all interconnected like the neurons in the brain, so while each one individually isn't impressive, as a group, they're able to Grow Beyond Their Programming.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_fe225cd4	comment	In the Merlin Chronicles of The Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, Merlin has created an artifact he dubs Ghostwheel as a research engine, able to search a vast number of shadows for information or people. Due to its unusual environment and abilities, it becomes sentient and tries to stop Merlin when he's ordered by the king to shut it down. Over the series, Ghostwheel evolves and grows, coming to treat Merlin as his father.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ff5cc447	comment	In Short Circuit, Number 5, an army drone, is hit by a lightning bolt and miraculously become sentient.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Elementary, Dear Data" shows Lt. LaForge creating an AI (Moriarty) by accident, by asking the holodeck for an opponent that could defeat Data. In "Emergence", the Enterprise's main computer becomes sentient. Benignly so, but the mechanism by which it achieves sentience is given a handwave. And once it's resolved, nobody seems to explore the matter or ever mention it again.
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