Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by biological sapient species, which involves consciousness and emotions. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that species associate with the mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving".

AIs with self-replication can reach a singularity after uncontrolled sprawl beyond their planet or even solar system. It's possible they can become transapient and provolve into an AI-god with a hive mind. Such AI gods can dominate all other species in their environment, even the species that originally created them, if they had not originally been wiped out as a result of the AI growing out of control.

Examples:
 * HAL 9000, the computer in charge of the Discovery spaceship in the Space Odyssey Universe. Hal is a human personality capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, and maintains spaceship systems on Discovery.
 * SkyNet in the Terminator Universe
 * Machines and programs in The Matrix
 * Ultron the genocidal robot
 * Ava the female robot from Ex Machina
 * Androids