Talk:Artificial Intelligence

Shell People
Where do Anne McCaffrey's shell people fit into all this? They have a human body, but it is held completely inaccessible inside a shell. They are then connected to a ship or a space station or a company/building with a huge administration. They are still recognized as individuals with wages, rights, personality, etc, but they really function very similarly to an AI--able to do thousands of calculations per second, direct interface with the machinery they are wired to, etc. They don't really seem to fit as an AI or a cyborg. (Speaking of cyborgs they should get a mention somewhere.)