1. Arthur: An artistically inclined AI built by an eccentric millionaire and left to rot on a slowly disintegrating space station, Arthur is a fairly important part of Presto Studio's Journeyman Project 2 and now 3(tm). He didn't have much to do until Agent 5 (Gage Blackwood) of the Temporal Protectorate was framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to send an earlier self (time travel gets complicated) to pick up the evidence needed to free him, while he stood trial. Arthur's space station had been raided by the true criminal behind this trans-temporal heist and Agent 5 eventually persuaded him to help out. Thus Arthur, with his vast knowledge of history is a handy fellow to have along when your skipping through history the way most people use buses. That brings up another one of Arthur's characteristics in that he has a problem with metaphor and is still working on some apects of his personality. All in all a nifty AI.
5. Meta: Commander Tom Cool's Artificial Intelligence Simulation code named Meta, is a major character in his recent book "Infectress". The villainess of the book and title character needs an artificial intelligence to successfully engineer a super virus named New Age Dawn which will kill 98.9% of the human race, some cold huh? Cool's excellent portrayal of a reasoning psychotic who makes Ma Bates look like Miss Mary Sunshine does some serious damage to a number of innocent and not so innocent people before being brought down by ex-FBI agent
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