AI

An AI, or Artificial Intelligence, literally refers to a computer or software application capable of logical deduction and basic reasoning. Many computer games and Internet search systems employ rudimentary AI routines to govern behavior in entities not controlled by the player or for streamlining search priorities and categorizations.

However, in colloquial parlance, Artificial Intelligence refers to a computer that is "self-aware" - it is capable of not only logical deduction and reasoning, but knows of its own existence, the possibility of its own mortality (and immortality), and possesses creativity, desire, and, in many cases, emotion.

The Fallout universe contains many of these more fictionalized AIs: ZAX, ACE, and the Calculator are all examples of fictionalized AIs.