Quote:Well, it would be rather silly to build robot bodies that look like fictional characters and then not try to put the matching personalities in them... But that only applies to Ryoko, Miyu, Catty, Sora, Yayoi, Kohran, Yoriko, Kasumi, and Greenpeace. (And none of them are exact matches for their templates, although Kohran comes close.)
They made the AIs intentionally? I was of the opinion that they just popped up.
Many but not all of the non-android AIs did "just pop up," though. The earliest ones (such as Trigon) were surprises, but after a while, the emergence of an AI in the vehicle you just handwaved (such as Avril) became expected.
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
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the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012