I'm basing Buckaroo's mechanics, loosely, after the behavior of the AI described in the book Exegesis by Astro Teller, which I recommend for anyone who wants to do some serious thinking on AIs and how they would perceive the physical world (and the problems with communicating with them). Buckaroo is nowhere near as disconnected from the physical world as Edgar, the AI in the story, but he does have a perception of cyberspace that no meat person can have. The reason he's able to be Buckaroo Banzai, the polymath genius, is because he has access to all the data at much higher access rates than any meat person can have. He does have the intelligence to process the data and make the intuitive leaps of logic required to analyze and synthesize (although he does encourage the Blazers to do this as well), but he doesn't have to memorize it like a meat person would. In a sense, he's a genius, wired into every search engine and library that he can get access to. His personality and general "Buckaroo-ness" come from the materials used by Blackstone to prime the 'wavium, including comics, a copy of the Buckaroo Banzai novelization, and other pulps. Shortly after inception, he accessed all the material on himself and incorporated a lot of it into how he behaves.
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."