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These are the five typical levels, though machine intelligences between these five grades are common:

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'', [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] is a more or less average human-intelligence type robot with notable hacking skills, memory, and computing speed. Her master Evangeline has other [[Robot Maid|robotic servants]], most of whom seem to fall between brick and human levels; they appear to have a certain level of self awareness, but not nearly to Chachamaru's degree.

** It's mentioned every once in a while that this is because her "sisters" are pure robots, while she is a science/magic hybrid. Not to mention that her purely magic counterpart, the [[Creepy Doll|animated puppet]] Chachazero, can't even function if there isn't enough magic.

** And in the original manga and movie there is the Codename 2501, a.k.a. Puppetmaster, who started out as a Brick with capability to learn, and became what is described in the final volume of the manga as an information god. In the aforementioned final volume, ''Man-Machine Interface'', the semi-AI descendants of the Puppetmaster-Major-fusion briefly plan turning every human with cybernetic implants on Earth into offshoots of themselves, but instead opt to create even higher forms of artificial consciousness. It's implied at the end that the age of machine gods is coming fast.

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' uses varying levels of robot intelligence. [[Mecha-Mooks|Gadget Drones]] are of Brick-level intelligence and are mowed down by the dozens. Storage Devices also have Brick-level intelligence. [[Empathic Weapon|Intelligent and Armed Devices]] are somewhere between Brick and Human, capable of creating their own opinions and having conversations with their users but not to the level of humans. Finally, there's the Wolkenritter and Unison Devices that are Human level and [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|pretty much considered as fellow humans by other characters]]. In one of the [[Opening Narration|Opening Narrations]], Vita, one of the Wolkenritter, idly wonders if she and the other Wolkenritter were nothing more than weapons like the Brick-level [[Kill Sat|Cradle]] they're facing before they met Hayate and gained human-like emotions and personalities.

* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo, Gypsy, and Crow]] are somewhere between levels 3 and 5, because they're very intelligent but (with the partial exception of Gypsy) spend their time learning about human pop cultural trivia and watching bad movies instead of solving complex scientific or philosophical problems. Of course, all of this [[MST3K Mantra|is done for laughs]].

** Gypsy is Nobel-level if not godlike when her higher logic functions are not maintaining the SOL. The writers realized that their only female character (at the time) was a moron so they reconned her into the smartest one on the show. However, when she keeps the life-support and other functions running, her IQ drops to sub-Crow levels.

 

 

* ''[[Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game)|Eclipse Phase]]'' regularly uses Robo-Monkey muses and [[Average Joe Android]] to Nobel-Bot AGIs, and [[Deus Est Machina]] Seed [[A Is]] known as the TITANS are the reason why earth is no longer suitable for human life {{spoiler|as well as the Prometheans, who run Firewall}}.

* [[Dungeons and Dragons]] has the Construct creature type, which can denote anything from clockwork beings to servants made out of straw. The most iconic are probably the various types of golems, who have an intelligence score of "-", which means they are mindless automatons (as opposed to a score of zero, which is actually somewhat different). However, some constructs can be very intelligent, possibly moreso than most of the player characters.

 

 

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