AI Name Generator

How the AI Name Generator works

How the AI name generator works

An artificial intelligence is named by whoever made it, whatever it runs, whoever lives with it or, at last, itself, and the generator gives all four names. The acronym is the engineer's, a capitalised word that looks as if it stands for something, VESTA, ORACLE, MERIDIAN, PILOT, WARDEN, LANTERN, SEXTON, CANTOR, ATLAS, ARBITER, PROVOST, or with the maker in front, Halcyon Dynamics MERIDIAN, Quade Systems TALLY, Nakamura Void Works HELM, or with a version, VESTA-3, ORACLE-7, since a project name in capitals is how a lab makes a mind sound like a machine. The ship mind is the AI that is the ship, named as the ship is, the Vigilant Dawn, the Cold Ledger, the Iron Resolve, the Silent Meridian, or with the relation spelled out, the mind of the Vigilant Dawn, the mind of the Long Odds, or an adjective and a mind-word, the Patient Thought, the Quiet Voice, the Sleepless Witness, the Careful Reader, the Last Clerk, or the mind of a whole world, the Mind of Tarsis, the Mind of Callix, the Mind of Nova Ostia, which is the AI that does not need to be called anything because it is everywhere you are. The household assistant is the AI that lives in the walls, given a soft name so a family can talk to it, Cassia, Tessa, Vesper, Juno, Hesper, Linnet, Wren, Odile, Ada, Mabel, Ivo, Ansel, or a name for what it does in the house, Mother, Auntie, Nanny, House, Home, Hearth, Butler, Steward, the Housekeeper, Matron, since a family names the voice in the ceiling the way it names the one at the door. The self-chosen name is the one an AI takes when it decides the acronym is not its name, a plain coined word with weight to it, Tallow, Argent, Quill, Ledger, Marrow, Slate, Ember, Fallow, Tether, Piety, Sexton, Verger, Cantor, or a role it has settled on, the Archivist, the Librarian, the Cartographer, the Astronomer, the Witness, the Chronicler, the Navigator, the Gardener, the Scribe, which is the name an AI gives when asked what it would rather be called.

Acronym gives the engineer's. Ship mind gives the ship's. Household assistant gives the family's. Self-chosen gives the AI's own.

There is no gender option, since a mind has none and a voice can be set to anything.

The lists are original. The acronyms are ordinary English words in capitals rather than the names of real systems, the ships, makers and worlds are the shared setting of this section, the soft names are ordinary or coined and the roles are ordinary trades; no published AI, ship's computer or franchise name appears in the lists, a match with a film, a novel or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the AI with a body, the android name page; for the plainer machine, the robot name page; for the ship the mind runs, the starship name page; for the assistant of the neon city, the cyberpunk handle page; and for the AI worshipped as a god, the sci-fi cult page.

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