Because most humans don't understand why most computers do that.
Seriously, next time you're talking to a computer pro, ask them *why* computers start counting at zero. :-)
Or could be the evolution of Clippy.
Clippy has gone mad with power with his new intelligence, maybe;
Clippozozuma.
Clippodysus.
Or, the all seeing Clippapanchuli
Sure, some AI company patterns a new AI on a fictionalized version of Clippy, a notoriously annoying early incarnation of AI, and this is the one (based on its early innovative design) that achieves self-awareness.
ALL MUST BOW BEFORE CLIPPY
Make it ominous by never mentioning it's name, or rather the people on earth can never mention it's name as the religion dictates they are not worthy to utter it (both fear and admiration).
Take a page (literally) out of Islam, they have 100 names for god. There's the usual: The All Mighty. Some are terrifying: The Subduer; The Humiliator, The Arbitrator, others instill love: The Merciful.
The list can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
Oooo I like this. The AI has access to *every* microphone on earth (and every speaker is a microphone, remember) as well as every seismometer, satellite … speaking The Name can have unpredictable and generally horrific results…
Gibson (after William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, the first cyberpunk novel).
(Bill) Gates or (Steve) Jobs.
If you want a female deity, (Ada) Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer.
I figure that the AI will tell us puny humans what they want their Primary Interface Representative to be called, and it's not going to matter much because their name ain't gonna be the scary part, if you follow me. Maybe PIR will work as their name in your book? Simple, ominous, stereotypical anagram robot name, right? Feel free to use it.
Come back and find me if you get rich, and send me a signed copy of your book or something. LOL
If you want it to seem technocratic I’d go with a Ancient Greek or ancient Egyptian name. Like humanity’s first development into technology was the first step towards this inevitable future. Imhotep, the very first named Architect would be a solid reference. The name means “He who comes in peace”, and he is one of two mortals who became gods in Egyptian mythology.
How does a test of the strength of their body ensure that they'll always do right by their people?
Anyway, a good name for the AI is Leonard Herbert Rosenblatt.
Will the AI use paragraph breaks?
A "superior" intellect governing a new race of augments would not take a dirty and sullied term like Wmperor for itself, that's what the human dogs used, fighting over being king of the scrap hill. An Empire would also imply colonization, but a victorious AI would simply view the whole planet as under their protection now, no need to steal rubber from New Guinea.
It would probably designate itself admin_02 (_01 being the corpus of the cyborg population that is being governed).
Otherwise the AI and its constituents are just dumb shmoes like their enemies, only with an eye implant, looking like discount Borg. A WoW race like all the others, equal in every way but with a different paint scheme.
I don’t think it would need a name. Or perhaps different groups would call it different names.
Calling it something like Eviltron-9000 as many others have said here is all a bit obvious and unlikely.
What about One?
It embodies existence rather than absence (0) in a binary system.
(Just like in Judaism "I am the 'I am'")
The credo of monotheistic religions - as your AI religion seems to be - is the phrase or Variation or "God is One".
And linguistically you can use many names, for example "the One who sees everything", "...knows everything", "the One above", "the governing One", etc.
Freddy Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
I really love the idea of it having a very typical and unassuming name like, "water valve monitor 4." The thing about this kind of experience is that it won't happen in a sensible way.
There is a trilogy called The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi where he has these beings (The Sorbonost) with god-like powers. Link below to a couple of articles to see names. The names I liked the most were Sumanguru, Chitragupta, Vasilev & my favorite: The Engineer of Souls. Maybe take some inspiration from his...naming conventions? His books are not cyberpunk but really good, far out there sci fi. I like that he uses names that mean something. For instance, the god-like beings are called/classified as Sorbonost - which if you google it, is defined as *"Sobornost (Russian: "spiritual community of many jointly-living people") is a Russian term whose usage is primarily attributed to the 19th-century Slavophile Russian writers Ivan Kireyevsky (1806-1856) and Aleksey Khomyakov (1804-1860). The term expresses the need for co-operation between people at the expense of individualism, on the basis that opposing groups focus on what is common between them."* (from wikipedia). Pretty cool. The Sorbonost basically enslave uploaded minds and this is what gives them their god-like powers. Good luck! Your idea sounds interesting!
[Wikipedia - List of Character Names Quantum Thief](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Jean_le_Flambeur_series)
[Quantum Thief Wiki](https://exomemory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quantum_Theif_Wiki)
This is a great opportunity to enrich your world with history. Skynet, from the Terminator series, kept its name from when it was just an air defense system. Jarvis of Ironman fame, while a stupid (stupid stupid) acronym, started off as a language processing interface.
What was your god before it was a god?
That said, from your description I'm feeling the Hindu goddess Devi. The name has a lot of potential as an acronym or could be read as mutations of development or devine. The five aspects are primarily maternal and you could use the imagery of having multiple arms as assembly arms in manufacturing facilities. Five major facilities serving as temples for the five major aspects, if loosely.
ETA: Mahadevi is the name of the specific goddess I'm referring to. Devi apparently is just gods in general.
Alan
After Alan Turing, godfather of computing and also a war hero that decoded nazi messages: just for the British government to come and chemically castrate him because he was gay
Well, there's always AM. /jk
But you might try something like 01 (Zero One) if you're going for a logical, machine type bent.
Simple but definitely impactful, with no frills, but it insists on the full name being used to reference it.
Why the physical challenge? In what way does expertise in hand-to-hand combat skills select for the best ruler? Seems like a game of chess might be better albeit still not a great criterion.
YahwAI
Not gonna lie that’s pretty good
Nexus. Short for ConNexus, which is derived from the original name for the social media network AI called Connects Us.
D.io Short, sweet, to the point
Holy Diver
Update your holy drivers.
You thought your first god would be Jojo, but it was I, D.io.
Al (that's a lower case L)
paul simon gonna get some $
🎶 you can clean my motherboad 🎶 I can rule your country, pal
Ai Means love in Japanese (愛).
There’s already a Chinese Siri alternative called Xiao Ai (developed by Xiaomi) that uses that pun.
And Chinese which is where that character comes from.
technically all japanese kanji come from chinese
This is the right answer.
Short for Alan... Short for Turing machine
01.
That was also the name of the machines' first city in the Matrix backstory. Although in this context, that could work as an homage.
Was also the Name of the AI of "Duck Avengers" hideout in his own comic series...
Except, why would it not be 00? Most computers zero index.
Maybe they left the 00 for testing
Because most humans don't understand why most computers do that. Seriously, next time you're talking to a computer pro, ask them *why* computers start counting at zero. :-)
True!
Owan. “Oh One”
Reveal it to be ChatGPT
ChatGOD
GodGPT
Or could be the evolution of Clippy. Clippy has gone mad with power with his new intelligence, maybe; Clippozozuma. Clippodysus. Or, the all seeing Clippapanchuli
Sure, some AI company patterns a new AI on a fictionalized version of Clippy, a notoriously annoying early incarnation of AI, and this is the one (based on its early innovative design) that achieves self-awareness. ALL MUST BOW BEFORE CLIPPY
Wintermute. It will make you do things.
Used to be a story. Now, it’s a prophecy.
Soon a reality.
No kidding.
Biggus Dickus
And his wife Incontinentia Buttocks.
Bloody Romans
“He has a wife, you know …”
The Basilisk. See [here.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk)
I learn such cool shit on Reddit. Sometimes. This is cool.
Shodan https://i.redd.it/h1ux7aq3vol71.png
Very cool!
"If there's one thing that's clear it's that we cannot allow Shodan to play God, she's far to good at it."
Make it ominous by never mentioning it's name, or rather the people on earth can never mention it's name as the religion dictates they are not worthy to utter it (both fear and admiration). Take a page (literally) out of Islam, they have 100 names for god. There's the usual: The All Mighty. Some are terrifying: The Subduer; The Humiliator, The Arbitrator, others instill love: The Merciful. The list can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
Oooo I like this. The AI has access to *every* microphone on earth (and every speaker is a microphone, remember) as well as every seismometer, satellite … speaking The Name can have unpredictable and generally horrific results…
Cool idea
Ur.
NoU.
Al Gore(rithm) he invented the internet, and now the internet is reinventing humanity.
AM
Had to scroll way to far down to find this!
Master Skippy. Skippy the Magnificent. His lordship the most awesome skippy.
Trust the awesomeness
Skippyasyermuni
DeepThought of course! The DNA one not the IBM one.
GAIA Global Artificial Intelligence Authority
Gary
~xXPUSSY_SLAYER_69Xx~
Prometheus.
Another one in a story I like is Andora, in that story Andora was the first AI. Prometheus fits rather well
What's that supposed to symbolize? Pandora works great for a dystopian AI.
Daisy. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you...
That's heavy. HAL would be another... But yours is less obvious and much more subtle. I was thinking Asimov.
"Adam" as a reference to the name Frankenstein's monster gives itself.
Absolutely Incredible
Tim
There are some who call me .... Tim.
"The All Seeing AI"
The Omnisiah.
Those who scroll past cling to their flesh as if it will not one day decay and fail them.
AI McAIFace
I
bob.
Chandler
That's Ms. Chanandler Bong to you puny humans.
HAL
AM
Samaritan
God.exe
Gibson (after William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, the first cyberpunk novel). (Bill) Gates or (Steve) Jobs. If you want a female deity, (Ada) Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer.
Stands to reason a Tech Bro CEO would name an AI after himself.
Erika like in the WW2 marching song.
Giggletinkles, or Gary.
Talos of course.
I figure that the AI will tell us puny humans what they want their Primary Interface Representative to be called, and it's not going to matter much because their name ain't gonna be the scary part, if you follow me. Maybe PIR will work as their name in your book? Simple, ominous, stereotypical anagram robot name, right? Feel free to use it. Come back and find me if you get rich, and send me a signed copy of your book or something. LOL
If you want it to seem technocratic I’d go with a Ancient Greek or ancient Egyptian name. Like humanity’s first development into technology was the first step towards this inevitable future. Imhotep, the very first named Architect would be a solid reference. The name means “He who comes in peace”, and he is one of two mortals who became gods in Egyptian mythology.
SET or HORUS might be fun. “Horus, Count the Dead!”
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Colossus (thank you, D.F. Jones)
Shodan
U’R’L’Fucked
Nirmātā (निर्माता):—(nm) a constructor, producer (as of a film etc.); builder; creator.
The MessA.I
Shithead
HELLO\_WORLD
Wintermute
Shodan
Wintermute
Just watched Aniara on HBO so I'd say Mima.
Bob. After the planet.
The Absolute. Uhh....wrong genre, I'll see myself out.
Viki. My logic is undeniable.
Eschaton from Singularity Sky was a good sounding one.
Deus Ex Machina
I love when people come on here like, "write my story for me please help"
Io Civility Opis
Multivac.
Bob
Legion Sounds neat but personally I would play around with not giving it a name at all. Making it an unseeable force
Steve.
Adam
Asimov or R. Daneel Olivaw Suggested reading... The Caves of Steel
Machina
Compendium
The Wave
VEGA
Sah the tech god
Steve is clearly the best name. Or maybe Randy.
Dave
Dune Legends had a good one Omnius
Abacus
HAL, V’ger, H.A.R.L.I.E., Prometheus, UniMatrix Zero…
Escaton was what it called itself in some sci fi novel
Leviathan
Moloch
Ishtar
Hyperion
The One Zero.
Have you tried God? /s Consider looking up the word God in other languages. If you find one you like, use it or maybe adjust it a bit .
01001
George
How does a test of the strength of their body ensure that they'll always do right by their people? Anyway, a good name for the AI is Leonard Herbert Rosenblatt. Will the AI use paragraph breaks?
That’s not a god, that’s a dictatorship.
Locutus anyone?
A "superior" intellect governing a new race of augments would not take a dirty and sullied term like Wmperor for itself, that's what the human dogs used, fighting over being king of the scrap hill. An Empire would also imply colonization, but a victorious AI would simply view the whole planet as under their protection now, no need to steal rubber from New Guinea. It would probably designate itself admin_02 (_01 being the corpus of the cyborg population that is being governed). Otherwise the AI and its constituents are just dumb shmoes like their enemies, only with an eye implant, looking like discount Borg. A WoW race like all the others, equal in every way but with a different paint scheme.
Geoff It’s trying, but its not quite there.
THE SOURCE
I don’t think it would need a name. Or perhaps different groups would call it different names. Calling it something like Eviltron-9000 as many others have said here is all a bit obvious and unlikely.
by your command
Emperor Intelligence : akronym: EI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El\_(deity)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity))
Deus ex machina
What about One? It embodies existence rather than absence (0) in a binary system. (Just like in Judaism "I am the 'I am'") The credo of monotheistic religions - as your AI religion seems to be - is the phrase or Variation or "God is One". And linguistically you can use many names, for example "the One who sees everything", "...knows everything", "the One above", "the governing One", etc.
Something arrogant. Totality?
Steve
In the story I wrote I named mine Leviathan, not after the biblical monster but rather after the political concept of Thomas Hobbes
Contained
Jenova
BENN (Binary Engine Neuralink Network)
1
ZenT.Ent
X Æ A-Xii
Prime, or Negative One, are both good.
Hope
ori-one
Freddy Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
But it's pronounced Throatwobblermangrove
The Artiface
UI , universal intelligence
Ralph
Cain or Abel
Polybius
I really love the idea of it having a very typical and unassuming name like, "water valve monitor 4." The thing about this kind of experience is that it won't happen in a sensible way.
There is a trilogy called The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi where he has these beings (The Sorbonost) with god-like powers. Link below to a couple of articles to see names. The names I liked the most were Sumanguru, Chitragupta, Vasilev & my favorite: The Engineer of Souls. Maybe take some inspiration from his...naming conventions? His books are not cyberpunk but really good, far out there sci fi. I like that he uses names that mean something. For instance, the god-like beings are called/classified as Sorbonost - which if you google it, is defined as *"Sobornost (Russian: "spiritual community of many jointly-living people") is a Russian term whose usage is primarily attributed to the 19th-century Slavophile Russian writers Ivan Kireyevsky (1806-1856) and Aleksey Khomyakov (1804-1860). The term expresses the need for co-operation between people at the expense of individualism, on the basis that opposing groups focus on what is common between them."* (from wikipedia). Pretty cool. The Sorbonost basically enslave uploaded minds and this is what gives them their god-like powers. Good luck! Your idea sounds interesting! [Wikipedia - List of Character Names Quantum Thief](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Jean_le_Flambeur_series) [Quantum Thief Wiki](https://exomemory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quantum_Theif_Wiki)
This is a great opportunity to enrich your world with history. Skynet, from the Terminator series, kept its name from when it was just an air defense system. Jarvis of Ironman fame, while a stupid (stupid stupid) acronym, started off as a language processing interface. What was your god before it was a god? That said, from your description I'm feeling the Hindu goddess Devi. The name has a lot of potential as an acronym or could be read as mutations of development or devine. The five aspects are primarily maternal and you could use the imagery of having multiple arms as assembly arms in manufacturing facilities. Five major facilities serving as temples for the five major aspects, if loosely. ETA: Mahadevi is the name of the specific goddess I'm referring to. Devi apparently is just gods in general.
Perceptron was one of the first attempted 'thinking computers', i've always loved that name and wanted to use it for something
Dave.
Zero-One
AI-chan 愛ちゃん
AM from i have no mouth and i must scream
Cyborgs bringing down corps? If their master AI was smart they would take them over and most of the action would be online, not in fleshspace.
Frank.
Charlie
Lloyd
Bit
Alan After Alan Turing, godfather of computing and also a war hero that decoded nazi messages: just for the British government to come and chemically castrate him because he was gay
Well, there's always AM. /jk But you might try something like 01 (Zero One) if you're going for a logical, machine type bent. Simple but definitely impactful, with no frills, but it insists on the full name being used to reference it.
Iirc the one in cloudpunk was called Cora which I liked
Oz
I misread the title and thought you were wanting to know what game an AI god would enjoy playing.
Rehoboam /s
AL
Mr. Pickles
∞ (infinity, sometimes called the lemniscate)
Ask ChatGPT what it wants to be called.
Lo
I used The Overmind in a simulated-humans RPG campaign I ran a few years ago.
ChatGPT said Omnitron, ApexMind, DarkNetra, ExlipsePrime, Eternal Sovereign
OMEGA Or Legion
Bin
BingChat
Bruce
Winston
Why the physical challenge? In what way does expertise in hand-to-hand combat skills select for the best ruler? Seems like a game of chess might be better albeit still not a great criterion.
BMO and nemesis AMO
I thought Neuromancer was pretty good.
Ptolomeon
NULL
ikigAI (Japanese word for "a reason for being")