Emergent intelligence (EI) as a term comes from a variation of artificial intelligence (AI) wherein an entity comes into being organically in an artificial realm. A being may create the circumstances for an EI’s creation but without a direct hand in it.
Examples from fiction include the Puppet Master from the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell and ISOs from the sequel to Tron, Tron: Legacy.
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