# Trope-a-Day: Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence

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**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/trope-a-day-sliding-scale-of-robot-intelligence/1632 "2024-11-04T08:09:22Z")\
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**_[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence?ref=eldraeverse.com):_** All of it.&nbsp; Much of the automation, autofac segments, and other component-type robots are _bricks.&nbsp;_ Utility spiders and other functional motiles are _robo-monkeys_.&nbsp; More sophisticated robots, like the coordinating members of a pack of utility spiders, are idiot-savant _average joe androids_.&nbsp; Thinkers and digisapiences are _Nobel-bots_, which puts them on a similar level to people augmented with the usual intelligence-augmentation technology.&nbsp; And, of course, the Transcend, its archai, and certain other major systems qualify as _Dei Ex Machinis_.

This is, of course, complicated via networking (all those bricks and robo-monkeys are part of/under the command of more sophisticated systems all the time), the existence of systems which are themselves parts of other systems, and so forth, but is true enough for approximation.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2015/10/12/trope-a-day-sliding-scale-of-robot-intelligence](https://eldraeverse.com/2015/10/12/trope-a-day-sliding-scale-of-robot-intelligence)

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**Comments migrated from WordPress:**

> [@Gryfuth \<gcman2011@yahoo.com\> on 2016-05-17 20:59:16 wrote](#):
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> I realize this is very pedantic, but incorrect Latin grammar always bugs me, I’m this case, using Machinae(nominative) instead of correct Machinis(ablative).
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> > [@Alistair Young \<athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net\> on 2016-05-27 15:00:45 wrote](#):
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> > _headdesk_
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> > My, that’s embarrassing for a former classicist! Thanks, glad you caught it.

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