Citations:syntellect

Noun

 * 1)  An artificial intelligence, an AI interface.
 * 2) * 2002, Laura J. Mixon, Burning the Ice, pages 19 and 151:
 * The syntellect occasionally donned an avatar (a virtual projection) or a proxy (a humanoid waldo) and made an appearance, but sightings hadn't been all that common in the past few seasons.
 * So much for that. Either ur-Carli really couldn't monitor her in here, or it didn't care about the corpse. There you go, anthropomorphizing a computer program again. A syntellect was nothing but a set of digital processes. Algorithms.
 * 1) * 2001, Laura J. Mixon, At Tide's Turning, in Worldmakers: SF adventures in terraforming (Gardner Dozois), page 441:
 * The syntellect told her, "The colony is on emergency rations. No one may have more than six chips' worth of dinner." Manda wasn't surprised; the destruction of the gardens was an extremely serious loss. The colony might not survive it.
 * The syntellect told her, "The colony is on emergency rations. No one may have more than six chips' worth of dinner." Manda wasn't surprised; the destruction of the gardens was an extremely serious loss. The colony might not survive it.