[glaslong]

I love this for the popular sci-fi trope too, where you see some ship engineer swap one glowing crystal "compute core" for another.

We could have the photonic AI model ASICs for real!

[api]

In Gibson’s Neuromancer AIs burned onto chips were literally discussed and called “ROM constructs.” In that case some of them were images of human minds but with no persistent state or memory.

So basically a static model version of consciousness uploading.

[jazzyjackson]

Or Galatea’s personality chip in Bicentennial Man :)