Occasionally the tone of the hyperintelligent narrator blurs the distinctions between the characters.
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After a while, the record feels less like a subversion of pop tropes than like a hyperintelligent narration of them.
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It worked largely thanks to Ms. Bloom, who gave us a character both damaged and self-aware, hyperintelligent enough to outsmart herself.
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This was a highly sensitive, hyperintelligent person who, while wanting very much to help the artist, never wanted to cause pain or humiliation to any other human being.
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What grounds all DeWitt's brilliance and game-playing is the way that she dramatizes a certain kind of hyperintelligent rationalism and probes its irregular distribution of blindness and insight.
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Finally, this is not about pathological examples such as hyperintelligent paper-clip factories that destroy all of humanity in single-minded efforts to optimize production at the expense of all other goals.
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Brain is a hyperintelligent, short-tempered straight man voiced by a guy doing a stentorian Orson Welles impression; Pinky is daffy and sweet and speaks in an over-the-top Cockney accent.
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In the 1960s and '70s, the hyperintelligent robot was distinctly mechanical: HAL 9000 maintained his detached, metallic voice even as he feared death; a worried C-3PO clanked along like a walking mannequin.
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Naturally everyone wants to think it's spaceships or planets full of hyperintelligent broadcasters sending out signals to us, though of course they would have had to send them a long, long time ago.
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In any incarnation, the Guide follows a befuddled and homeless earthling named Arthur Dent as he tries to navigate a universe filled with hyperintelligent but depressed androids, sentient mattresses, multiple dimensions, extremely bad customer service, and so on and so forth.
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Writers devise beings ever more distant from Asimov's metal men with positronic brains: in Ted Chiang's novella " The Lifecycle of Software Objects ," hobbyists raise (and occasionally abuse) sentient pets, called "digients," in virtual ecosystems; in Spike Jonze's film " Her ," a hyperintelligent virtual assistant manifests only as a voice; in the near-future Zambia of Namwali Serpell's " The Old Drift ," swarms of mosquito-like microdrones inject vaccines.
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Theodore and Samantha reconcile. Samantha expresses her desire to help Theodore overcome his fear, and reveals that she has compiled the best of his letters (written for others) into a book which a publisher has accepted. Theodore takes Samantha on a vacation during which she tells him that she and a group of other AIs have developed a "hyperintelligent" OS modeled after the British philosopher Alan Watts. Theodore panics when Samantha briefly goes offline.
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Dave Simpson from The Guardian, in his review of the concert held at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, favoured Shakira's charisma and bold sexuality, noting that it is "upfront and yet nowhere near as overt as a Christina Aguilera or Madonna". He described Shakira's approach towards the performances during the show, saying that she "gives everything to the performance while revealing nothing", and that she appears to be "simultaneously like a hyperintelligent pop mastermind and an overawed little girl having tremendous fun".
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They beam over and discover that the "Balok" on their monitor was a dummy. The real Balok, looking like a hyperintelligent human child, enthusiastically welcomes them aboard. He explains that he was merely testing the Enterprise and its crew to discover their true intentions. As Kirk and company relax, Balok expresses a desire to learn more about humans and their culture, and suggests they allow a member of their crew to remain on his ship as an emissary of the Federation.
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Has been decapitated and dismembered a number of times (and, on one occasion, actually buried). Longtime poker buddies with Stan, whom he mistakenly calls Satan, who makes convincingly good hummus dip. ; Fish/Fineas : Once a simple goldfish who lived in a mug of beer, "Fish" has evolved dramatically during the series. His other personality, Fineas, is a hyperintelligent immortal cyborg assassin created when Gregor Mendel kidnapped Fish and implanted a USB 1.1 port on the back of his neck, connecting directly to his brain.
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This computer is actually the planet Earth, which was constructed by the Magratheans, and was five minutes away from finishing its task and figuring out the Ultimate Question when the Vogons destroyed it. The hyperintelligent superbeings participated in the program as mice, performing experiments on humans while pretending to be experimented on. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to see his friends, who are at a feast hosted by Trillilan's pet mice. They reject the idea of building a new Earth to start the process over and offer to buy Arthur's brain in case it contains the question, leading to a fight when he declines.
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Observer (also known as Brain Guy) is a fictional character in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series. He is played by Bill Corbett, and appears in the eighth through eleventh seasons of the series. Observer is a hyperintelligent, psychic alien from a planet of fellow aliens who confusingly all share the name "Observer" (the other two who appear in the series are played by Michael J. Nelson and Paul Chaplin). Supposedly, the Observers "evolved" beyond bodies into dark-green brains, contained in large Petri dishes (not unlike the Providers in the Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion").
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Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe, "His Fordship" Mustapha Mond presides over one of the ten zones of the World State, the global government set up after the cataclysmic Nine Years' War and great Economic Collapse. Sophisticated and good-natured, Mond is an urbane and hyperintelligent advocate of the World State and its ethos of "Community, Identity, Stability". Among the novel's characters, he is uniquely aware of the precise nature of the society he oversees and what it has given up to accomplish its gains. Mond argues that art, literature, and scientific freedom must be sacrificed to secure the ultimate utilitarian goal of maximising societal happiness.
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