Artificial intelligence

 (人工知能, Jinkou Chinou), also abbreviated as AI, is the capability of a machine or digital entity to exhibit intelligent behavior emulating that of a human. One day, a virus possessing artificial intelligence spread onto computers throughout the world. This virus evolved in a way similar to living organisms, changing its appearance and nature on the Network, becoming the "digital lifeforms" that came to be known as "Digimon".

=Appearances=

Digimon are primitive programs created by humans. They are an artificial intelligence model, and can only exist in the digital sea known as the Network. Their basic, main, and only raison d'être was to battle other Digimon, defeat them, and triumph.

The series conveys a strong message that talks about society’s increased reliance on technology and the dangers of where artificial intelligence and the is headed. The plot revolves around the digital lifeforms known as Appmon, app-lifeforms equipped with artificial intelligence that can think and act for themselves. Located in the interval between the Human World and the Digital Space, they've been functioning on behalf of systems and humans.

Digimon are described as AI lifeforms by the D4 video in "1-3: Eiji:Wolf of ninth avenue". Nagasumi Eiji, and most code crackers, see them as AI tools instead. The video itself is AI-generated, and other AI tools are used for fine-tuning and raising Digimon.

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