I knew it because the computer that ran and guided my ship was not a self-aware machine like that of the Peace Victory, but a part of myself.

I didn't think twentieth-century science could construct a self-aware machine.

Questions of where technology may be heading, what constitutes life and death, and the morality of creating self-aware machines to serve, or sometimes replace, humans, are raised.

Books and papers littered the floor, and the screen of the computer terminal blinked in the way self-aware machines have when their memories are ripped out or scrambled.

Bogart is a fully autonomous machine, self-aware, intelligent and possessing his own unique personality.

When we've dealt with self-aware machines before, Spock, their motives have always been for self-preservation.

Without the self-referencing participles described in Mother-of-Numbers's famous dissertation/play/ equations, the technology for self-aware machines would not have come about.

If so, then the arrival of self-aware machines will not happen until after the development of hardware that is substantially more powerful than humans' natural equipment.

Sentient machines - self-aware machines that have human-level intelligence - are the ultimate of AI creation.

"A self-aware machine," Dr. Roman qualified, "with more thinking capacity than any of us."